The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-21
Pinchot Offers Amendment.

When the report had been read Gift
ford Pinchot, former chief forester of
the United States, and father of the
minority waterways report in the con-
gress, moved as an amendment TO the
report q declaration of principles on
waterway control similar to the ideas
in the minority report signed by him
self, former Secretary Of War Henry
L. Stimson and Joseph n, Teal Of Ore
gon. This amendment was adopted by
q vote Of 317 TO 90, after one offered
by Representative Burnett of Alabama,
which injected into the resolution the
matter Of state control Of waterway
projects, had been defeated, 37S to l32.
The Piuchot amendment, which was
approved after repeated attempts to
adjourn had been made by some south
ern and western delegates, declared
that monopolistic control Of water
power In private hands was increasing
in the United States "far more rapid
" than public control thereof and
that increasing concentration OF wa
ter power In some hands was ac'
companied by growing control over the
power consuming agencies. the public
service companies Of the country.
Monopoly Feared.
1t continuedt "Whereas this concen-
tration, If fostered, as IN the past, by
outrageous grants Of public powers in
perpetuity, will inevitably result in a
highly monopolistic control of me-
chanfcal power;
NTherefore, Be it resolved, that We
recognize the firm and effective public
control of water power corporations as
pressing and immediate necessity
urgently required in the public inter
est; that we recognize there is no re.
straint SO complete, effective and
permanent as that which comes from
firmly intrenched public ownership of
the power site, and that it is the
solemn Judgment of the fifth National
Conscrv alton congress that hereafter
no water power now owned or con-
trolled by the public should be sold,
granted or given away IN perpetulty or
IN any manner removed from tho pub
lie ownership which alone can give
sound basis of assured and permanent
control In the interest of the people. ~
Stormy Climax.
When this resolution had been read
,neffective efforts were made to rule 1t
ont Of order, Representative Burnett
moved to amend it by inserting Estate
lontrolU wherever "public control
appeared. It was upon these motions
tkat the convention was brought to n
stormy climax, and at one time some
~ MT, Pinchot's friends, including the
nresident Of the congress, urged him to
ronsent to An adjournment. Motions
IN adjourn were made before the final
roll calls, but wero hooted down by the
convention.
The congress elected Charles Lathrop
pnck Of Lakewood, n. j., as president
10 succeed himself; Mrs, Emmons
Srocker. Fitchburg, Mass, vice presi-
6ent. n, C. McLoud, Washington, d.
c. recording secretary; DR.. Henry S.
T2inker, South Bethlehem. Pa, treas.
urer, and Thomas f. Shipp, Indian
apolis, corresponding secretary.
Efforts of the Arkansas delegation,
headed by Walter Powell Of Little
Rock. which bolted the congress yes.
ter5ay. to spread the revolt failed to-
Sav hut another effort to have state Is
lights delegates meet with the Ar
tsnsns faction will be made tomor
~oy If there ia any response 10 the
Arkansas appeal plans for another con
scrvation congress Will be made. The
majority of the delegates, however, left
Washington tonight