The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-09-10

''SSo'oI'ohS do ]OoPtcO ToIIO" SIOSCIy
the Recommendations of the De.
posed Chief Forester and of Former
President RooseveIt-Henry Wallace
of Des Mones Elected President Of
Organization.
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.
tor of Wallace's Farmer: of Des
Moines, 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 a great national resource we
approve and endorse the opinion of
Theodore Roosevelt that all the wa
tiers 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
lgable 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
we recommend legislation for
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 nom
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.
I'VE 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-
the royalty to be adjusted at
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.
I'VE hold that phosphate deposits
the public lands should be
safeguarded for the American people
by appropriate legislation; and we
recommend the early opening of the
Alaskan and other coal fields belong
ing to the people of the United States
for commercial purposes on a system
OF leasing, national ownership to be
retained.