The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-21
DELEGATES HEAD A REVOLT WHICH IS IN FAVOR
 OF STATE RIGHTS.
ANOTHER CONGRESS- LIKELY
lf Arkansans Headed by Walter Pow ell Can Secure a Sufficient Follow. ing-Yesterdays Discussions Were Spirited Affairs.

Washington, Nov. Monopolis l tic control Of waterpoweT in private
 hands was denounced by the National 1 Conservation Congress, which ad- ] jourued here late today. Accom-
 panying this denunciation was a dec l laration that no waterpower rights
 owned by the public ever should be
 removed from public ownership. The climax of the waterpower fight
 which mad agitated the congress for several days came after the commit 1 tee on resolutions to which had been ! referred diTer- ent reports form the | waterways committee, submitted that ihe matter had been taken from it's ! hands by action of the convention yesterday in adopting general princI- I pes upon which the waterways com
 mittee agreed No mention of the ! majority or minority reports, which ! differed as to state and federal con-
 trol of waterpower projects was made
 in the resolutions committees reports
 to the convention.
 When the report had been read, 1 Clifford Pinehot former chief forester of the United States and father of i the minority waterways report in { the congress, moved as an amend
 ment to the resolutions report d dee
 aration of principles on waterway 1 control similar to the ideas in the | minority report signed by himself, | former Secretary of War Henry L. 1 Stimson and Jose Teal of Oregon. | This amendment was adopted by a
 vote of 317 to 96 after one offered by Representative Burnett of Ala bama, which injected into the resolu- ton the matter of state control ot|
 waterway projects had been defeated,
 37S to 132
 i Tine Pinchot amendment. approved 1 after a stormy session. during which repeated attempts were made to dd- ! jouan by some southern and western delegates, declared that monopolistic control of waterpOwer in private hands was swiftly increasing in the | United States. far more rapidly than | public control thereof" that increas-
 ing concentration of water power in | some hands was accompanied by growing control over the power con suming agencies the public service companies of the country. IL con l tinued.
 "Whereas, the concentration if fos-
 tered in the past by outright eralts
 of public powers in perpetuity ln-
 evitably will result in a highly mo- nopolistic control of mechanical pow
 CT one of the bases Of modern civili-
 zaton and prime factor in the cost
 of living
 Therefore, be it resolved that we | recognize the firm and effective pub l lie control of water power corpora' | tions as pressing and immediate ne- cessity urgently required in the pub 1 lie interest that we recognize there i is no restraint so complete, effective aud permanent as that which comes from firmly entrenched ownership of lhe power site and that it is the sol l
 conservation congress that hereafter no water power now owned or con- 1 trolled by the public should be sold, granted or given away in perpetuity
 or in any manner removed from the public ownership, which alone can give sound basis of assured and per manent control in the interests of the people,
 When this resolution had been read efforts were Intellectually made to
 rule 1t out of order and Representa- tive Burnett moved to amend it by
 inserting state control wherever
 public control" appeared. Il was
 upon these motions that the conyen- ton was brought to stormy chmax and at one time some of Mir. Pin
 chots friends including the president of the congress, urged him to consent to an adjournment. Notions to ad- journ were made before the final roll
 calls, but were hooted down by the
 convention.
 The congress elected Chas. Lathrcp
 Pack of Lakewood N J.. as president
 to succeed himself; Mrs. Emmons Crocker, Fitchburg, Mass. vice pre5i
 dent, N C. McLoud, Washington, D C., recording secretary; Dr. Henry S Drinker, South Bethlehem, Pa, treas urer, and Thomas F. Shipp, Indian
 apolis, corresponding secretary.
 l Efforts of the Arkansas delegation