Show DETERMINED FIGHT I IN SIGHT IN IRRIGATION CONGRESS Contest Over Resolution to f f I Repeal Land Laws r j WILL COME UP ON FLOOR XX Committoe on Resolutions Is Hopelessly Divided I Idaho Delegation Headed by Congressman Con-gressman French Will lead the Tight Against Repeal I J L1RmlI C SPHCtAL Ogdeji Sept nrrhat there will he a determined fight against any action by thc National Irrigation congress favor Ing n repeal or modification of the existing ex-isting land laws was made evident today to-day The committee on resolutions after practically an allday session found itself hopelessly divided on two of three great questions before it the desert land act and the commutation clause of the homestead law and tomorrow to-morrow majority and minority ret arts will he presented on the action recommended recom-mended by the committee The vote on these two questions was 12 for and 0 against I TIMBER AND STONE ACT The sentiment In favor of the repeal or the timber and stone act under L which the opinion was expressed great frauds were being perpetrated against the Government was almost unanimous unani-mous Nevertheless on this as well as other recommendations a sharp fight will be waged with the outcome in doubt f SPIRITED COLLOQUY Today these questions were being I argued on every hand Before breakfast break-fast Senator Burton and lite colleague fongressman fleecier of Kansas indulged in-dulged in a spirited colloquy on the iildcwalk in front of the Broom hotel surrounded by members of the Kansas delegation The Senator defended the land laws and tho Confrrcssman as i r Called them All along the street clear I fcto the Tabernacle llule knots of men Svere engaged in the same pastime ANOTHER WARM ARGUMENT At the door of the t hall Register Lo renzo Thomas of the Idaho Land ofllce and a delegation from Arizona were lit lug It hot and heavy The Arizcmun k a ranchman said lie could point out twenty Mexicans in his community who were proving up on land for the sole purpose of selling It to speculators Mr Thomas declared that every acre of I desert land acquired coot the owner over SI 1 and that it was practically Impossible Impos-sible to gobble large tracts under the I law NKWLANDS TAKES IT TJP The 11isCus lon did not coast with the beginning of the programme 1 t was i taken up by i Senator Newlands the first sjuuker 01 he t days Ho said that the land laws hal been maladmlnitered The only way he could reconcile the t laiemcnUi of Senator Gibson and Con Lgrei > siiwii Mondoll was to assume that f the laws wore badly administered In Montana 1 and well aumlnislered l in I Wyoiuiiifc When the applause subsided Siiuuor Nowlands remarked that the I appluuge ws premature because the laws were administered In both States by l the same authority and he was forced to the conclusion that there were abuses even though Mr lon 1 < 11 had iot been able to find them I CLARK LEAVES CHAIR Senator Clurk retired from the chair this morning and called Gov Prince of I New Mexico his probable successor lo lireaide The latter introduced Secretary Secre-tary AVll on of the Department of Agriculture Agri-culture The affection in which the Sec rotary 55 < held was attested by the tumultuous applause with which he was rocrlvcd Secretary Vilson paid n tribute to the t people of the mountains and told of the experiment farm In this valley from which he said 2400 tons of alkali had been run out of forty I t aeroK ills address will be given in another an-other column I AFTER NEXT CONGRESS A resolution by Mr Shurtliff ofUtah I nialsinjt the selection of the next place of meeting I a special order for 10 oclock 1 In the morning was adopted Young of Utah introduced a resolution resolu-tion this morning pledging thf congress to meet next year in St Louis Mr YOung became very unpopular from that time on with certain gentlemen flOIll Texas Idaho Nevada and Wash In toll The resolution was laid on the tahp until such lime as the meeting I ltItstIoli is taken up T1ii5 afternoon Die delegates were ta ken up Ogden canyon IDAIIOANS CAUCUS 1 r fTlu > Idaho delegation held a caucus Vtc tnig afternoon and Instructed Congressman Congress-man French to lend the fight against action In favor of the repeal of the ex 1111 i I hnlllg lawn and members of other eo VrthweiHcrn delegations are also preparing ct t1 l pre-paring notion to opj > oso to the last any such ID i PROTRACTED DEBATE I 1 All attempt It Is stated will be made t to ring the subject before the congress 0 the moment next years meeting place tIle vote on which Is to he taken imme 51 hn CHutch on eonenlnf In the morning v iftf iJe n decided upon and protracted p ratc lu looked for before the National c1 i iKallon congress lakes its stand as a tJ1 boily ° n lie existing natlonn1 land f I laws 1 I EL PASO AGAINST FIELD f Tho Hfht for the honor of entertain d lug t111 National Irrigation congress In 1 1110 naa been quite bitter Tonight the f f l situation seems to be El Paso against he field with the Held of unknown strength Friends of the Texas city confidently claim a victory on the first mllot asserting that over 200 delegates have pledged their support to El i Paso BOOM FOR NORTHWEST Late this afternoon however a movement started by members of the Oregon delegation to brlntr the con guess to the Northwest rapidly crystal zcd A caucus will probably be held by delegates from the Western and Northwestern Stales to airree upon alan a-lan of action for tomorrow The general gen-eral idea as expressed tonight is to endeavor to decide upon some Northwestern North-western city If this be not possible hen the entire strength of the States ledged is to be thrown in favor of St Louis OFFICERS OF CONGRESS The committee having the matter inland in-land will recommend the elect Ion of the following officers for the ensuing year President W A Clark Mon l anu first lceprcs lent L W Shurl iff Utah second vinepresident W C ohnston Denver third vicepiesldcnt John Hall Texas secretary II IJ Maxson Reno Nev There was no op losition to the reelect Ion of Senator Clark as president of the congress and it I is I expected that the list of officers presented will be adopted by the con entlon by i a unanimous vote UTAH VOTES FOR EL PASO Delegation Atones for Indiscretion of MI Young TRIBUNE I SPECIAL Ogdcn Sept ljrh liLa Ii delegation Uoned for the indiscretion of Mr Young In moving that St Louis be the site of ho Twelfth Irrigation I congress tonight by l voting unanimously for El Paso as the neotlng place in 1H01 The vote was taken jUHt before the commencement of the veiling session of the Congress Acting Chairman Prince called the convention tool to-ol er promptly at S oclock Congressnan Howell of Utah delivered an invitation to the deligates to visit the Atlions of Ula h C Logan including lie t Bear river irrigation works Agricultural college iriyluun Young academy and I sugar fao ory Hi said the triin t would leave it S l I oclock Saturday morning leave on the olurn liip about a oclock and reitch OK tell at I 10 1 1 The convention voted tmani nouplv to accept the invitation WHY UTAH LOST CUP Hon Frederic W Taylor chief of time lepartmentof agriculture at the St Louis Worlds fair find also one of the judges at thu competitive fruit and grain exhlbi lon at the Weber County fair explained why Utah did not win the cup for the Inest fruit Ho said that another State clearly meaning Utah had Just as fine fruit as the State which did got the cup but that it was Infected with Insects Ho did not Intend he said to offer any Invidious In-vidious criticism but merely spoke of the matter because the time will come when It will not do to send fruit so infected to a > rlze competition It will not do oho o-ho experiments of th s Department of Vgrlculttiro and tho I State Cominlsaionors have made it umitcestmrj It will ho use lena to send fruit to the St Louis cxposi lon he said unless tho It sec is haVo boon xiermnnied The rciiuindcr of Mr Toy orH addicts was a ilcscrlpllon ot the ar angemcnts for the agricultural exhibit at the Vorlds fair anil timely advice to pros iccllvo exhibitors ViCTORlES OF PEACE The Victories of Pence was the subject sub-ject selected by Hon George II Maxwell jf Chicago for his uldressi Ire declared that the Irrigation congress had only become be-come a SUCCeSS when It ceased lobe a Western Institution and I appealed to the iiUrest of the East by pointing1 out that rrlgatlon was an Eastern as well as IL Vedti3rn niiestlon It Involves the ICast iccausu it Is the only means by which he I eongiSloil centers of the I EauL 1 could Ill rc lovcd of their surplus population ATTACKED DESERT LAND ACT Mr I Maxvoll vigorously 1 attacked the luHfiL land act on the ground that II vas admhilptorid I In I the I interest of the land speculator and did not contain tho I word home or contribute to the foundation of iionis II1 I f made a witty 1 and eficcu lye r < > pi ly to the arjjumont of Conir < ssman Mondoll dolivered I yesterday Whim Mon Irirs name waii mentioned a dolegalo yelled Hurrah I I for Mondell I Tho elY brought I t i round of npplnuno 1 from time champions of time dOfort land act QUESTIONED I MONDELLS FIGUIIES Mr i Maxwell lieu attacked t I MI Mon ilelTs figures and jirnceedud to t show by l llgurus of his own that at time prosum rtitu the public domain would be exhausted In six or seven voars Thtii said bo how ciii you i go to the Govornmont and ask lor appropriations to reclaim tho jiiibllc domain I Ho J I closed with an eloquent I appeal I 1or the preservation of Mu rOle JlM and urged the congress to I build for tho future and hand down to fntnr genern tlims the previous horltaiws which It has received from the i past W E SMiTTllE i HTOARD Willian E Smytho of California known as the father of the Irrigation congress was pruHCntcd and spoko on The Inllii mace of Irrigation on the American Ideal1 I fe argued against the separation of the ownership of wator from land pronounced pro-nounced the present land lawn archaic and by i his bright sallies of wit and olo quonce adorned the mibject 01 Irrigation with more poetry than tho delegates ever supposed I to contain Mr Brooks delivered a thoughtful and studious addrcjit which was much appreciated appre-ciated bv i his audience Mr Means was tho lust sneaker o the night After Mr Brooks address Thomas TI Meniu chkf or the bureau of eoll of tho Agricultural department told of the experiments ex-periments of the department of the eradication eradi-cation of alkali from time soil Ho nald cliton that the theory that allcall land was useless use-less has been thoroughly disproved by the d dtjmrtiimnl Tho oxperimontB have hicn conducted upon IMCU acres of land and It ivrmmm found thai itc per cent was unfitted for cultivation owing to the Ill SClmCd of alkali Tests wore made In three different places Out was a forty acre lrae wst of the Jordan river at Salt Lake This ground carried 3 percent per-cent alkali By leaching with water and drainage tho alkali was removed to stick an extent that I In one year IL crop of grain Is now giowlng A test near Fresno Cal gave equally good results A third teat was begun this year at North Yakima Wash heltl osllnmlod cost of redeeming the land Is lens than 520 an acre |