TTTE 3I0RXIXO OREGONIAX, TUESDAY, SEFTEMBER 6, 1910. TAFT TELLS STAND ON CONSERVATION President Makes His Policies Clear in Speech at St. Paul Congress. POWER OF STATES SACRED Preside nl's Appoal to Prrtk-l Common Scnco in Sowing of ProMe-m Wins Quick Ho ponse From Audicnc. MINXEATOL.IS. Sept. 5. After speaking- at the Conservation Congrcu In St. I'aul this morning and at t lie Minne sota Slate Fair grounds. outside this t Ity. thla afternoon, President Taft Irft for Beverly to night by way if C'hi raao. In hi conservation address the President won a quick response from his thousands of hearers by an appeal In practical common sense In dealing wltn conservation problems . Xn the opinion of many who heard him he also made answer to the recent agitation of a "New Nationalism." nr a Kcredal centralisation of power, by de claring lhat the only safe course to pursue was to hold fast to the limi tations of the Constitution and to rc- Kar l a sacred the power of the slates. Mr. Taft made frequent references to the serxlces of Theodore Roosevelt in the cause of conservation, hut he de clared the time for rhapsodic and Kiltterins; ceneraltlles had passed, lie suggested to the ton ureas that it should inrlte Its speakers to come down to de tails, to specific evils and to specific remedies. Audience- Itixro to Iccl. These sentiments by the President seemed to receive the approval of near ly all his I carers. They came near the end of Ions: detailed and exhaus tive discussion of conservation, and he ended his speech with the audience on its feet. Mr. Taft did not attempt to solve : e problem of waierpower sites control, as between the states and the general gov ernment, but after statins: the argu metits auvanced on both sides of the subject he said he would submit the whole matter to the Federal Congress for determination. At the fair grounds the President de livered a laxr day address the most notable utterances of which was a statement that he knew of no intention on the part of the (government to pros ecute labor leaders under the antl- trust law. At the same time the Presi dent said he did not believe labor or ganisations should be exempted from such prosecution by specific statute, tie declared that such a provision of law would smack of class legislation. Tuft's Welcome Warm. He did not believe labor organiza tions needed or desired class legislation and he counted on their help in pre venting such legislation. The President received a demonstra tive but not an uproarious welcome at St. Paul. The streets were lined from the depot to the reviewing stand, where Mr. Taft witnessed the passing of the I .a nor day parade. At tho Conserva tion Congress the President .was wel corned with prolonged cheering. After luncheon in St. Paul he rode by auto mobile to the State Fair grounds, and received a tumultuous greeting from throng which filled the grandstand and overflowed Into the racetrack and In field. On the way to the Minneapolis Fair grounds the President was greeted noisily along the road, tie dined at hotel here this evening, informally, and then was driven direct to his train. The President said: Conservation as an economic and poli tical term has come to mean the preser vation of our natural resource for econ omlcal use. so as to secure the greatest good to tiie greatest number. In the de elpment of this country, in the hard ship, of the pioneer, in the energy of the settler, in the anxiety of the investor for t-uii-k return, there was very little time, opportunity, or desire to prevent waste of those resources supplied by nature which could not bo quickly transmuted in to monev': while the Investment of capital was so great a desideratum that the peo ple as a community exercised little or no care to prevent the transfer of absolute ownership of many of tho valuable natu ral re-sources to private individuals, with out retaining some kind of control of their use. The impulse of the whole new community was to encourage the coming of population, the increase of settlement, and t he. opening up of business: and he who demurred In the slightest degree to any step which promised additional de velopment of the Idle resources at hand was regarded as a traitor to hla neigh bor and an obstructor to public progress. But now that the communities have be come old. now that the flush of enthusi astic expansion has died away, now that the wouid-be pionccrti have come to real ize that all the richest lands In the coun try have been taken up. we have per ceived the necessity for a change of pol icy Ld the disposition of our National re sources so aa to prevent the continuance of the waste which has characterized our pnenomenal growth In the past. Today we desire to restrict and retain under public control the acquisition and use by tho capitalist of our natural resources. ConseTvation .Vffct-t All. As President of the t'nitcd States I have, as it Were. Inherited this policy, and I rejoice In my heritage. I prize my high opportunity to do all that an rlxecu tive can do to help a great people realize a great National ambition. For conserva tion Is National. It affects every man of us. every woman, every child. What I can do In the came I shall do. not aa President of a party, but as President of the whole people. Conservation Is not a question of pol'-tlcs. or of factions, or of persons. It is a question that affects the vital welfare of all of us of our chil dren and our children's children, f urge that no good can come from meetings of this sort unless we ascribe to those who take part In them, and -who are appar ently striving worthily In the cause, all proper motives, and unless we Judicially constier every measure or method pro possl with a view to fts effectiveness In achieving our common purpose, and wholly without regard to who proposes it or who will claim the credit for Its adoption. What I wish to emphasize Is that a satisfactory conclusion can only be reached promptly If we avoid acri mony. Imputations of bad faith, and poli tical controversy. I shall divide my discussion under the heads of n agricultural lands: 1 2) min eral lands that is. lands containing metalliferous minerals: 3) forest lands: M coal rands: (& oil and gas lands; and t phosphate lands. There Is no crying need for radical re form In the methods of disposing of what are really agricultural lands. The present . .. - -J- . . - .: - ... ...J t " ' 'ISIIS iiitiHHT' SMiiMnssasl -BBBBB-B--, lssssasssssssaBassssss ariiii; THitKi-: si-.hots oi- pnr.sutKVT tai-t si-kihimi tcopvttn; RKI.OU, M-: T)H ( l.tPr, OF MIWKSOTtl JHK It. UAMKIKI.n, W HO t'Rlk B. hKLLOCU. lass have worked well. The enlarged hi'mcstead law has encouraged the suc cessful farming of lands In I lie s miarld recions. Of course the teachings of t lie Agricultural Department aa to how these suhnrid hinds may he treated and the soil pre-iei-ved for vsffu! culture are of tho very essence of conservation. Then con servation of agricultural lands is shown n the reclammiulon of arid lands by Irri gation and I should devoto a few words to w hat the Government has done and is doing In this regard. ICccluiiiullon Work Outlined. By the rccla ma t ion act a fund has been created of the proceeds of the public lands of the United States with which to construct works for storing great bodies of water at proper altitudes from which, bv a suiiable ss:em of canals and ditches, the water Is to he dtxtrihuted over the arid and miharld lands of the Government, to be sold to settlers at price sufficient to pay for the improve m nts. Primarily, the projects are and must be for the Improvement of public lands. Incidentally, where private land Is al.Mi within the reach of the water sup ply, the f iimlxliing at cost or profit of this water to private owners hy the Gov ernment Is held by the Federal Court of Appeal;' not to he ci usurpation of power. But cerlainlv this ought not to be done except from surplus water, not needed for Government land. About 30 projects have been set on foot distributed through the public land states in accord with the statute, by which tiie allotments from ths reclamation fund are required to be as near as practicable In proportion to the proceeds from the sale of the pub lic lands in the respective states. The total sum already accumulated in the reclamation fund is Jtio.3.2iS. and of that all but $fi.491.&5.34 hB been ex pended. It became very clear to Con gress at its last session, from the state ments made by experts, that these 30 projects could not be promptly complet ed with the balance remaining on hand nr with the funds likely to accrue In the near future. It was found, moreover, that there re many settlors who have been led Into taking up lands with the hope and understanding of having water furnished in a short time, who are left in a most distressing situation. I recom mended to Congress that authority be given to the Secretory of the In terior to Issue bonds In antici pation of the assured earnings by the projects, so that the projects, worthy and feasible, might be promptly complet ed, and the settlers might be relieved from their pre5ent Inconvenience and hardship. I Stairs' Rights Sacred. Suggestions have been made that the mothods of entering for agricultural United States ought to aid In the drain- )iind8. Tne prcCedent he set In this age of swamp lands belonging to the j maUer waa followed hy the present Ad states or private owners, because. if ! ministration. Doubt had been exnressed drained, they would be exceedingly valu able for agriculture and contribute to the general welfare by extending the area of cultivation. I deprecate the agi tation In favor of such legislation. It Is inviting the General Government Into contribution frgm its Treasury toward enterprises that should be conducted eith- 1 er by private capital or at the Instance i of tne state, in incse oays there is a I disposition to look too much tnsthe Fed eral Government for everything. I am liheral In the construction of the Consti tution with reference to Federal power; out I am nmny convinced that the only fe course for us to pursue Is to hold fast to the limitations of the Constitu tion and to regard as sacred the powers of the states. We have made wonderful progress and at the same time have pre served with Judicial exactness the re strictions of the Constitution. There Is an easy y in which the Constitution n be violated by Congress without Ju dicial nhlbitlon. to wit. by appropria tions from the National Treasury for un constitutional purposes. it will be a sorry oa ror tnis country If the time : ever comes when our fundamental com- pact shall be habitually disregarded in this manner. The proposal for the Government to lease such mineral lands anrt denoslt. and to Impose royalties might have been I m tne beginning a good thing, but now that most of the mineral land has been otherwise disposed of it would be hard ly worth while to assume the embarrass ment of a radical change. Nothing can be more Important In the matter of conservation than the treat ment of our forest lands. It was prob ably the ruthless destruction of forests In the older states that first called atten tion to a halt In the waste of our re sources. This waa recognized by Con gress by an act authorizing the Execu tive to reserve from entry and set aside public timber lands as national forests. Speaking generally, there has been re served of the existing forests about 70 per cent of all the timber lands of the Government. Lands Wrongly Reserved. In the present forest reserves there are lands which are not properly forest land and which ought to be subject to home stead entry. This has caused some local Irritation. We are carefully eliminating such lands from forest reserves or where PERSONS PROMINENT AT OPENING OF CONSERVATION CONGRESS. their elimination is not practicable, lift ing tht in for entry under the forest homestead acl. Congrey ought to trust the Kxecutive to us. the power of res- ervatlonv only with resi.tect to land cov - ered by timber or which will be useful in the plan of reforestation. During the present administration 6.23H.O04 acres of land, largely nontimbcrcd. have !een ex cluded from forest reserves, and S..V".""0 acres of land, principally valuable for forest purposes, have been Included in forest reserve." making a reduction in forest rcMcrvra of nontlmbcred land amounting to iTSo.oon Acres. The Government timber In this coun try amounts to only one-fourth of nil the timber, the rest being In private ownership. OnlyMhree per cent of that which is In private ownership Is lokeJ after properly and treated according to modern rules of forestry. The usual de structive waste and neglect continues In the remainder of the forests owned hy private persons and corporations. It l-Aostlmated that Are alone destroys $."0. 000.000 worth of timber a year. The management of forests not on public land is beyond the Jurisdiction of the Federal Government. If anything can be done by law it must be done by the State legislatures. I believe that it Is within their constitutional power to re quire the enforcement of regulations in the general public Interest, as to fire and other causes of waste in the man agement of forests owner! by private individual and corporations. Kxaetly how far these rerrulatlons can go and remain consistent with the, rights of private ownership, It is not necessary to discuss: but I call attention to the fact that a very important part of con servation must always fall upon the State Legislatures, and that they would be better up and doing if they would save the waste and denudation and de struction through private greed or acci dental tires that have made barren many square miles of the older States. Fire Protect Ion Is Needed. I have shown sufficiently the condi tions as to Federal forestry to indicate that no further legislation is needed for the moment except an increase in the fire protection to national forests and an act vesting the Kxecutive with full power to make forest reservations In every State where Government land is timber-covered, or where the land is needed for forestry purposes. . When President Roosevelt became fully advised of the necessity for the change in our disposition of public lands, es pecially those containing coal, oil. gas, phosphates, or water-power sites, he began the exercise of power of with drawal by executive order, of lands sub nft hv Inw In hnmMttiuH iml 1Kb ntha. In some quarters as to the power in the Kxecutive to make such withdrawals. The confusion and injustice likely to arise if the Courts were to deny tho power led me to appeal to Congress to give the President the express power. Congress has compiled. The law as passed does not expressly validate or confirm previous withdrawals, and there fur. ju an an tho new i nn nuuu..i I myself confirmed all the withdrawals j which had heretofore been made by uuin Auminmintiiuiis oy matting mem over again. This power of withdrawal is a most useful one, and I do not think It is likely to be abused. The next subject, and one most Im portant for our consideration, is the dis position of the coal lands In the L'nlted States and in Alaska. The present Congress, as already said, has separated the surface of coal lands, either classified or withdrawn for classi fication, from the coal beneath, so us to permit at all times homustead entries upon the surface of lands useful for agriculture and to reserve ownership in the coal to the Government. Tho ones tion which remains to be considered is whether the existing law for the sale of tht coal In the ground should con tinue in force or be repealed and a new method of disposition be adopted. Public Ouns Third of Coal. Authorities of the Geological Survey estimate that in the l'nlted States today there is a supply of about 3.000.000,000 of tons of coal, and that of this. 1,000. OoO.OuO are In the public domain. Of course, the other H.OOO.OOO.OOO ate within private ownership and under no more control aa to the use or the prices at which the coal may be sold than any other private property. If the Govern ment leases the coal lands and acts as any landlord would, and- imposes condi tions in its leases like those which are now Imposed by the owners in fee Of coal mines in the various coal regions of the East, then It would retain over the disposition of the coal deposits a choice as to the assignee of the lease, a power of resuming possession nt the end of the term of lease, or of read Justing the terms at fixed periods of the lease, which might easily be framed to enable it to exercise a limited but effec tive control In the disposition and sale of the coal to the public. It has been urged that the leasing system has never iit rv HIM, if.or;k (;ntTiMM raim. AI'I'lilAK TUMURKUH', AND been adopted in this country, and that its ndoption would largerly interfere with the Investment of capital and the proper development and opening up of the coal I resouiecs. I venture to differ entirely from this view. Ky the opportunity to readjust the terms upon which the coal shall bo held by the tenant, either at the end of each lease or at periods during the term, the Government may secure the benefit of sharing in the increased price of .coal and the additional profit made by the tenant. By imposing; con ditions in respect to the character of work to be done in the mines, the Gov ernment may control the character of the development of the mines and the treatment of employes with reference to safety. Uy denying the right to transfer the lease except by the writ ten permission Of the governmental au thorities. It may withhold the needed consent when it Is proposed to transfer the leasehold to persons interested in establishing: a monopoly of coal pro duction In any state or neighborhood. As one-third of all tV coal supply Is held hy the Government, It seems wise that It should retain such control over the mining and the sale as the relation of lessor to lessee furnishes. Coat Needs Coal. The investigations of the Geological Survey show that the coal properties In Alaska cover about ll'OO square miles, and that there are known to be available about 15.QO0.O00.O0O tons. This is, however, an underestimate of the coal In Alaska, because further devel opments will probably Increase this amount many times: but we can say with considerable certainty that there are two fields on the Pacific slope which can be reached by railways at a reasonable cost from deep water In one case of about 50 miles and in the other rase of about 150 miles which will afford certainly 6.000,000.000' tons of coal, more than half of which Is of a very high grade of bituminous and of anthracite. It is estimated to be worth, in the ground, one-half a cent a ton, which makes its value per acre from $."0 to l.'iOO. The coking-coal lands of Pennsylvania are worth from J800 to $J000 an acre, while other Appalachian fields are worth from 10 to 1386 an acre, and the fields in the Central States from 10 to $2000 an acre, and in the Rocky Mountains $10 to $500 an acre. The demand for coal on the Pa cific coast is for about 4, 500. 000 tons a year. It would encounter the compe tition of cheap fuel oil, of which the equivalent of 12,000,0(10 tons of coal a year is used there. It is estimated that the coal could be laid down at Seattle or San I-rancisco. a high-grade bitumi nous, at $4 a ton and anthracite at $5 or $fi a ton. The price of coal on the Pacific slope varies greatly from time to time in tne year and from year to year from $1 to $12 a ton. With a regular coal supply established, the ex pert of the Geological Survey, Mr. Brooks, who lias made a report on the subject, does not think there would be an excessive profit in the Alaska coal mining because the price at which the coal could be sold would be consider ably lowered by competition from these fields and by the presence of crude fuel oil. lloosevch's Policies Followed. On November 12. 1906. President Koosevelt issued an executive order withdrawing all coal lands from loca tion and .entry In Alaska. On May 16, 13U7, he modified the order so as to permit valid locations made prior to the withdrawal on November 12, 1906, to proceed to entry and patent. Prior to that date some 900 claims had been filed, most of them said to be illegal because either made fraudulently by dummy entrynien in the interest of one Individual or corporation., or because of agreements made prior to location be tween the applicants to co-operate In developing the lands. There are 33 claims for 160 acres each, known as the "Cunningham claims," which are claimed to be valid on the ground that they were made by an attorney for 33 different and bona fide, claimants who, as alleged, paid their money and took the proper steps to locate their entries and protect them. The representatives of the Government in the hearings be fore the I.and Office have attacked the validity of these Cunningham claims on the ground that prior to their loca tion there was an understanding be tween the claimants to pool their claims after they had been perfected and unite them In one company. The trend of decision seems to show that such an agreement would Invalidate the claims, although under the subse quent law of May 2S. 190S. the con solidation of such claims, was per mitted, after location and . entry, In tracts of I'SfiO acres. v It would be, of course, improper for me to intimate what the result of the issue as to the Cunningham and other Alaska claims is likely to be. but it ought to be distinctly understood that no private claims for Alaska coal lands have as yet been allowed qr perfected, and also that whatever the result as to pending claims, the existing coal-land laws of Alaska are most unsatisfactory and should' be radically amended. To begin with, the purchase price of the land is a flat rate of $10 per acre, al though, as we have seen, the estimate of the agent of the Geological Survey would carry up the maximum of value to $500 an acre. Coast's Needs Realized. In my judgment it is essential in the proper development of Alaska that these coal lands should be opened, and th the Pacific slope should be given the benefit of the comparatively cheap coal of fine quality which can be furnished at a reasonable price from these neids. but the public, through the Govern ment, ought certainly to retain a wise control and interest in these coal de posits, and I think it may do so safely If Congress will authorize the granting of leases, as already suggested for Government coal lands in the United States, .with provisions forbidding the transfer of the leases except with the consent of the Government, thus pre venting their acquisition by a combin tion or monopoly and upon . limitations as to the area to be included In any one lease to one individual, and atv a cer tain moderate rental, with royalties upon the coal mined proportioned to the market value of the coal either at Se attle or at San Francisco. In the last Administration there were withdrawn- from agricultural entry 2. 820.000 acres of supposed oil land in California: about a million and a half acres in Louisiana, of which only 6500 acres were known to be vacant unap propriated land; 75.000 acres in Oregon and 174,000 acres in Wyoming, making a total of nearly four millions of acres. In September, 1909. I directed that all public oil lands, whether then with drawn or not, should be withheld from disposition pending Congressional ac tion, for the reason that the existing placer mining law, although made ap plicable to deposits of this character. Is not suitable to such lands, and for the further reason that it seemed desirabe to reserve certain fuel-oil deposits for the use of the American Navy. The needed oil and gas law is essentially a leasing law. Government phosphate lands are con fined to Wyoming, Utah and Florida. Prior to March 4. 1909. there were 4. 000.000 acres withdrawn from agricul tural entry on the ground that the land covered phosphate rock. A law that would provide a leasing system for the phosphate deposits, together with a provision for the separation of the sur face and mineral rights as Is already pro vided for In the case of coal, would seem to meet the need of promoting' the devel opment of these deposits and their utili zation in the agricultural lands of the West. Prior to March 4, 1909, there had been, on the recommendation of the Reclamation Service, withdrawn from agricultural entry, because they were regarded as useful for power sites which ought not to be disposed of as agricultural lands, tracts amounting to about 4,000,000 acres. The disposition of these power sites involves one of the most difficult ques tions presented in carrying out prac tical conservation. The Forest Service, under a power found In the statute, has leased a number of these power sites in forest reserves by revocable leases, but no such power exists with respect .to power sites that are not lo cated within the forest reserves, and the revocable system of leasing Is, of course, not a satisfactory one for the purpose of Inviting the capital needed to put in proper plants for the trans mutation of power. The subject is one that calls for new legislation. It has been thought that there was danger of combination to obtain possession of all the power sites and to unite them under one control. Whatever the evidence of this, or lack of it. at present we have had enough experience to know that combination would be profitable, and the control of a great number of power sites would enable the holders or owners to raise the price of power at will within cer tain sections, and the temptation would promptly attract Investors and the dan ger ef monopoly would not be. a re mote one. However this may be, it is the plain duty of the Government to see to It that in the utilization and development of all this Immense amount of water power, conditions shall be imposed that will prevent monopoly and will pre vent extortionate charges which are the accompaniment of monopoly. Leases Are Suggested. It is contended that It would relieve a -complicated situation if the control of the water-power site and the control of the water were vested in the same sovereignty and ownership, viz., the states, and then were disposed of for development to private lessees under the restrictions, needed to preserve the interests of the public from the extor tions and abuses of monopoly. There fore, bills have been introduced in Congress providing that whenever the state authorities deem a water power useful they may apply to the Govern ment of the United States for a grant to the state of the adjacent land for a water-power site, and that this grant from the Federal Government to the State shall contain a condition that the state shall never part with the title to the water-power site or the water power, but shall lease it only for a term of years not exceeding 50, with provisions in the lease by which the rental and the rates for which the power Is furnished to the public shall be readjusted at periods less than the term of the lease, say every 10 years. The argument Is urged against this disposition of power sites that legis lators and state authorities are more subject to corporate influence and con trol than would be the central Govern ment. In reply, it is claimed that a readjustment of the terms of leasehold every ten years would secure to the public and the state just and equitable terms. Then it is said that the state authorities are better able to under stand the local need and what is a fair adjustment in the particular locality than would be the authorities at Wash ington. It has been argued that after the Federal Government parts with title to a power site it cannot control the aotion of the state in fulfilling the conditions of the deed; to which it is answered that in the grant from the Government there may be easily in serted a condition specifying the terms upon which the state may part with the temporary control of the water-power sites, and, indeed, the water power, and providing for a forfeiture of the title to the water-power sites in case the condition Is not performed, and giving to the President, in case of such viola tion of conditions, the power to declare forfeiture and to direct proceedings to restore the central Government to the ownership of the power sites with all the Improvements thereon, and that these conditions may be promptly en forced and the land and plants for feited to the general Government by suit of the United States against the state, which Is permissible under the Constitution. 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It's Outfitting will he a busy week for mothers. Still, we can help you mafe shopping easy. School apparel for boys and girls will be displayed in all departments, placarded so as to attract your attention to quality and cost. Come and Get The New Pellard Suits The New French Millinery The New Fall Silks The Novelty Dress Fabrics The New Leather Goods The Fall Neckwear and Laces The Charming New Trimmings New Goods All Over the Store " controversy thus made or a preference as to the two methods of treating water- power sites I shall submit the matter to Congress and urge that one or the other of the two plans be adopted. I have referred to the course of the last administration and of the present one in making withdrawals of government lands from entry under homestead and other laws and of Congress in removing all doubt as to the validity of these with drawals as a great step in the direction of practical conservation. But it is only one of two necessary steps to effect what should be our purpose. It lias produced status quo and prevented waste and Irrevocable disposition of the lands until the method for their proper disposition can be formulated. But it is of the utmost importance that such withdrawals should not be regarded as the final etep in the course of conservation, and that the idea, should not be allowed to spread that conservation is the tying up of the natural resources of tho Government ' for indefinite withholding from use and the remlifslon to remote, generations to decide what ought to be done with these means of promoting present general human com fort and progress. I beg of you in your deliberations and In your informal discussions, when men come forward to suggest evils that the promotion of conservation is to remedy, that you Invite them to'point out the spe cific evils and the specific remedies: that you invite them to come down to details in order that their discussions may flow into channels that shall be useful rather than into periods that shall be eloquent and entertaining, without shed- ing real light on the subject. The peo ple should be shown exactly what is needed In order that they make tlielr representatives In Congress and the state legislature do their intelligent bidding. Telephone Kxperts Meet. PARIS. Sept. 5. Alexander Millerand. Minister of Public Works. Posts and Telegraphs, today opened the second In ternational Congress of Telegraph, Tele phone and Technical Experts. Several American companies are represented at the gathering. 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