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Show AMERICANS NEED I IF WS EMPIRE I Denver Man Stirs Up Hornets' I Nest Advocating Bringing I in of Foreigners. I FINAL SESSION WILL I BE HELD THURSDAY Delegates Will Then Have Op- I portunity to Inspect Pro- I gress in Idaho. I Utah today was awarded I the Grand Sweepstake prize I for the best display of fruit, I and will carry away the $500 I silver cup. Idaho won the I Grand Sweepstake prize for I the best display of grains I and grasses grown under ir- I rigation. I Ada county, Idaho, won the I Grand prize for vegetables. I Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Ida., Sept. 5. Tho fourteenth H National Irrigation congress is drawing H to a close. The final session will be held Thursday morning. It will be H strictly a business session, devoted to H the reports of committees, balloting for H the location of the fifteenth congress'. H and tho election of officers. H The special train which will then carry tho delegates to visit the irrigated parts of the Snake river valley will leave Boise Thursday evening. The fl part of the trip west from Nampa to Wciscr and intermediate points has been H abandoned, owing to the limited timo H that can be devoted to the trip. The fl train will make a night run from Nam- fl pa to Minidoka, arriving at the dam H at Milnor at 7 o'clock Friday morning, H where a stop will bo made to inspect H the dam and the intake of the great caual. Then tho trip to Twin Falls City will be resumed, most of the day being spent there, drives being taken H to Shoshone falls and Bluo lakes. Fri- IH day morning will find the part3' some- IH where in the vicinity of Idaho Falls and the day will bo spent in tho upper Snake river valley, tho train going as far north as St. Anthony. The trnin will return to Pocatello Friday night; IH thenco back to Boise. IH Busy Morning Session. H The morning session of tho congress wns called to order at 9:45, by Vice-President Vice-President Shurtliff, who introduced as the first speaker, William K. McAllis- IH ter, general ageut of tho Southern Pa- IH ci lie rnilroad at Denver. lie said enough H money had been spent on tho lower Mississippi rivor in endeavors to control the great Hoods, to impound all the H flood waters of its western tributaries, IH and thus irrigate all the arid portions of H the great eastern slope of tho Rocky IH mountains. Then, in disoussiug the IH peopling of rodeomed arid wastes, he IH lauded tho Mormon systom of coloniza-tion, coloniza-tion, by which the valleys of Utah and adjacent States had been largely peo-plod, peo-plod, and favored an organized Stato or National system of obtaining good immigrants from Europo. H When he unfolded this plan ho very IH soon discovorod that ho had stirred up IH a hornets' nesl. In a moment, Col. H John P. Irish, California immigration MM agent; Mr. Mock of tho Northern Pa- H cific and others were aftor him. all as- sorting that there wero good citizenB 1 of the United States ready to occupy 1 farms tllat can be cited by reclamation; 1 that tncy wero more uesirnoio man peo- mm pie from foreign shores, and that the H latter were already coming fast enough H without urging. Agent Mock stated that 75,000 settlers had been settled this year in the States west of Minne- H sola traversed by the Northern Pacific, and that they wero nearly all American citizens. Hero John Minto of Salem, Or., 84 years old and a well known pro- ducor, came to the stage and told now he came from England iu '58, as good H an American citizen then as he is now, Mm and crossed tho plains through this val- lev to Orogon, sixty-two years ago. Ho MM bolicvcd that tho pauper and vicious classes of all foreign countries should bo excluded. Mr. Minto has a son who MM is postmnster of Portland. fM Col. John P. Irish said Mr. Minto 's tM story well illustrated tho difference in tho character of the immigration sixty years ago and that seeking to come in now. MM Dofonds the Administration. mm Congressman W. A. Boeder of the fM Third Kansas district made a strong 'MM address, touching the thrco subjects of 'MM the forest service, progress in irriga- Vm tion and rural education. MM Referring to tho forest question ho MM said that hu was going to say now what he wanted to say last night, and MM ho then announced his full and unquali- lied support of the forest, policy or tho 1 administration. - Ho .wanted the pooplo. MM I of tho sections in which forost reserves may be located to have the fullest possible pos-sible uso of nil their resources consistent with their preservation and improvo-"Wo improvo-"Wo can and we will," he declared, "have the full use of this portion of our horitago and leave it bettor than wo found it." MY. JRccdur, chairman of the Houso Committee on Irrigation. is thoroughly in sympathy and greatly intcrosteu in its a'dvancomcnt. u bc-HB bc-HB pan life as a country schoolteacher and is a strong advocate of the contraliza-lion contraliza-lion of country schools wherever prac-Hl prac-Hl ticablc. The centralized school was nn academic education possiblo for t ho HH young men and women who could not possibly obtain these advantages othcr- Senator Carter, who had presided at HI provious sessions, left the city last night HI and Vice-President Shurlliff hero called HI Gov. Albert E. Mead of Washington to j Hi the chair. HI II. St. George Tucker of Virginia was i HJ introduced as a gentleman of ancient H and famous name and lineage. Ho "m Hi president of the Jamestown exposition, Hi to bo held at Nowport News, Va in HI J907, and his special mission hero is to HI ask the congress to hold its next meet- HJ ing in his city. Mr. Tucker possesses HI :i pleasing quaintness of facial oxprfs- Hl sion and speech nnd a charm of manner 1 that captivated his hearers. IFo has , a rare fund of humor and is master of j pathos. ITo said that as he camo through tho heat and dust of the Snake-river Snake-river plains there came to him the Scriptural injunction thai, tho rain shall bo made to fall aliko on the just and tho unjust. This left him in doubt as to tho classification ' of tho people of Tdaho, where it apparently novcr rains. He had no doubt whatever thut the people who could make of those parched plains such a paradise as ho beheld in this valley would, should any of them bo so unfortunate as to go there, mako of that place which is supposed sup-posed to occupy the nether regions, a good summer resort. Ho strongly urged the congress to come to Virginia in Discusses Logal Phases. Chief Engineer F. H. Newell made an addrees on "Laws and Methods Under Which Irrigation Projects Were Constructed by tho General Government." Govern-ment." Ho referred briefly to tho desert, land act ajid the Cary act as tho predecessors of tho present reclamation act, and referring to the earlier discussion discus-sion as to immigration said ono of tho embarrassments the Government had encountered en-countered in this work was that thero were too many Bottlers. lie spoke of the permanent character of the works now being built under Government con- trol and said cheap future maintenance was given greater consideration in I HJ their construction than the securing of HJ a low initial coBt. Following a short HI discussion the morning session ad- HJ journcd. Boast Is Repudiated. Monday afternoon, Walter H. Groves, n. local engineer in private practice, read a .paper before the congress, tho title of' "which was "Irrigation Under fl the Carer Act in Contrast With Gov- HJ ernment Reclamation. " If. "was largely HJ devoted to. a roast of the reclamation HJ service, HJ Later the Idaho delegation adopted HJ a. resolution repudiating the sentiments HJ of Engineer Grovos's paper in thatpar- HJ ticular, arid this afternoon Judge Haw- BB lo3r, chairman of the delegation, pre- I sented a resolution and in doing so made a statement 01 the case. HJ Gov. George E. Chamberlain of Ore- HJ gon presided at tho afternoon session. HJ Bight Bev. Joseph Arearelli of Den- HJ vct, the first speaker, who spoke of Ital- HI jan immigration on Western farms, de- HJ plowd the tendency of immigrants from HI his country to gather in the slums of 1 the big cities, but with this class ho HJ contrasted the thousands of thrift- HJ Italian farmers -who wero cultivating HJ farms in the West. HJ . Discussion of "Laws Governing Wa- Hl tor Rights and Methods of Appropri- HJ ating Water bv Different States" was H8 introduced by Dr. Elwood Mead of the HJ reclamation service. HJ State Engineers representing ten HJ States were present, but the only HJ speakers -were John W. Lewis of Oregon arid John W. Wade of Helena, Mont., HJ president of the State Engineers' asso- Hf ciation. HJ "Richard W. Young of Salt Lake City HJ read a paper on "Sugar Beet, Legisla- n tion." His argument was against the mit frpe admission of sugar from the Phil- Hl ippines, as has been persistently advo- Hj cated before Congress. HJ Col. Robert H. Hartington of the HJ South Carolina delegation presented HJ "The Drainage Needs of South Caro- H lica." Ho urged tho National Irriga- HJ tion congress to espouse the cause of HJ his State and help to secure Federal HJ appropriation for the reclamation of Hj South Carolina marsh and swamp lands. H John Kenry Smith Speaks. H In the absence of Gov. Cutler of Utah, HJ who has not arrived, John Henry Smith of Salt Lake City was en lied upon by Gov. Chamberlain to speak for tho Utah delegation. Mr. Smith's address was a vigorous plea, for good citizeu-ship citizeu-ship and ior the upholding of the bent Jraditions- of the Republic. Questions of climatologv and rainfall were dis-oussed dis-oussed by F. H. Brandenburg, in charge of the weather bureau at Denver. As evidence of future fulfillment of the good thingB promised should the convention vote to meet nest vear in Sacramento, the California delegation this afternoon threw open the doors of their headquarters and served refreshments refresh-ments to all comers. Fruits, light wines and more substantial things were offered, and it was noted that nearly all delegates coming away wore Sacramento Sacra-mento badges. The convention tonight was entertained enter-tained by the Boise Symphony orchestra, orches-tra, which rendered a concert programme pro-gramme in convention hall. There is a great gathering here of the chiefs of the reclamation and forest services, headed b' Director Walcott. and Chief Engineer Newell of the former for-mer service and Forester Pinchot of tho lattor. Other prominent officials arc Elwood Mead, 0. J. Blanchard, E. C. Barnard, topographer; E. A. Sherman, forest supervisor: A. P. Potter, chief grazing inspector; D. W. Ross, supervising super-vising engineer, Idaho district; F. C. Horn, construction engineer; F. A. Fenn, forest supervisor; Thomas H. Means, engineer of tho Truckee-Carson project, and many others. There are present fifteen omcialsj general and local, lo-cal, connected with the service alone. These officials and others have formed while hero what has been called a scientific section, and a series of illus1 trated scientific lectures were given at the Orpheum theater 3'esterdav and today. to-day. . They were illustrated by splen-I did stereopticon views, bringing out various va-rious points in the two services, and were very interesting and insmctive. The committee on permanent organization, organ-ization, which will report tomorrow, will recommend the following for election elec-tion as the ofticers of the congross for the next year: President, Gov. George E. Chamber lain of Oregon. Vice-President, John Henry Smith oi Salt Lake City. Second Vice-President, H. B. Maxson, Nevada. Third Vice-President, George W. Bar-stow, Bar-stow, Texas. Secrotary, D. H. Anderson of Illinois |