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Show BRYAN AND FISHER AT CONSERVATION CONGRESS Kansas City, SepL 27. A speech by Walter L. Fisher, secretary of the interior, in-terior, on "Conservation and the Public Pub-lic Domain," was tho featuro of today's to-day's session of the third National Conservation congress. Henry Wallace, president of the con. gress, had announced that he would lead a letter from ex-President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, explaining the latter's absence from the congress, but up to noon he had not done so. William J. Bryan was a guest of the congress today. Ho will deliver a speech at the nlglt session that will bo "In thorough accord with the spirit of thlB congress," according to an announcement an-nouncement by President Wallace. Secretary Fisher said that, after a conference with President Taft yesterday, yes-terday, he was convinced that he and the presldont are in thorough accord ac-cord in regard to the policy of conserving con-serving the public domain. Ho said the Alaskan situation was discussed at the conference and that he and the Pres'dent wero in agreement as to a "policy lor that jnuch-misropre-" Bcnted country." , Tho secretary said there are two classes of conservationists, so-called. He said one class was composed ot those persons who do much talking and accomplish little except to criticise crit-icise those workers whoBo services are really worth something' to the causo of conservation. There is another an-other class ,he said, whoso members agree on the conservation, movement, but who prevent, instead of promote, the development of our natural resources. re-sources. Tho secretary said he was not in sympathy with either of these classes and that the real development of the resources of the country must bo tho work ot men who aro not in either division. di-vision. , |