Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
Forestry and Reclamation Bureau
Commended in Resolution.
OBJECT TO RESIDENCE CLAUSE
Living On Land Should Not Be Neces.
sary to Get Water.
FOWLER ELECTED PRESIDENT
Governors shaIIenbereer, Brady and
GiIchrist Make Addresses-Next
Meeting TO BE Held In
Pueblo.

SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 13.-With the
election of officers the selection Of Pueblo,
Colo. as the next meeting place, the pas
sage of resolutions commencing both the
efforts OF Pinchot and Newell in the for
estry and reclamation bureaus, asking a
glO,O00OOO irrigation fund from congress and
commencing the Mississippi deep water
ways. the seventh National Irrigation con-
gress practically ended today There will
be no session tomorrow, unless John Bar
rett, director of the bureau of American
republics, arrives to deliver a promised
address. The business planned for tomorrow
was all transacted today and nothing is
left except formal adjournment.
The resolutions commencing the Newell
and Pinchot administrations Of the bureau
OF irrigation and forestry were general, not
sven mentioning the chiefs of these
divisions.
Colonel Martin presented the deep water
ways project before the congress in the
absence OF w. q. Kavsnaugh, president of
the Lakes to- the-gulf Deep Waterway asso-
citation. He gave an outline of what is ex-
pected as a result of the proposed fourteen
foot main trunk waterway.
shaIIenberger Makes speech.
Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska ap-
pealed for the conservation of resources.
Governor Gichrist of Florida argued for
the abollshment of Mason and Dixon's line
and BY the designation OF the south as a
sleeping giant now awake"
Governor Brady of Idaho commended
both Secretary Ballinger and Clifford Pin
chot and urged that oil be poured on the
troubled waters in the interests of the
west.
An remaining traces of the Balllnger-
Pinchot hostilities disappeared on the last
day of the congress. with perhaps a mem
ton now and then by some kindly disposed
speaker.
The following officers, in addition to
II. a. Fowler of Poenix Ariz., president.
and Arthur Hooker, spokane secretary,
were chosen today;
Vice President Ralph Twitchel, New
s,,ond vice President-R w. Young.
Utah
Third vice President-L. Newman, Mon
Fourth vice President - F. w. Flem-
ming. New Mexico.
South Carolina.
Deep Waterways Commended.
Colonel John l. Martin OF st. Louis
gained the only victory i'm the resolution
adopted at the morning session. short
fight was made on the proposition TO
commend the deep waterways project in
view of the fact that other waterways
were neglected. But because the Missis-
sipp project is one Of the general bet
terment OF the nation, the motion to strike
out the Martin endorsement was with
drawn and by a unanimousl vote the reso'
lutions passed.
A synopsis of the resolutions adopted to-
day follows;
That homesteaders under a government
project shall not be required to establish
. residence before the government is pre-
pared 70 furnish him with water.
That the irrination congress aid will
other conservation organizations to brinl
about waterways improvements, reforesta
tion and other like projects
That the reclamation act be extended Il
Hawaii.
That the states pass laws regulating tn
cutting OF public and private timber.
That there should be no political line
with reference to the use of water for ir
rigation.
That the Mississippi deep waterway b.
developed.
The committee turned down the resolu
tion asking a S. 600 900 bond issue afte
severe debate in which some OF tn
Washington delegation upheld the meas
urS
NO hlnt OF the Ballinger- Rinchot dtffl
Guilty came up IN committee.
Addresses ny Three Governors.
Three governors of states in widely sep
arated portions OF the country Delivers
addresses at the irrigation congress ses
sion here this afternoon. They are Ha
OF Washington. Brady of Idaho and Gil
christ OF Florida.
The first subject taken up today, Ger
eral Purposes o: the Irrigation Congress,
was discussed from the platform by Ser
ator Hepburn ot Idaho.
Representative Ransdell OF Louisian,
president of the National Rivers and HaI
bors congress. followed Senator Heybur
IN discussion Of the general subject an
W. X. Kavanaugh. president Of the Lakes
to-the-0ulf Deep Waterway association
presented the case OF the middle ives
which ls endeavoring to secure nations
aid in deepening the channel Of the Missls
slppi river.
Prof. w. d. Lyman OF Whitman colleg
spoke on Deep Waterways for the InlaH
Empire"