New Ulm review., 1910-09-14
FEDERAL Con TROL
Endorsed by Delegates TO Con-
seIvation Congress.
TEXT OF THE RESOLUTIONS
Platform Follows Closely Recommen.
dations of Colonel Roosevelt
and Clifford Pinchot.

ST. Paul, Sept. 10.-The second Ma
tional Conservation congress, one of
the most notable gatherings ever held
in the United States, which was ad.
dressed by the president of the Unit
ed States, former president and
many other distinguished persons,
has ended. At it's closing session the
congress elected Henry Wallace, edi-
Cor of Wallace's Farmer. of Des
lfoines, president, to succeed Bernard
N. Baker Of Baltimore. Clifford Pin
chot declined the Office, which was Of
fered him unanimously.
The resolutions adopted advocate
federal control Of natural resources
and follow closely the ideas of Roose-
welt and Pinchot They are in part:
Recognizing the natural resources
of the country as the prime bases of
property and opportunity, we hold the
rights of the people in these resources
to be natural and inherent, and justly
inalienable and indefeasible; and we
insist that the resources should and
shall be developed, used and conserved
in ways consistent both with current
welfare and with the perpetuity of our
people.
Recognizing the waters of the coun-
try as great national resource we
approve and endorse the opinion Of
Theodore Roosevelt that all the wa
ters belong to all the people and hold
that they should be administered in
the interest of all the people,
Federal Control Of Water Power.
Recognizing the vast economic ben
eft to the people of water power de-
rived largely from Interstate and
source. streams no less than from nav
/ igable rivers, we favor federal control
| of water power development; we deny
! the right of state or federal govern
ments to continue alternating or con-
veying water by granting franchises
for the use thereof in perpetuity; and
we demand that the use of water
rights be permitted only for limited
| periods, with just compensation in the
interests of the people.
Approving the withdrawal of pub
/ lie lands pending classification, and
the separation of surface rights from
mineral, we recommend legislation for
i the classification and leasing for graz
ing purposes on unreserved public
lands suitable chiefly for this purpose,
subject to the rights of homesteaders
and settlers, or the acquisition thereof
under the land laws of the United
States; and we hold that arid and non.
irrigable public grazing lands should
be administered by the government in
the interest of small stockmen and
homeseekers until they have passed
into the possession of actual settlers
eve hold that the deposits of i'm
portant minerals, underlying public
lands, particularly mineral fuels, iron
ores and phosphate deposits, should
be leased for limited periods not ex
ceeding fifty years but subject to re
newal, the royalty to be adjusted al
more frequent intervals, such leases
to be in amounts and subject to such
regulations as to prevent monopoly
and unnecessary waste.
Lease Alaskan Coal Fields.
"We hold that phosphate deposits
underlying the public lands should be
safeguarded for the American people
by appropriate legislation; and W.
recommend the early opening of tht
Alaskan and other coal fields belong
ing to the people of the United State:
for commercial purposes on a system
! of leasing, national ownership to bt
retained.
"We approve of the continuance o
the control of the national forests b,
the federal government and approve
the policy Of restoring to settlemen
able for agriculture.
"We earnestly recommend that tn
| states and federal government acquir
for demonstration lands not more va
liable for other purposes and that al
existing forests publicly and privatel
owned be carefully protected by stat
and federal governments. We recoe
nize the invaluable services of the fol
est service to the people and earnestl
recommend that it be more generous
" supported by the federal govern
ment and that state, federal and pr
vate fire patrols be more generousl
provided for the preservation of TO
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