| Show BALLINGER TALKS ON OIL CONSERVATION Depreciates Hysteria and Ex Ea Excitement With Which Subject Has Been Surrounded AGAINST UP tiP LAND LANDS Open o tn for Settlement twill I III i of lid IMil ilor AgricultureS Agriculture S Portland l Or Dr Aug AuK is Hocy of or tit the Interior It wan vas the guem nT ur I honor and nn l principal speaker nt Itt i a noonday banquet nt at the rooms of ot th lh Iho Commercial club today Ti h secretary Subject was n Practical Con Jj Sues cy Ballinger d l lIhn tho iho and RI excitement wit will which ho he heln I the thc subject of or conserva lion llon had bean surrounded declared hi opposition IIII to 10 the tho locking up UI of oe th tit Alaska coal lands hands IlIn lo coin compelling pel 11 UK tho res real I dents dente of 01 that t territory to Import thol coal lit nt great lOst cost from the states tint Ire l from foreign countries mid and opening ol for settlement chip cap uhlu of lit giving strength and nn l to III the country In agriculture commerce nod and Industry tr Secy t Sec C mild 11 1 What In Is I there It II that calls for foi l bitterness of ot spirit anti and con trillion tenpin Nothing Time Tho explanation o ot popular excitement Is IH In the thu tact fact tim many people have been loll lad to tn bellow that holds hands the tho ecret recce 01 or o our national well being baing The Tho Ih damn doma Rogue gigue the fanatic the thu sentimentalist tho Iho to faddist ful lIst are under tinder the banner of ot conservation mainly because It Is IA popular and holds hold ls time the attention ol ot otI nithe the tho I hour Their energies might In ho equally employed l on any other humor human virtue with the same canto argument hul such Much reformers are arc moro more Ilko lIke torrent generally doing more moro damage by I Hoods than Ihan by hy Uio tho steady How blow of or useful usefull in the tho Ih matter of ot agitation what ha has the doctrinaire accomplished un unless less It lIb be the hysteria of at conservation HUH Has he suggested any practical meth methods methIs oda Is by II way of or legislation for tor disposing dl II ing of the tho remainder lor of ot time the public lands so AO as all to tn Rive give 11 the tile public better hotter safeguards ls against existing abuses The 1110 fact IH Is all tho the l that has been heen made matlo In title this direction has haa been hn d by the tho last Congress an ns the result TO of recommendations In Rioted by b thin title administration IlUS GOVERNMENT OWNER OWNERSHIP slur SHIP Mr Ir lallinger sold said lIal l that Ulal extreme con conservation serration theories In their last analysis mean government ownership own and operation opera operation OP MI tion Ho lie to said they thc proceeded on an the theory that tho the Mates states are not nil to I Ite be trusted to 10 take core care of or their natural resources He said sahl that because some pome of ot the Iho states stated have been blon wasteful or their officers corrupt It dOM does not fol follow follow follow low low that thol no state can cnn safely manage Its Is own awn affairs In n this particular He lie said that In view of the fact t ct that the states own nod and control tho water necessary sary tar for the iho development It would scan om that the most feasible anti and practical methods would bo be to 10 transfer tran cr those these sites pit to the states Intes under proper limita limitations lion Ions to prevent Injurious monopoly lie HI declared that the contention that tho ho Interior department may under any ally existing law exact n 11 charge h rge train from the pUblic for Ute the use of these power fower rites Is s utterly without foundation Taking up the subject of or Alaska coal coni lands lan J ho he called attention to 10 the tact fact that lint with 1300 1 00 square of at known told area IIren containing an nn estimated amount of or tons tone some nomo of tho the very vor best besl quality Alaska buys bu roost most of or her hH cold coul co from British Columbia and und the United l States navy on the ob obtains Hiss Its itA coal con from the Pocahontas fields ls of ot West Virginia at a II cost COAl to 10 tho gov government government oV of ot 17 7 1 p per r ton lon of or which 15 35 5 per ton Is tA represented l by the freight th tit If It t the mines of Alaska were w m In op operation mention coal could Quid bo laid down nt at Portland at from 3 to 10 11 I per por ton Ho said ald Alaska never has hns had hll l adequate n le lawn laws to cover the tho disposition of ot her public lands To make them adequate however Is one ono of ot the burdens bur lenA of this administration which will doubtless l be met and solved tut on H other equally Im Important duties have been solved by b It Secy F declared that he h Is IA apposed to 10 withholding tiny any lands In time the public domain that are capable of giving Iv ing strength and permanent prosperity to 10 the tho country In agriculture commercy or Industry In Justl THU PUBLIC DOMAIN Tho The department of tho the Interior In fa one of or the tho executive branches of ot the gov JOV government government Instituted d by hy law In and there then therefore therefore fore necessarily administered under the Ian said Mid Id Mr The pub puh public lic llo domain was loft left by hy the tho Constitution to the disposition of at Congress and Congress Conre has hOA seen Keen fit nt to authorize tho time interior department under legislative limitations to dispose of ot the public do domain mama main Therefore any an disposition sought to be he made ma Je oan can be bo mode made only In view of the Iho law and within Uio the law All questions of ot policies nil all criticisms re rev sting to all proper distortion I of or public lauds landA must n w be bo referred to In o and controlled by b tho the lawmaking holy hod established by the Constitution It 11 hns a n with many people 1001 cither through oC of these conditions or a n It disposition to Ig hr Ignore note nore them to 10 charge the th Interior do nl with the tho responsibility TIp of ot the of the Ihl public domain regard regardless 11 less ea of ot Its duty to obey and RI keep kl p within the theo statutes of Congress ong Curel upon n my toy eon con on Ml ne 11 m rectitude In the tho th enforcement of ot the the lie paws lawA and regulations on IIA laid IRI down hy by Congress Con e In those particulars the criticisms of the Die Ignorant or the tho mall rlou of the conduct 1 of It the Interior Int de nt are no Impotent and will ill fall rail of nt Interrupting th regular and orderly course coure of conduct laid down on by b the tho law HW for the th administration of ot the pub Im Urn domain |
