Arizona republican., 1910-09-09

St Paul. Sept S-The committee on resolutions of the national con servation congress was in turmoil or verging on it all day today. Eventually the committee agreed to recommend a night session of the congress and d platform demanding national control of natural resources.
 The big fight of the committee meeting which, it was promised would be carried to the floor of the convention at the night session, con Cerned the mention of the name of Theodore Roosevelt as the originator of the policies recommended by the committee, and ignoring that of Mir Taft.
 The sessions of the committee were executive, but reports of the warfare leaked out. Violent speeches were made. demanding that the policies advocated by the congress not only were those of Roosevelt, but those of President Taft and that the name of the latter should be specifically men toned.
 This occurred during the afternoon when there were but eighteen mem bers of the committee present, under the chairmanship of ex-GOvernor Pardee of California. The vote to include the name of President Taft was lost. s to 10.
 A new attempt was then made t" eliminate what was said to be an i'm justice to the president and after three ballots a motion to eliminate the name of Roosevelt also carried.
 The resolution as adopted by the committee follows:
 The second national conservation congress, made up of delegates from nearly every state and territory of the United States met at the call of a great moral issue in session assembled at St Paul, does hereby adopt and solemnly declare the fol- lowing platform of opinion and con clusion concerning the inherent right of the people of the United States.
 Heartily accepting the spirit and intent of the constitution and ad- herring to the principals laid down by Washington and Lincoln, we de- clare our conviction that we live a the people. for the people, and we repudiate any and all special or local interests or platforms or policies in conflict with the inherent rights and sovereign will of our people.
 Recognizing the natural resources of the country as the prime basis of property and opportunity. we hold the rights of the people in these resources to be national and inherent and justly inalienable and indefen- sible and we insist that the resources should and shall be developed, used and conserved in ways consistent both with current welfare and per petuity to the people.
 Recognizing the waters of the country as a great natural resource we approve and endorse the opinion that all the waters belong to all the people and hold that they should be used in the interest of the people
 "Realizing that all parts of each drainage basin are related and inter dependent, we hold that each stream should be regarded and treated as a unit from it's source to its mouth; and since the waters are essentially mobile and transitory and are gen erallv interstate we hold that in all cases of divided or doubtful iuris- diction, the waters should be admin istered by cooperation between state and federal agencies
 Recognizing the interdependence of the various uses of the waters of the country. we hold that primary uses are for domestic supply and for agri- culture, through irrigation or other wise. and that the uses for naviga- tion and for power, in which water is not consumed, are secondary; and we commend the modern view that each use of the waters should be made with reference to all other uses for public welfare in accordance with the principle of the greatest good to tine greatest nGmber for the longest time.
 "Viewing the purity of the water suppIy as essential to the public health and general welfare, we urge upon all municipal. state and federal authorities and on individuals ana corporations requisite action toward purifying and preventing the contami- nation of the water supply.
 Approving the successful efforts of the United States to provide homes on arid lands through irrigation, we endorse and commend the reclama- ton service and urge its continuance and the extension of the same policy to the drainage of swamp and over