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Show IkIeaTcIfewT to mm 13 Jlost Distinguished Mcu of Nation Na-tion to Discuss Conservation of Country's Resources. ISSUK REGARDED AS OUR FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM President Will Preside ;if Ses- j sions to Re Held in East j Room of Wliite House. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON'. April 5. A I. 10 o'clock n the morning of 'May 13. in Lhp historic isl room of the YN'hltc House. President Roosevelt trill call to order the most dls-InffUiBhdd dls-InffUiBhdd assemblage of men this county coun-ty lias ever seen at one place, at one line. It will bu the Governors of every iUte in the Union, the President's Cahi-iet, Cahi-iet, the United Stntes Supreme Court, enators. Representatives In Congress, nd, as ppecinl guest?, other of the Na-lon's Na-lon's most noted men. All' these will moot to consider the uestlon which the Prcaldenl has declared dec-lared to be "the fundamental protilcm" ow before the Nation the conporvatlon f the country's natural resources. Assurances (riven out by those who now of tho advance nlatui of the great meting are baaed on the fact that pra,c-rsilly pra,c-rsilly every Governor in the T'nllod tates has now accepted tho President's ivltatlon to meet with him in tho White otioe in May. Now the names of the ireo citizens of each Sta.te and Torrl-ry Torrl-ry which thr- President has usked the overnorn to bring with them are rapidly coming In. They include ?omo of the best known men of the country. One Is ; Judge George Gray of Delaware. Others I Include prominent business men, lawyers, j newspaper men and State officers. Mining Experts to Attend. It is strikingly evident that the conference con-ference will bring together not only the Nation's most distinguished men. but also Its foremost experts and specialists on the several phases to be discussed. Among these, under the general head of water resources, are rail and water transporta-( transporta-( lion, navigation, and water power: under l land resources arc; soil, forests, sanita- tlon. reclamation, land laws, growing and stock-ralslnc; and under mineral re-, re-, sources: mineral fuels, ores, and related , minerals. . While the names of the men who arer ! to discuss these separate topics have not , yet been announced, they arc known to t be recognized experts on the subjects which have been assigned (hem. For Instance. It Is generally understood that James .1, T f III, the great railroad builder, will discuss the relation brtweon rail and water transportation. Mr. Hill Is not only an authority on this subject, but has shown his deep interest In the subject sub-ject of water transportation In all his iccent public utterances on the subject. The great features of the conference, however, will be the open discussion among the various Governor.! of the Holms brought out by the papers presented. pre-sented. These papers will be vcrv brief, and then the subject will be open for discussion nmong all the Governors, with a. view to getting consensus of opinion i of the whole United Slat3 on the particular par-ticular subject in hand. The interrelation inter-relation of the various Industries as to production. manufacturing. commerce, transportation generally will he prominently promi-nently jjioutrht out. Tho goneral question ques-tion of natlonnl development, will como In, for discussion at all of the sessions. The unity of American Interests will be a prominent note. Valuable Information. It is expected that the vast .-unounL of statistics and other material which tho Inland Waterways commission lias collected col-lected and arranged within the Inst year and which Is to appear for the first time In the appendix to tho preliminary report, re-port, which has not yet been printed owing to Its great volume, will supply a. mass of accurate data bearing Immediately Immedi-ately on the various topics Included In the programme. The subjects of mil and water tr.msportn.tlon will take a very prominent part In the discussion. Indeed, In-deed, It Is expected that tho conference will open its programme with this subject sub-ject A matter of no less importance than navigation will be that of tho development de-velopment of the use of water power. Including In-cluding not only that of the largo streams, but the local use of small streams, and the extension and development develop-ment of electric transmission. The close relation between the improvement improve-ment of tho country's Inland waterways and the conservation of all Its natural resources will be the keynote of the conference. In first creating tha Inland Waterways commission. President Ttooso-volt Ttooso-volt directed that the "aommlsslon shall consider the relations of the streams to the use of all the great permanent natural resources and their conservation for the making and maintenance of prosperous pros-perous homes. With this phase of Its assigned work in mind after the commission commis-sion had proceeded pretty well with its Investigations, it suggested on its trip down the Mississippi river with the President last October, the desirability of holding a conference on the natural resources re-sources of tho Nation. Reasons for Conference. In outlining to the President reasons for the conference the commission said. "Hitherto our natlonnl policy has been one of almost unrestricted disposal of natural resources, and this in more lavish measure than in any other Nation In the world's history: and this policy of the Federal Government has been shared in by tho constituent States. Three consequences con-sequences have ensued; First, unprecedented unprece-dented consumption of natural resources; second, exhaustion of these resources, to the extent that a large part of our available avail-able public lamia have passed Into great estates or corporate interests, our forests for-ests arc so fnr depleted as to multiply the cost of forest products, and our supplies sup-plies of coal and Iron ore are so far reduced as to enhance prices; and third, uncqualed opportunity for private monopoly, mo-nopoly, to the extent that both tho Fed-era! Fed-era! and States sovereignties have Iwcn compelled to enact laws, for the protection protec-tion of the people. "We are of opinion that the time has come for considering the policy of conserving con-serving these material resources on which tho permanent prosperity of our country coun-try and tho equal opportunity of all our people must depend; wo nre also of opinion opin-ion that the policy of conservation Is so marked an advance on that policy adopted adopt-ed at the outset of our national career as to demand the consideration of both Federal and State sponsors for the welfare wel-fare of the people." President to Preside. All the sessions of the conference will be held In the east room of the White House, and for that reason the attendance attend-ance will necessarily bo limited. The seating capacity of the east room is not over 500. The President himself will open tho conference at 10 o'clock of the morning of Wednesday. May 1?.. It Is also expected that he will preside also at the other sessions. There will be two sessions of the conference con-ference each day at 10 o'clock and at 11:30 In the afternoon. On the evening before the conference assembles, the President will give a dinner to the Governors, Gov-ernors, at which members of the Cabinet, Cabi-net, the Supreme court of the United States and the Inland Waterways commission com-mission will be present. A -great public mass meeting on some evening of the conference has been suggested, but It is hardly thought that this will be practicable. prac-ticable. The sessions will continue three days May 13, 11 and 15. The- conference will be made up of the Governors and the three representatives the Governor of each State has been asked to name the Cabinet, the Inland Waterways commission, tho Congress, and the presidents, as tho official representatives, repre-sentatives, of some thirty or forty great national organizations which nro peculiarly pecu-liarly Intcrosted In the question of the conservation of natural resources Just, what the conference will lead to will rest with the conference itself. No attempt has been made to lay down any lines for It to follow. On the contrary, every effort has boon made to Insure free and untnimmcled conference. Tho object of the meeting Is to get down to a practical working basis In the several States on the conservation and use of the Nation's resources. 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