The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-18
To CONF En- On
CONSERVATION
Governors and Representatives
of Executives Arrived in
City Wednesday.
CONFERENCE BEGINS
AT 1890 A. NJ. THURSDAY
Delegation Comes From st. Paul
to Urge Attendance at
Congress There.


which opens in this city today (Thurs-
day. governors and representatives OF
governors from northwestern and inter
mountain states arrived In salt Lake
city Wednesday evening and took NJ
quarters at the Knutsford. Among them
nre Governor NJ h. Hay Of Olympia.
Wash; led Cowan OF the board oil control
OF Olympia. Wash; c. n. Macarthur OF
Salem, Ore, speaker OF the house, rep
rescntins the governor Of Oregon; Acting
Governor Jay Bowcrman being unable 10
leave the state; Governor Is b. Brooks
OF Wyoming, J. f. Callbraith, represent
ing Governor Shafroth of Colorado; u; u
Wi;her OF Ely. New. representing GOV
crnor Dickerson;. Congressman julius
Kahn OF San Francisco, representing Gov
crnor Gilctt of California Governor
Norris of Montana cannot be present, as
the army engineers are at present III
his state Governor Brady and Senator
Borah of Idaho will arrive this morn
ing.
Added To this list party arrived from
ST. Paul. MINI. Wednesday evening, In
cluding Frank B. Kellogg, the terror or
the trusts" and special counsel depart
mcnt OF justice in prosecuting tho stand
ard oil and the Union Pacific c-Southern
Pacific merger, Ralph Wheelock. secre-
tary of and representing Governor coer-
hart OF Minnesota; j. Ii. Beck. secretary
of Jobbers' union. Reuben Warner OF inc
largest wholesale dry goods merchants
in ST Paul. These four are members or
the board of managers which has cnarSc
OF the details of the Conservation con-
grcss at st. Paul. and their purpose IN
coming here is to urge all western cover
nors To send delegates and they thenl-
selves attend the St. Paul congress, as
the report had been mooted abroad that
some OF them would absent themselves
from the gathering In the Minnesota CITY,
Governor Hay Nothing to Say.
When seen at the Knutsford Wednesday
evening Governor Hay said he had moth
ing To add In the letter he sent Governor
Spry which has already been made pub
lie. He did not care TO anticipate any
thing the conference would co OF outline
any plan until they met; He said In
Washington they were all conservation
lists. They believed In taking care or
what they had, but still believed In using
In this generation whatever they actually
needed.
t. y. Macarthur, representing Oregon s
chief executive did not care 10 discuss
The coming conference. He said, how
ever, that the people OF oregon are much
Interested in conservation and DelieVe
that conservation should be carried on
by western men, who knew western con-
ditions and not by lot OF theorists and
faddists in Washington, who know moth
Ing about the matter.
Congressman Kahn OF San Francisco
said he did not know that he was TO rep
resent Calfornia's executive at the con
ference until he arrived In Salt Lake He
came primarily, together with some
others, In the interests Of the Panama
Pacific exposition TO be held In San Fran
cisco III 1915. He felt personally, he said.
that the interests OF the west are identl-
cal and We must stand together and work
together for our mutual advantage ana
our mutual protection. when you con-
slider that in the house of representatives
the entire area west OF the Rockies, ana
including the states OF Colorado and
Wyoming there arc only twenty-one
members of the house, and that tn, the
rf rir pom n H.
nois and Ohio each has as many or more
than that in their single delegation, one
can readily understand how essential IT is
that we In the west should hold to-
gether.'
Ralph Wheelock Talks.
Coming now To the mission OF the
party from st. Paul. Ralph Wheelock:
representative OF Governor Eberhart said
their primary object In coming here avs
10 insure the attendance OF the west
ern governors at the st. Paul congress.
Our purpose is 10 clear UP any mis-
apprehension that may exist In their
minds ns 10 the plans for the congress.
Some western governors are afraid there
is Il frame-up in the programme. We
are prepared To show them that the pro-
gramme as now arranged gives them am
pie opportunity to present their side OF
the proposition, and there cannot be
any possibility considering the charac-
teToH ter of of ihS the other Of sde unfair
Commenting on the same subject. Jo-
seph II. Beck said. I'VE are very anx-
ious that the National Conservation
congress, which is 10 be held In our
city shall he a great success. not so
much in point OF attendance. Our view
OF the success of IL is to have the ques-
tion thoroughly discussed and that all
phases OF conservation he brought out.
so that the meeting shall be prinei-
pally educational The conservation con-
Eress is educational propaganda. II
has no government connection, no mat
ter what il does: II doesn't settle any
government policy; It can only discuss.
formulate and lead public sentiment. Our
view is that no intelligent public senti-
mcnt can be formed unless NIL sides TO
IL question about which there is any
controversy are brought out. We have
felt that some of the governors have not
fully understood the real situation. and
Ina smuch as we call ourselves western
ers-and VIC are westerners-we have
been very anxious that those states in
which the doctrine of conservation will
most apply should present their views.
mud that they might understand the
situation We have come out here to try
and elucidnte the situation and urge them
to be on hand"
President Taft will open the ST Paul
congress the. first day. September 3. and
Colonel Roosevelt will open the proceed
ings the second day.
The conference here today (Thursday)
begins at 1890 a, m. in the city and
county building.
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