Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-30
| NJ A LAFOLLETTE
INSURGENT.
JOHNSON TO COP.
GcvernOr-EIect Tells Conferees
He Demands Loyalty to
Progressive Cause
PARDEE AND FORBES CLASH
Alameda Man Fires Hot Shots
for Conservation at Leuis-
IatiVe Preliminary
PARDEE AND FORBES CLASH
tAssoclated PressI

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. ga tilt
between former Governor George G.
Pardee and Colonel L. A. Forbes Of
sacramento, state Republican leaders
IN their preliminary legislative confer
ence at the Palace hotel this afternoon
tiIeW open the conservation issues
which Will come before the state lepis-
ldture in the next session.
Colonel Forbes took execution to soma
OF the features Of a conservation bill
OF which Mr.. Pardee gave a resume as
chairman of the committee appointed
by Meyer Lissner to draft the bill. In
Neln of pleasant satire Mr.. Pardee
feplled to Colonel Forbes warning
against "hanG-clapping capital" de.
claring that he did not propose to take
away any Of the coloneFs water power
Dut planned only to prevent his wicked
partners from grabbing more water
ana putting ii in cold storage"
GoFernor-elect Hiram w. johnson
was loudly cheered when introduced bv
chairman Lissner, In q short vigor-
Gus talk, he declared himself committed
TO LaFollete insurgency and said he
would demand loyalty to the inslrgent
cause of all associated with him in the
government of the state.
Inc encounter between former Cow
ernor Pardee and Colonel Forbes arose,
When in preliminary to his resume OF
tile piopoSeu conservation bill Mr.. Par
zee defned his stand on the question.
one OF the first conclusions reached
pN the conservation committee" he
SAID, was that most of the water
power OF the state has been grabbed
by the big interests and put in cold
storage. There is still 5000. 900 horse
power or railing water in the state not
utillZed' the cream of which has been
seized and kept from use by the big
Al,:.-
The bill which he have framed is de-
signed to prevent the appropriation Of
the waters of Pitt, McCloud and FAN
rivers"
The chief provisions of the proposed
conservation bill, as reviewed by Mr.
Pdrdee, are:
GATES Is TO GIVE TALK
That no appropriations be made for
period of longer than twenty-five
years; tnat water for riparian uses be
not utilized for electric power exceDt
by a special appropriations; that the
state be empowered to fix compensa-
ton to power companies and that the
work of development must begin with
In three years of filing OF application.
The bill also provides for the appoint
ment of board of control of which
the governor and state engineer shall
be eX-otficio members.
City Attorney Percy V. Long of San
Francisco discussed the proposed an
pointment of a public service commits
sion.
State Senator Lee C. Gates of Los
Angeles will speak on Direct Legis-
latiOn'
The conference will close with an
evening session.
Lieutenant Governor Wallace an
nounced the appointment this morning
of Ray c. Waring as his private Sec
retary
In his opening address Chairman
Lissner declared the Republican party
would have no spoils to distribute in
going into office and would not be
hampered in it's proposed progressive
legislation by pre- election pledges.
I'VE are under no obligations what
ever" he said. The state central
committee is not bound to distribute
jobs in order to carry out its plans.
"A new line has divided the political
forces of the country. 1t is not be-
tween Republicans and Democrats, but
it is between the insurgents and pro-
gressives on one hand and the reac-
tiOnaries on the other. The will of the
people must be the guiding star. and
every legislator-eleC in the coming ses-
sion must and will bow to the peoples
mandate"
Mrs. Lillian Harris Coffin and Mrs.
Elizabeth Gerberding, prominent Cali
forna suffragists, attended with the
view Of urging suffragist legislation.