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Show I INTERESTED IN ! I FUTURE OF 1ST; Conservation of (he Resources of the West the Keynote of Trans- j Mississippi Congress. Prominent Men Censure the Policy Which Has Resulted In the Squan-derlng Squan-derlng of National Resource!, and Point Way to Reme-dial Reme-dial Legislation. San FrnnclBca. Asserting tlio I lights nf unborn generations of Amor- leans and censuring tho iollcy that has squandered with prodigal reck-lessnesH reck-lessnesH tho forests and hinds, tho waters and tho minerals upon which the future prosperity of tho west de-pends, de-pends, half n score of speakers on Wednesday placed before tho dole-gates dole-gates to tho nineteenth TrnnsmlHslB-tlppl TrnnsmlHslB-tlppl congress tho rccordB of con-biimptlon con-biimptlon and wnsto established by tho pioneers and their sons In the utHt and pointed the way to economic conservation and remedial legtsla-tlon. legtsla-tlon. Hxccpt for a brief porlod ul-lowed ul-lowed for tho Introduction of resold-lions, resold-lions, mnny of which were present-cd, present-cd, tho entire day was dovoted to nddrcsses of this character, somo lm-jtmvlsed lm-jtmvlsed upon the call of President J. B. CaBO, but tho majority constitut-lug constitut-lug tho regular programme ami show-Ing, show-Ing, by careful compilation of facts rnd llsurcs, tho tlmo expended In their preparation. The governor of one state, the at torney genoml of nnother, the presl-dent presl-dent of n university, and tho trntllc director of a great railway system succeeded ono another upon the plat-form, plat-form, and each, from his own partlc-ular partlc-ular standpoint, paid IiIh trlbuto to western America and Its people nnd Indicated somo stop onwnrd somo r.hort cut avenuo toward Its ultlmato I destiny. The Interest and earnest- iiess of tho largest attendance of nny j previous session wns mnnlfcsted throughout tho extended scries of ad-dresses ad-dresses by an unflagging attention and discriminating outbursts of ap- The reception accorded the tuldress 1 of J. C. Stubbs, tralllc director of tho Bk llarrlman lines, who arrived Toes- day night from Clilcngo to convey to the congreRR the regrets of Mr. K. 1 71. Hnrrlman at his Inability to nt-tend nt-tend nnd to assumn the place ou tiro program reserve for Mr. Hnrrlman, was perhaps tho feature of tho day's , deliberations. In tho coiii'ho of his ! remnrkB, Mr. Stubbs reviewed, from i tho days of earliest construction, tho Intimate associations existing be-tween be-tween tho extension or transportation 1 (ncllltles and the regions tlroy ro-; rlalmed from tho wilderness. Ills , clear-cut references to tho Panama c.v j mi, to the merchant marlno nnd to ; other subjects which tho Tronsmlssls-hlppl Tronsmlssls-hlppl congress had adopted as Its own 1 problems. Impressed mnny nf tho del- : egates with tho belief that the sentl- j ments expressed wero Inspired by a ' sincere dcslro on the part nf tho j transportation Interests of the conn- j try to cooperate In the plans for , western advancement. |