The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-27
GOVERNORS FINISH.
GOOD WORK RESULTED FROM THEIR CONFERENCE AT
 WASHINGTON.
X GREAT AND EXPANDING FORCE
Has Already outgrown the Expecta- tions of It's originators-state Ex.
 ecutives Greatly Pleased at the Re.
 suits of Their Meeting.

Washington, Jan. 22.--Nothing in the two houses of congress has been so interesting and significant as the Adjournment of the third house-the house of goveInors--which the diplo- matic mudesty closes to denominate Sitsclf the Conference of Governors.
 This conference of governors has undoubtedly come to stay and to serve the public and the states. In its first Independent session it has outgrown the expectation of its original ele- ments, and is now and henceforward great and expanding force in the Government.
 Judson Harmon, governor of Ohio, said:
 This convention has been a revela- < tion and a delight. It Is remarkable and lamentable that no one ever though of the idea before. It Is going to do mighty good in legitimate way. For myself" said he, it was worth crossing the continent to have heard the speeches of the governors of yoming. Colorado and Idaho. No reading or hearing of all my life has so clarified and pleaded the great problems of those western states as these executive presentations. Here after as a factor of public opinion in Ohio, in executive messages and pub lie utterances, shall have better light and better inclination to help t..ese western people in their work and in their development under the government than I have ever before known how to do.
 Moreover, was amazed and de- lighted at the vigor and virile direct ness of Western thought They are wonderful people. Most wonderful of all to me is the fact that these west ern and northwestern governors are better state rights men even than the statesmen of the south. They are happy and practical in their creed. They have solved the conflict with the central government by discover ing that there is no conflict. They declare that in all the growth and de- velopment of those western empires, in the control of their waters. mines and forests, the federal government has never interferred with the states. < that the states by assumption control s all that they wish or need to control. and that no centralizing protest has ever arisen in opposition.
 Gov willson of Kentucky declared;
 "If the conference of governors had been In existence as an institution in 1880 there would never have been a
 war between the states. The issues
 of that day would have been settled
 by argument. adjustment and com
 promise"
 With one voice the governors ex- press supreme satisfaction of the re
 suits of the conference and the larg-
 est hope of even greater and more beneficent results in the future. The
 plans for actual utility. and for actual Influence upon public opinion and leg
 islation are being carefully and dis
 creetly laid, and viii develop in the
 next annual assembly.
 For one thing this assembly seems
 to have laid the ghost of the ire pressible conflict between centralized
 and states rights. by establishing the
 cooperation between them. For all
 future time the lion of central gov ernment seems to have lain down with the little lambs of the states and
 the house of governors shall lead them
 past passion into harmony and peace.