Show I I I I I RANK FAILURE OF THE CONVENTION Lt Little le Interest Taen Taken by Delegates tp Co SECTiONAL PLAN LAN UNWISE EVEN VEN GOVERNMENT SHARPS DISCOURAGED AGED Ore Aug the ther r plan plan ot of holding the deliberations ot tb National Irrigation congress lit in se t ons Initiated at the of ot C Agriculture Wilson is a failure sees to be the con consensus ot of n amo among g the del ate to the con congress congress gress Which Is no now ln se sion In Port Portland Portland land land and in thI somE som or of the fhe gov who la have ve come here hereto to address the sections ns coIncide Few Delegates Attend that there are in l Q accredited dele delegates gates to the congress not more than f fifty t or al all iDId have at att t the sectional meetings either or today The he work of the congress i is being done b by the resolutions committee and the only interest that has bus bean ex cx cited sInce the genrl general session en on the opening day dar is over the arguments during its which have taken place meetings This committee has been heen at attended attended tended by about fifty more delegates and the 1000 others are ure 6 spending their thel time in viewing the fair or visiting about tie different ponts of interest city Pronounced a Failure a q question eston or of the of the Associated Pres Press as to what lie he thought of oC the plan l foner former Governor L B Prince of New Mexico the sentiment which pre valls by sa Think about i It it s no thought I it speak speaks for Itself it is a I failure Another prominent delegate said The congresses at El Pas Paso and Port Portland land Jand have both been But what e tn we do we cannot afford to an antagonize antagonize cin the wishes of the government for wIthout its support we exIst I and Ithe if the present arrangement on 00 I dons believe we wi will be able to exist much longer wih with it it I Lttie Little or No Interest I interesting were read in te the different sections before groups run running fling ning from he five to but wih such sueh sparse attendance i It is hard bard for forthe the he speakers Deakers to do themselves justice and discussion is at a a minimum I The resolutions whose ses have llave been marke marked by mun I I stormy tormy talk talk held treE three sessions toda today Two hour hours and a hal half were consumed I at the morning session in acrimonious disputes as to the merits of a resol I ton tI w tende tended to do away with nn an I 1 r In the of I II I M p o who Te I it I unaware that the National atonal Irrigation congress and National Irrigation s are entirely different organ Before the resolution was I adopted the debate at times grew ox EX EXceedingly heated and at on one period i It I resolved itsel itself into a personal attak upon upon some of the officials of oC the mn gaton gation association I Few Resolutions But But few rew resolutions have beer been adopted In committee so far the prim I pal ones being being the endor endorsement 1 t separate statehoOd for Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona and one which df do ea dares es that the government should no 10 interfere wih with or prevent privatE o E from con reservoirs for reclamation purposes on thE Rio Grande river in New Mexico and C Cob olo rado above El Paso The committee on nominatiOns the following off officers ers for th the ensuing ensuing Governor George C Pardee of Cj I i fornia incumbent president Tb L IV Y I Shurtliff of Utah first Yi vice e pr r let Congressman J H Stevens o Tx second vice president E L L Smith in 1 fn ot of Oregon third vice ice I Ident dent H B Maon Maxon of ser ell tar tary The committee did id not ot he I subject of the next meeting place 1 ing that to be fought out on the floor I of the convention tomorrow Th The 1111 ii I candidates for tor Atho he distInctions are Den Denver I ver er Cole Colo and Boise Ida |