Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
NATION TO CONTROL
Forests Not to Be Given Back
to States, Says Mr.. Lamb.
ANNUAL Meeting CLOSES
American Association Ends Conven-
ton With Smoker at Rauscher's.
TELLS OF WATER POWER GRANT
Secretary of Interior Fisher Explains
One Made to Great Falls Power
Company of Montana.
TELLS OF WATER POWER GRANT

The American Forestry Association
| closed its thirty-second annual meeting
with smoker at Rauscher's last night.
given by the Washington members of
the organization to the delegates and
number of other guests. including men in
public life particularly members of the
House agricultural committee.
| Serious speeches We're made by num-
Der of those present, among them one by
Representative Lamb of Virginia, chair
man of the House agricultural commit
tee, soon to retire. who declared that
Congress has no idea of giving back to
| the states control of the forests, and
that so far as he knows or has heard
no attempt has been or is being made to
attack the governments present policy in
regard to conservation. He thought the
warning issued at the luncheon of the
organization at the Willard Hotel earlier
in the day by Clifford Pinchot. who said
that such an attack being planned
behind 1.-The stalking horse of states
rights need not create great alarm to
those interested in forestry.
! He pointed out that the House agri-
cultural committee is non political COM
mittee, and that democrats and repub-
| licans alike would be a unit in opposing
any attempt to Illustrate a progressive
! conservation policy. Mr.. Lamb spoke in
complimentary terms of Chief Forester
Graves and his work, provision for which
is made by Mr. Lambs committee
To Continue Liberal Policy.
a similar speech was made by Repre-
sentative Asbury f. Lever of South Caro-
lima, the ranking member of the House
agricultural committee. who will auto
| ~ mi "a
of the committee in the next Congress
Mr. Lever created the greatest enthusi-
asm by announcement that the pres
ent policy of the agricultural committee
| for liberal appropriations for forestry
work would be continued in the next con-
gress and he promised a merry hight TO
| any interest or interests who should at
! tempt to carry out the scheme limited at
by Clifford Pinchot.
Other addresses We're made by Repre-
| sentative Thomas l.. Rubey of MISSOURI
| Representative Gilbert HauSen of Iowa,
Charles l.. Pack of New Jersey, Otto
Luebkert of Washington. Dr. Henry 5.
| Drinker president of Lehigh University
and newly elected president of the asso-
citation; E. A. Sterling of Washington
| and Senator James A. Reed OF Missouri
/ Secretary of the Interior Fisher spoke
| eXtemporaneousy yesterday afternoon at
the luncheon given by the association at
the New Willard. describing the effect
| of the water power grant which the In
| terror Department has just made to the
! Great Falls Power Company or Montana
which, the department believes, is the
first step in the electrification of 10000
| miles o. transcontinental railroads. Mr.
Fisher also spoke of the work of the APP
palachian commission. He said, in part:
Address of Secretary Fisher.
THE natural resources of the country.
| and | am speaking particularly of It's
| water power have been tied up, and this
| has been a great disadvantage to the
| country, because it takes no argument
and illustration to demonstrate that the
| fuel resources of this country, the coal
| and the wood and the other resources
that are used for fuel purposes. are de-
| stroyed in the use, whereas the water
| power that we might harness and develop
| is perpetual and continual. and its use
| is the most living and vital example OF
| conservation in every sense of the word.
| Therefore, it is to the interest of the
| country, it is to our interest as lndlVldual
citizens and as members of an organdZa-
/ ton of this character, to urge and to secure
/ the adoption of policy which will permit
| this resource to be used as promptly ana
| as fully as possible. The reason why we
| have been able to accomplish so little IS
not the inherent difficulty of the situa-
! tion though it is not free from difficulty,
but in my judgment, and | speak with
| full knowledge of the significance of my
| words. the obstacles which have been in
| tentionaly thrown in the way of that
policy by people who believe that by SO
doing they will be able to discredit the
movement which we represent and In
| which we are so vitality concerned
! ..By conferences with the representa-
| tiyes of the forest service in the Depart
| ment of Agriculture, we had attempted to
work out a common and uniform policy
! Of departmental cooperation This was
| the situation when Congress was on the
point of adjourning without enacting any
general constructive water power legisla-
ton and on the 9th of August, 1917, the
Secretary of the Interior promulgated
! certain rules and regulations under the
main act of 1901 under which revocable