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Show -CAUSE f Hi t Clash Coming Between Balling-cr Balling-cr and Pinehot at National Irrigation Congress. FORESTER WILL DEFEND THE RESERVATION SCHEMES Five Thousand Delegates Expected Ex-pected to Be Present When Session Opens Today. SPOKANE, Au 8. A war of words in prospect betwocn Gifford Pinchot, United States forestor, on tho one side and Richard A. Ballinger. secretary of the interior, on the other over tho for-esln- policies of the Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, was the all-absorbing topic about the hotel lobbies tonight' on the eve of the opening of the National irrigation congress. The feeling was expressed that if the question of forest reservation is brou glit up, Mr. Pinchot will defend the Roosevelt policy of reserving forest lauds from the possibility of public entrance, en-trance, and that if he does this Mr. Ballinger immediately will defend his policy of demanding'that much of' the lauds thus closed be thrown open. Much Feeling Manifested. There is much feeling over the matter, mat-ter, and tho prospect of a clash between be-tween Roosevelt's policies and the alleged al-leged determination df Ballinger to cross them has brought discussion to fever heat. Criticism has also been expressed of the action by Mr. Ballinger Ballin-ger in refusing further to permit settlers set-tlers on arid hinds to apply the value of their labor on irrigation projects under way. This policy was inaugurated by Mr. Roosevelt in aid of settlors, and it is urged that the refusal to continue the policy works a hardship on many settlors, set-tlors, who have no other means of realizing real-izing the fruits of irrigation for which they have waited, in some cases, for several years. Jt is expected that Mr. nallingcr will express himself on this point. I u w ooiiHuuition iiiEeiy. A new constitution in prospect, a warm fight over the selection of the next meeting place and the possibility that Governor John F. Shafroth of Colorado will be a factor fac-tor in the campaign for the presidency today occupied the pro-convention thoughts of the delegates to the National Na-tional Irrigation congress, which will convene at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. morn-ing. The new constitution for the congress con-gress is tho result of a friendly warfare war-fare between the executive heads and the board of control for active management. man-agement. At this time business-like management is impossible, according to several officers, because there is nothing noth-ing in the present constitution empowering empow-ering them to act with the desired latitude lat-itude between sessions. Thus it becomes be-comes necessary to follow out tho measures adopted by each ' congress. The new constitution will enable the executive heads In work throughout the year without hindrance caused by insufficient legal powers. San Francisco Pulling. San Francisco, El Paso, Chicago, St. Louis, Pueblo and Rochester aro the more active cities in the race for the next convention. It is said that Denver Den-ver will lend its aid to Pueblo. San Francisco has perhaps the strongest delegation in the field and is advertising adver-tising heavily. While politics in the congress is at this time an unimportant factor, tho name of Governor Shnfroth of Colorado Colora-do is being put forward persistently in connection with the campaign of. the presidenc-. Ii is not known whether President Barstow of Texas will be a candidate again. Tic has held office 0110 term. L. Bacta Neves, chief engineer of the department of public works, state of Minas, Brazil, probably will reply Continued on Pago Two. TEDDY'S POLICIES CAUSE OF TROUBLE Continued from Page One. to the address of welcome on behalf of the foreign representatives. Mr. Neves carries a message from his country to tho congress. China is represented by Moy Back Hiu and Germany by K. 1st Koumanns of Berlin. Don Alberto AH-baud AH-baud represents Chile; II. Uyeno, Japan and Eugene Skorniakoft is hero to represent rep-resent the imperial government of Russia. Rus-sia. James J. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of tho Great Northern railway, has telegraphed that he will not bo present. He has sent a letter, which will bo read. Nearly 1000 delegates were registered regis-tered tonight, and it is expected that nearly 5000 will be in the city before tomorrow night. |
