1908 



THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE 



239 



S. Howe, Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence, Cleveland, O. 



Society of American Foresters, 

 President, Gifford Pinchot, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Transmississippi Commercial Con- 

 gress, President, J. B. Case, Abilene, 

 Kans. 



United Mine Workers of America, 

 President, T. L. Lewis, Indianapolis, 

 Ind. 



Upper Mississippi River Improve- 

 ment Association, President, Thomas 

 Wilkinson, Burlington, Iowa. 



In addition to the foregoing, invita- 

 tions have been extended to both 

 Houses of Congress, to the President's 

 Cabinet, and to the members of the 

 Supreme Court. 



As has been stated, the Conference 

 will hold its session in the East Room 

 of the Executive Mansion. The open- 

 ing session will be held on May 13, 

 and the Conference will sit until the 

 evening of May 15. 



Primarily the Conference will be be- 

 tween the ' Governors of the several 

 states and territories, with their re- 

 spective advisors ; and in general, the 

 character of the discussions will be 

 determined wholly by the executives 

 present. 



In the interest of convenience, ses- 

 sions have been arranged ; and merely 

 to bring before the conferees the lead- 

 ing facts relating to the natural re- 

 sources of the country, with the view 

 of directing discussion along the most 

 practical lines, provision has been 

 made for opening each session with 

 brief, formal statements. As ar- 

 ranged, the outline follows : 



May 13. 



10.00 a. m. — Conservation as a National 

 Duty, Theodore Roosevelt, President 

 of the United States. 

 2.30 p. m. — INIineral Resources : 



Ores and Related Minerals, Andrew 

 Carnegie. 



Mineral Fuels, Dr. I. C. White, Profes- 

 sor of Geology, University of West 

 Virginia, and State Geologist of vV'est 

 Virginia. 



General discussion, opened by John 

 Mitchell, former President of the 

 United Mine Workers of America. 



May 14. 



10.00 a. m. — Land Resources : 



Soil, Professor T. C. Chamberlin, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, formerly State 

 Geologist of W isconsin, President Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, and Geologist, 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 

 Forests, R. A. Long, President of the 

 Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas 

 City, ^Missouri. 



Public Health, Dr. George M. Kober, 

 Dean of the Medical Department, 

 Georgetown University, Washington, 

 D. C, formerly President of the Medi- 

 cal Society of the District of Columbia. 

 2.30 p. m. — Land Resources : 



Reclamation by Irrigation and Drain- 

 age, Dr. George C. Pardee, former 

 Governor of California. 

 Grazing and Stock-raising, Hon. J. A. 

 Jastro, President of the American Na- 

 tional Livestock Association. 

 The Public Lands and Land Tenure, 

 Judge Joseph M. Carey, formerly 

 United States Senator from Wyo- 

 ming. 



May 15. 



10.00 a. m. — Water Resources : 



Transportation, James J. Hill, Presi- 

 dent of the Great Northern Railway. 

 Navigation, Professor Emory R. John- 

 son, Professor of Transportation and 

 Commerce, University of Pennsylva- 

 nia ; formerly Isthmian Canal Commis- 

 sioner. 



Water Power, H. S. Putnam, American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

 2.30 p. m. — General Discussion. 



It should not be inferred that the 

 above outline covers the entire range 

 of topics to be discussed at the Con- 

 ference, or that discussion will be con- 

 fined to the subjects mentioned in the 

 outline. It is also to be understood 

 that there will be other papers and ad- 

 dresses besides those mentioned in the 

 outline. 



The opening address by President 

 Roosevelt, who will be chairman of 

 the Conference, will strike the keynote 

 of the meeting; and it is planned to 

 have discussions which, while follow- 

 ing the general lines laid down in the 

 outline, will be broad enough to cover 

 the entire field of conservation of na- 

 tural resources. The fact is recog- 

 nized that the three days set for the 

 Conference will be all too brief to per- 

 mit the thorough discussion of the 



