Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-16
WILL MEET THURSDAY
International Conference on
Natural Resources.
TO GREET THE PRESIDENT
Regular Sessions Will Be Held at
State Department.
FOREIGN DELEGATES EXPECTED
Interests to Be Considered From the
Viewpoint of the General Wei
fare of the Continent. "a.
DELEGATES EXPECTED
BY WILLIAM Z. CURTIS

BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald.
An international conference for the con-
servation of natural resources. which
is to be held in Washington next Thurs
day is In the same line that which
met last May at the White House with
delegates from nearly, ali the states. 1t
was suggested by Clifford Pinchot, for
ester of the Agricultural Department,
who has interested the President and 9TH
er public men in the adoption of a policy
and the organization of a movement
which shall arrest the enormous wastage
and destruction of the natural wealth of
this country. 1t will be remembered that
commission was appointed by the Presi-
dent after the May convention to study
the subject more closely and to make a
general report, which was submitted to
Congress in January last. AS a result
of the May conference the governors of
thirty-six states and territories have
appointed local conservation commissions.
and the national commission. of which Mr..
P1nchot is chairman, now devising ways
and means for effective cooperation be-
tween all these organizations and similar
ones in Mexico and Canada.
Foreign Delegates.
The international conference will be
attended by delegates from Canada and
Mexico. The former country will be rep
resented by the Hon. Sydney Fisher. min
lister of agriculture of the Dominion; the
Hon. Clifford Sifton. ex-minister Of the
interior. under whose administration
many of the regulations concerning the
protection of Canada's resources were
adopted. and DR.. Henri S. Beland men,
Der of the Canadian parliament. who is
we'll known authority on these subjects.
The Canadian delegation will also be ac-
companied by Robert E. Young land ex-
pert in the Canadian department of the
interior. who will act as its secretary.
To represent Mexico, President Diaz
has sent Romulo Escobar. Manuel A. De
Quevedo and Carlos Sellerier. Senior Es-
cobar. who heads the delegation. is one
of the foremost authorities in Mexico on
the agriculture of the country. He has
been at different times minister of the de-
ment of forestry. With his brother he
edits the farm paper. Ell Agricultor Next
cano. and presented a paper on "Agri-
culture in Mexico at the time of the
St. Louis exposition. Senior Quevedo is
the present minister of forestry
Reception by the President.
The President will receive the Canadian
and Mexican commissioners at 10 O'Clock
Thursday morning in the east room of
the White House. The members of the
cabinet and of the national conservation
commission will be present. This session
will be informal and brief. At it's conclu-
sion the conferees will proceed to the
diplomatic room of the State Department. |
where the regular sessions will be held. |
1t is probable that the remainder of tho |
morning will be taken up with formal
addresses of welcome and responses Of |
the visitors. In the afternoon the confer |
ence will take up its work in earnest It |
Is expected that the sessions will continue |
the remainder Of the week. The evenings
of the foreign delegates will be very fully |
occupied with various social functions |
that have been arranged by their compa- |
triots and government officers in Wash |
ington.
Canada has already taken active steps |
In preparation for the conference and re- |
Gently sent to the national conservation |
commission a number of carefully pre-
pared maps which show the present |
status of the public lands Of the Domn-
ion as we'll as the distribution Of the |
principal natural resources and the devel- |
opment of it's transportation systems. The |
Canadian authorities have also sent |
comprehensive collection of government |
documents bearing on the natural re-
sources of the country, carefully indeXed |
and bound together according to subjects. |