Show REPORT ON CONSERVATION lAWS LAS i i Presidents Bill for Withdrawal of II Public Lands Especially Commended 1 i Washington al hington Feb Conser the necessity for the passage at It the present t tse session se sion of Congress of ot good laws la s for tor the Ute protection of the natural resources of oC the I United States Stat is the keynote ke note of a report r port I just made to toO the National Conservation association by b Gifford Pinchot recently i chosen president of the association Mr Pinchot takes up in what he lie calls caits I I a 3 spirit of constructive criticism nine I bills relating to the conservation er of oC nat i I ural urai resources introduced into Congress I F January 18 on behalf of the secretary of I i the interior one of oC which has been re reported r reported i ported from the public lands landt committee the other ei eight ht being still in the hands of oC the committee Mr r Pinchot calls upon HIP tue members of the time association to put forth strong efforts to hay have enacted into law the bill on the withdrawal of oC f public lands landI which has been reported in amended form from the i committee e by Senator Nelson on following 1 conferences between the committee and anti i officers of ot the conser conservation association i This hill 1111 Mr fr Pinchot thinks think should have hav havethe havethe the unqualified support of the members 1 of the association Of OC the other eight bill bills he believes that i i isome some merely m rel require amendment while I i others other must be r roat The coal bill hili anti and i the phosphate i III il asphaltum and nat natural I ural gas bills he reports ara fundamentally fundamentally tally tall sound in principle but need some seine i amendment I They The wisely separate he said the stir sur surface ur face of the land from the underlying min into minerals and provide for the disposal of th minerals by lease and not by sale sak But the coal bill he hf asserts contains no sufficient antimonopoly clause The clause claue that purposes to regulate rates rat to tobe tobe be hi c II the public IF il ii PO so 11 framed that it may mav ma v l I he e with pa ease |