Show OFFICIAL WORK IS COMPLETED Irrigation Congress Chooses Its Leaders and Adopts Set of Resolutions SPECIAL PAPERS FOR TODAY d SPOKANE IN THE LEAD FOR NEXT YEARS MEETING Albuquerque N Mf M Oct OcL 2 The six sixteenth sixteenth tC nth national Irrigation congress In Inthis Inthis inthis this city completed Its work today with the adoption a of ot the report of the com committee committee on resolutions and the election of ot officers of the seventeenth congress The are President George I Barstow of ot Texas Vice President H D Loveland of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Francisco Second Vice President P I D ODon ODonnell ODonnell ODonnell nell of Montana Secretary B A Fowler of Arizona Foreign Secretary E McQueen Gray of New Mexico Special papers remain to be read at tomorrows session but the only busi bus business business 1 ness n ss of general interest remaining is the selection of the next n meeting place placeIt It Is conceded that Spokane holds the lead in the contest and will probably be bc successful The report of the committee on resolutions reso resolutions resolutions was adopted adopt d without discussion at the morning session Criticism of Forest Service After ACt r a long contest before the com committee committee committee the critics of the forestry service ice Ic were satisfied with the following Be it resolved solved r That It is the sense of this congress that such legislation u should be had in justice to the forest service 8 and claimants to property rights within the national forests as aswill aswill 4 will provide for a review at the in instance instance instance stance of any an party affected by b a com competent competent competent tribunal of controversies relating relatIng ing In to homestead entries or forest for st con control control control or regulation arising from any ac action action action tion regulation or ruling of the forest foresters foresters ers office That whenever large tracts of land suitable for agriculture and which are not naturally forest and which are not Intended to be made forest and which are not necessary or proper for the preservation of the forests or the water watersheds watersheds sheds or water supplies for the purpose to which they have been devoted lie within forest reserve boundary such tracts should hould be restored to entry as public lands Another resolution bears upon the utilization of streams for the creating of ot electric power and favors the re moval moal of restrictions such use The resolution That the necessary rights of way war and rights for construction of reser reservoirs reservoirs reservoirs and other uses of the public lands for development of or electric pow power er cr should be he encouraged and aided in every possible way and all such rights and uses should be granted and allowed al allowed allowed lowed upon equal terms with similar rights granted for the direct purposes of irrigation Such uses being public uses subject to the ruling of the state should continue so long Ions as the right to the beneficial water and the duty to supply the power continues under state laws And no burdensome charges or discriminations should be enacted or imposed as a result of which such ben beneficial beneficial developments may be delayed dela cd and the investment of capital therein prevented and the cost increased to the consumer After recommending the construction of levels and where needed drainage works for the reclamation of swamp and overflowed lands and the general conservation of waste waters through reforestation and other means mians the resolution continues Census of Standing Timber That a census of ot the standing tim ber in the United States should be au authorized authorized authorized by congress and that the states should be urged to cooperation with the nation for the preservation and enlargement enlar ement of our forest resources by b adoption of uniform forest laws and that forestry forest irrigation drainage flood protection water storage and riv rh river river er regulation and control for navigation navigation navigation tion and water power should be regard regarded ed as one great interrelated subject in all legislative and executive policies That power made available by b na irrigation works when once ap plied by pumping or other duty dut con connected connected netted with irrigation should be re regarded regarded regarded as appurtenant to the land and we urge the enactment of laws to this end The resolutions give sweeping in to the work of the reclamation reclamation reclamation tion service the tae forest service and the geological survey surly and urge urse on con congress congress gress continued support and increased appropriations for all of these bureaus urge urse the repeal of the timber and stone act to the end that the accumulation of oC the public timber lands In the hands of a few Ce great corporations may be ar arrested arrested arrested rested urge the speedy speed creation pf the southern Appalachian and White mountain national forests ask con congress congress gress for an adequate appropriation for forthe forthe forthe the use of the hydrographic h division of the geological survey to determine by b experiment and measurement and observation the practical effects of grazing and lumbering on the supply of water for irrigation and on the ero erosion erosion erosion sion of the soil soli and that such investigation imes Investigation extend over the entire water watersheds watersheds watersheds sheds both in and out of the national forests and that such investigation be prosecuted simultaneously throughout all the states and territories of or the arid and semiarid west Against Free Sugar A strong resolution against free sugar Is included also resolutions for forthe forthe forthe the creation of immigration bureaus by the western states and territories requesting cooperation with the na national national national conservation commission a con conservation conservation conservation committee of the Irrigation congress being authorized urging that the Carey Care act be made applicable to the territories endorsing the move moe movement movement ment to hold a session of the congress In Washington in 1910 to be known as asan asan asan an international congress on irrigation and asking appropriations from the state and the federal government for this congress and authorizing the present congress to appoint a committee com committee committee of ot five live to be known as the congressional con congressional gressional committee charged with the duty dut of ot urging the recommendation recommendations of the organization on the congress A separate resolution was adopted providing for the election of a board of governors consisting of the dial chair chairman chalman man and four other members of the executive committee and the president and congress with full authority to act for the committee in all matters in which it has authority under the constitution the aim being to secure a organization which will allow allowa a continued activity between n sessions of the congress ss A report of the special committee ap appointed appointed appointed pointed at Sacramento consisting of Gifford Pinchot F H Newell F A ABard ABard ABard Bard of California F J Kiesel of Utah and George I Barstow of Texas to investigate the feasibility of holding g gan an International congress on irrigation recommended the appointment of a committee of five to arrange for the holding holdin of such a congress congress either in Washington or at the capital of one of the republics within the next ext two or three years ears the com committee committee committee to report to the seventeenth congress s Mr Hearst was the donor of several handsome han some trophies to the industrial exposition held in connection with the th congress and was given an ovation when he was Introduced Mr Hearst Hea st said My h attention att has not been directed direct l to water ter so much lately as oil Stand Standard ard OH and I have hae no letters which refer to Irrigation congresses This was his Jils only reference to poll poli politics tics the rest of the speech being b de devoted devoted devoted voted to a general discussion of irrigation irrigation gation and its benefits Mr Ir Hisgen was Introduced and spoke for a few minutes of the work of ot the congress making no reference to politics |