Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-14
.IRRIGATlONISTS
SELECT PUEBLO
FORCONVENTION
NEXT MEETING OF NATIONAL
CONGRESS IN COLORADO
EFFORTS OF FORESTER PINcHoT
ARE COMMENDED
Arlzonan Is Elected as President and
Other Officers Are Chosen Unani-
mousIy-Bond Issue for I'M
provements Urged
lRv Associated PressO

~ POKANE, WASH, Aug. 13.-With
~ the election of officers the selec-
! ~ selection of Pueblo, Colo, as the
next meeting place, the passage of reso-
lutions commencing both the efforts of
| Pinchot and Newell in the forestry and
reclamation bureaus. asking SlO,OO0.-
| 600 irrigation fund from congress and
commencing the Mississippi deep water
way, the Seventeenth National Irriga-
| ton congress came to practical adj
| journment tonight.
There will be no session tomorrow
unless John Barrett, director OF the
! bureau of American republics, arrives
| to deliver promised address. Inc
| business planned for tomorrow was all
| transacted today and nothing is lett
except formal adjournment.
The following officers in addition TO
the election of B. A. Fowler of Phoenix,
Ariz., president, and Arthur Hooker,
| Spokane, secretary, as reported several
days ago, were today elected unani-
mously
Vice pre9ident, Ralph, Twitchell, New
Mexico.
second. vice president r. w. Young,
Utah.
Third vice president, D. L. Newman,
| Montana.
Fourth vice president F. w. Flem-
ing, New Mexico
| Fifth vice president, E. j. watson,
South Carolina.
Harry d. Loveland of San Francisco
made a seconding speech in support OF
the report of the committee on per-
manent organization, in which ne SAID
that san Francisco withdrew from The
fight for the next convention but made
a general invitation to stand until
such time as the congress saw fit to
accept.
Gains Victory
Col John l. Martin of st. Louis
gained the only victory in the resolu-
tions which were reported and adopted
at the morning session. A short fight
was made on the proposition to com
mend the deep waterways project be-
cause other waterways were neglected.
But as the Mississippi project is one
for the general betterment of the ma
tion the motion to strike out the IN
dorsement was withdrawn and unan-
imous vote passed the resolutions.
| The resolutions commencing. the
Newell and Pinchot administrations OF
the bureaus of reclamations and for
estry were general, not even mention
ing the chiefs of these divisions.
John /. Martin of ST. Louis, repre-
| senting w. X. KaVanaugh, president of
the Lakes -to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways
association, urged a bond issue in aid
of the deep waterway project today be-
fore the national irrigation congress.
His plea for the assistance" of the
congress in obtaining this bond issue
was greeted with applause, and it IS
| believed that resolution will be
adopted governing the waterways
project to the extent that a bond issue
be asked for.
The congress this morning received
the governors of a number of western
states who will speak on the irrigation
question this afternoon. John L. Mat
| thews delivered an address on deeD
waterways for the interior empire. He
told of the work which has been donB
on the lower Mississippi and of the
trip over the lower river taken by
former President Roosevelt.
Asks $1o,ooo,ooo Appropriation
An annual appropriation of 10000,
900 for a period of five years to aid in
! irrigation work. is asked of congress
! in resolutions adopted by the national
| irrigation congress today.
This is perhaps the most important
accommodation in the resolutions
adopted, of which the following is
i synopsis:
THAT homesteaders under a govern
ment project shall not be required ID
establish a residence before the gov
ernment is prepared to furnish him
with wtaer
"That the government take measures
to drain swamp lands in aid of land
reclamation and of public health.
THAT the irrigation congress aid,
to bring about waterway improve
ments, reforestation drainage and 9TH
er like projects.
"That there be brought about sur
veys and estimates of reclamation of
submerged lands where the work is in
ternational in character" CThis re-
fers to northern Idaho more specifical-
ly2). -,-..-.
ed to Hawaii.
"That the states pass laws regulat-
ing cutting of public and private tim
ber.
"That there should be no political
lines with reference to the use of water
for irrigation.
THAT the Mississippi deep waterway
be developed.
Big Bond Issue Turned Down
i The committee turned down the res
i olution asking a $1,000 600 bond issue
| after severe debate in which some OF
the washington delegation upheld the
| measure.
No hint of the Ballinger-P -Pinchot diff
i ficulty came up in committee.
Col Martin represented the deep
waterways project before the congress
! in the absence of w. K. Kavanaugh,
president of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep
Waterways association. He gave an
outline of what was expected as a re-
| suit of the proposed 14-foot main trunk
waterway. John Il. Matthews was also
a speaker on the subject of waterways.
The afternoon was given over to ad
dresses by governors of the states OF
! Florida, South Dakota, Idaho Wash
! ington, Nebraska and Montana Gov
ernor Shallenberger of Nebraska made
a stirring appeal for the conservation
Iof resources, which was greeted with
continued applause He had with him
considerable delegation of both men
| and women.
Governor Gilchrist of Florida gained
the applause of the congress by an
appeal for the abolishment of Mason
and Dixon's line, and by the designa
! tion of the south as a sleeping giant
now awake" Governor Brady of Idaho
commended both Secretary Batlinger
| and Clifford Pinchot and urged that oil