Show PRESIDENT PR WAS VI AS CRITICISED THERE Second Day in Irrigation Congress Brought Out Discord Officials of Government Government Gov Coy Attacked Attached SACRAMENTO CaL CI Sept 4 Dis' Dis Dis Discordant cor ant notes rang through h tho proceedings proceedings pro pro- of the National Irrigation Congress Con Con- gress gresI yesterday afternoon And tho the name namo of the President also figured prom prominent prominently ly on one occasion tho country's chief executive being referred to in a manner manner man man- ner ncr that meant criticism of his is policy in connection with the tho Owens Vall Valley water water wa ter project There Thero was alto also criticism of policies pursued by other government o officials The Ibe sessions were in marked contrast to those of Monday when words of welcome and the tho beautiful notes of the O Ogden den Tabernacle cho choir r fell foil upon the ears of the thousands gathered yi within hin the canvas can irrigation gathered yi within hin the canvas can irrigation palace With warm weather prevailing prevail prevail- In tog ing tho the diversion helped to stimulate the interest of the lar large laree o audience The first break in the reign of harmany hare bar many came shortly before the tho noon hour After G Gifford Pinchot Government Government Government Govern Govern- ment forester and personal representative tive tivo of President Roosevelt had bad delivered deH i ered an address on Conservation of I Resources Judge J. J E. E Baker of California California Cal Cal- moved that it be bo the sense of the convention that nil all duties on tim Um ber her be repealed in view of tho the statement statement state state- ment of Pinchot that tho the supply of lumber in th this s country would be exhausted exhausted exhausted ex ex- ex- ex hausted within twenty h years rears if nothing noth noth- ing was ilS done to protect it The motion t was seconded It rt was then moved that the resolution bo be rei referred erred to the committee on resolution on in line with the tho plan adopted earlier in the tho day when the motion of Matthew Dougherty of Utah as amended amende by br Jud Judge o Baker was carried This would shut off debate Delegate White Whito Smith of Inyo county California ono one of tho the prominent fi figures ures in tho mo movement that means the tho airing of the alleged ed grievances iov- iov ances of the tho called so-called Kickers from Owens Valley Yuma and other points was at once on his feet He lie realized that tho the adoption of the resolution meant the shutting off of debate Mr of Utah also arose to ask a n question Smith continued to speak and urge urKo tho the rj right ht of ot when ben ho was as rul ruled d out of order by John Henry Smith of Utah who was acting as tem tern temporary chairman The Tho Inyo representative representative representative did not subside for some minutes but bot finally Kiesel asked Pinchot what is being done aono in the tho way of tion The answer was satisfactory but John Fairweather of Fresno brou brought ht matters to an i issue by hy asking Pinchot Are Arc you in favor or of adm admitting lumber freo free into this country In reply Pinchot said You have havo smoked me out He said he ho ha had declined de do- dined to take a public stand on the tho Question for the tho reason that if f the forest service halt hail declared itself in favor favor fa fa- favor fa- fa vor of the tho admission of lumber Jumber free freo into the tho States it would have havo secured the united unitI opposition of the I secured the united unitI opposition of the lumber interests instead of what it has haB now tho the united support of these interests in in- who own four fifths of the tho forests forests for for- forests ests of tho the country It was this latter remark that was used at the tho afternoon session by White Whito Smith when ho he made mado an impassioned talk expressing aUe alleged ed grievances When the close of ot tho the pro ramme was reached it was Wt announced that Geor George e Otis Smith of the geological eolo ical survey survoy had not arrived in in timo time to speak sneak and that any delegate who desired de dc sired to be bo heard beard mi might ht address the eon congress White Smith arose and said he be did not think an any delegate was opposed opposed op op- op posed to reclamation and forestry but rose that hat it was as not a question of what but how He Ho said the tho con congress ress had only heard from one side II Let Lct some man bo be called salT said Smith who may present tho the other side All AU we ask is fair play and that no cut and dried bo be forced down our throats I as one ono delegate demand some voice in the tho proceedings proceed- proceed ings Ass Associate Justice Nave of Arizona sug suggested that Smith be aU allowed owed three three- quarters of an hour to address the tho convention convention con con- and accordingly ho took t the e n J n n J n pf platform rm He said Mid tho the people people- could coull not be bo properly prop erl erly represented in the tho irrigation congress congress con gress eBS ir it men of practical experience did not have havo more voice Referring to the remark t of Pinchot the Inyo county man titan said tho the government officials are evidently afraid to stand stanl forth in tho the interests of the poorer classes as shown chown by the statement that they do not want to gain nin the tho opposition of interests like liko those controlling four fifths of the t timber timber tim tim- mbel m. m ber bel in the United States Smith then turned his attention to President Reese Reese- velt in relation to the tho Owens valley water ater project When TIlen the protests of tho the people of Owens valley taken before blore Secretary Garfield Garfield I said Smith he refused to grant tho the water to Los An Angeles except for municipal purposes The matter later Inter came before the tho President Pres Pres- ident and ho be said While the farmers have hae certain rights these ri rights must bo be d disregarded What ask wo 0 continued Smith is that tho the power of the tho Secretary of or ortho tho the Interior and nd Secretary of A Agriculture ture hue be curtailed Let tho the people know their rights and not be governed by any mans man's will will even en though ho he ho bo president president dent of tho the United Stat States os Fair plais play pla- is all we ask I will also say the delegates delegates dele dele- gates are sovereign so and not the committee commit commit- t- t tee on resolutions The name of Roosevelt Roose figured also algo in the remarks of Governor ex-Governor Pardee of ot California who in in telling of a r ride rido do he had with the tho President when they were checked by hy smoke by brush fires said aidt the President asked the cause of ot the te fires firos and was nas told that lumber lumbermen men w were re responsible Damn the lumbermen t said tIle the I President I being a devout out governor I of California added Pardee I I sai said I amen the President later qualifying his remark b by saying he did not mean all aU tho the lumbermen The remainder of the day was marked b b- b nothing out of the tho pro pro- gramme grammo order Interesting addresses were listened to and committees organ organ- |