The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-08-05
Taft is CHIEF SPEAKER
FIRST DAY OF CONGRESS
Given Place Of Honor on Program
Will be in St. Paul for one
Day Only. ..., -

AOAAoS M OAAPPS SASSuSAvS 49,
rotary of the Conservation Congress,
to be held in st. Paul the first week
in September, has issued his first
as to the program of
the first day. That day will be
Taft day and the president will be
the chief speaker. President Taft
will be the first of the guests to be
welcomed and will occupy suite in
the new St. Paul that will be occu-
pied the following day by Colonel
Roosevelt.
Archbishop John Ireland has been
selected to give the invocation as it
was the wish of Cardinal Gibbons
that the archbishop be selected
when it was found that the cardinal
could not be present. The invoca-
ton will be given at 10 o'clock
Monday morning. .U.Hr}.ss
Mr.. Shipp has announced the
speakers who have been assigned
places on the program and who have
accepted. They are as follows:
William H. Taft, president of the
United States.
Theodore Roosevelt, ex.president
OF the United States.
Francis ]. Heney, of San Fran
cisco, graft prosecutor.
Herbert Knox Smith, commission
er of the bureau of corporations,
Washington.
Miss Mabel Boardman, director of
the National Red Cross society,
Washington.
Senator Joseph M. Dixon, Mis-
soula, Montana. s
"A. Radcliffe Dugmore. lecturer,
New York. ~ -.s. ~ - =
Frank M. Chapman, curator of
birds, American Museum of Nat
ural History, New York.
Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver,
Fort Dodge, Iowa. -.
Fred C. Stevens, representative
from St. Paul. .~
Senator Albert Beverage,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
James Wilson, secretary of agri-
culture, Washington.
Walter A. Page, editor of the
Worlds Work, and member OF
Roosevelt's country life commiss-
ion, New York.
Herbert S. Hadley, governor
of Missouri.
Albert l.. Baker, president of the
board of trade, Chicago. -a"
/ Henry Wallace, editor of Wallace
Farmer, Des Moines. 80 u. ,s.
= Prof. Henry F. Graves, United
States forester, Washington.
John Barrett, director of interna-
tional bureau of American republics,
Washington. -.. -
DR.. w. J. MCGEE, department of
agriculture, Washington.
James J. Hill, St. Paul.
" Frank E. McVey, president of the
University of North Dakota.
~ Capt. ]. B. White, chairman of
the executive committee of the Sec
con national Conservation Congress,
Kansos City.
James R. Garfield, former sec.
rotary of the interior, Cleveland.
DR.. George F. Swain, Harvard
University.
Wallace D. Simons, St. Louis.
Thomas L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers Of America.
Prof. Liberty H. Bailey, New
York state agricultural college, chair
man of the Roosevelt county life
commission, Ithaca.
Judge Ben B. Lindsay, of the
Denver Juvenile Court, Denver.
& DR.. F. F. Wesbrook, dean of the
department of medicine and surgery
at the University Of Minnesota.
Clifford Plnchot, former chief
forester of the United States, presi
dent of the national conservation
association.
Senator'S Knute Nelson and Moses
Clapp, Of Minnesota.
George G. Pardee, former govern.
or Of California, Oakland.
Newton c. Blanchard, former
governor Of Louisiana, Shreveport.
Senator A. B. Cummins, Des
Moines Iowa.
The first day is called !" Presidents