The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
State Rights Politics Is Sub-
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BIG LAND FIGHT EXPECTED
The Nations Big Men Wili Attend the Congress and Make Speeches. Both Taft and Roosevelt
 Will Attend

St. Paul, September 4-Gi' I'd Pinchot tonight inaugurated the fight for control of the national conservation congress, which will begin five days convention here tomorrow
 MT. Pinchot had intimated during the day that the faction favoring state con- ,trol of national resources would have to make the first move if there was to be a fight. However, he said he was not talking for publication. Meanwhile visitor after visitor came to his rooms at the hotel and when not talking to these he was busy at the telephone.
 The significance of all this ill-concealed hustle became apparent tonight when a commission was formed for the avowed purpose of bringing the state commissions into touch with each other and into har- mony with the national conservation con gress Officers were elected and com mittee was appointed to confer with the national body. The officers and members of the committee are known as friends of MT. Pinchot and of national control of national resources.
  braska was elected president and J. c. Gipe of Washington, D. C., secretary. The following were placed on the com mittee:
 President Baker of the national conser- vation congress; o. M. Griffith Madison, Wis; I. c. Hardtner, Urania, La.; w. D. Douglas Seattle, Wash. W. A. Fleming Jones, Las Cruces, N. M; w. H. Dye, Indianapolis; F.. L. Worsham. Atlanta Henry A. Barker, Providence, R. l., and E. T. Allen, Portland, Ore.
 There are 42 state conservat com missions which were appointed a er Col onel Roosevelts famous conference of governors at Washington The President at the same time appointed a national commission which was to act as a sort of solar center to keep the state com missions in their orbit. Last year by an amendment to the sundry civil bill Con gressman Tawney knocked out the na- tional commission, since which time the state commissions have been working according to their own lights rather than in the systematic fashion desired by Mir. Roosevelt. They were considered by the delegates here by reason of their
 
 open to the persuasions of the state con- trol faction of which J. J. Hill Is leader.
 By tonights coup, as it Is called, MT. Pinchot is said to have played masterful politics in behalf of the national control people, of whom he is considered the con- nander.
 Reports were current in hotel lobbies tonight that the state control people h oxrn han r,1a of It was admitted that the truth of the re- ports could become known only on the floor of the convention, but it is said three states not far from Lake Michigan would send delegations, the members of which were interested in waterpower sites. The states concerned have been considered safely in the national control camp for which reason 1t was generally thought best to await confirmation of the reports.
 PostOfnce Decorated
 Politics, for and against state rights in the matter of conservation of national resources, held sway today among the delegates gathered here to attend the second national conservation congress, which, beginning tomorrow, will continue until Friday night.
 There will be addresses and discus sions dealing with everything from wa ter power sites to conservation of bird life-plenty of them-but the real inter- est of the convention lies in the ex- pected fight of the public land states for control of their own national re- sources. rather than by the federal gov ernment.
 Predictions by the leaders are that there will be a fight in the resolutions committee and again on the floor. As to the relative strength of the two fac tlons nothing Is obtainable tonight The public land states will it is said, be represented by full delegations, special pressure of argument to secure such rep resentation having been exerted In states where 1t Is held that the Roosevelt-Pin- chot policies are too generous to unborn generations as opposed to the present. Less interest Is said to have been shown in the older states where public lands, etc, are not a living local issue.
 According to present plans the friends of national control of public resources will proceed as if there had never been a thought of state control. They do not intend to start anything. They admit that 1t won't be necessary. Governor Hay and legion of others will attend to that at the first opportunity and the battle which is expected to make the congress a notable one will be on. The programme calls for addresses by President Taft tomorrow and Col. Roose- welt Tuesday. James J. Hill, who is a leader of the state rights people, ana Senator Beveridge will address the con vention on Wednesday.
 Clifford Pinchot former national forest CT, and president of the National Con servation association, does not speak until the last day. Prof. Henry s. Graves, the present chief forester. will talk on "The Forest and Nation on Thursday.
 Two thousand delegates in attendance Is the estimate of the local committee. The fact that the President and his predecessor at the White House will be among the speakers and that the state fair begins tomorrow is expected, to add other thousands to the crowd. The aud itorium, which can seat 10000 persons, will shelter the crowd
 B. N. Baker of Baltimore, president of tho national conservation congress, will call the delegates to order at 10 o'clock following which Archbishop Ireland will deliver the invocation. Governor Eber- hart will welcome the delegates on be- half of the state and Mayor Herbert P. Keller on behalf of the city. President Taft, who Is reported from Beverly to have worked hard over his manuscript, will then deliver the feature address of the day. He will be followed by Sen ator Knute Nelson of Minnesota, who is chairman of the Senate committee on public lands, as we'll as head of the Ballinger investigation committee.
 In the afternoon there will be con- ference of governors of states and ad- dresses by such of them as desire to be heard. Night sessions are on the