NEW COMMISSION AT WORK 



Permanent Organization Completed at Chicago— Corrected Member/' 

 ship of the Commission — First Work Now Under Way 



OVERSHADOWED, in the press 

 dispatches, to a considerable de- 

 gree by the news of a great 

 national political convention being held 

 at the same time, the executive com- 

 mittee of the National Conservation 

 Commission met in Chicago on June 

 19 and perfected its organization. The 

 first work of the Commission — that of 

 taking an inventory of the Nation's 

 natural resources— has already been 

 put under way, and a report, to be 

 presented at the meeting to be held in 

 Washington next December, will be 

 made from the findings of this "in- 

 voicing" committee. 



As finally organized, the membership 

 of the new Commission follows : 



WATERS 



Hon. Theodore E. Burton, Ohio, 

 chairman. 



Senator Francis G. Newlands, Ne- 

 vada. 



Senator William B. Allison, Iowa. 



Senator William Warner. Missouri. 



Senator John H. B'ankhead, Ala- 

 bama. 



Mr. W. J. McGee, Bureau of Soils, 

 secretary. 



Mr. F. H. Newell, Reclamation 

 Service. 



Mr. GifTord Pinchot, Forest Service. 



Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, Bureau of 

 Corporations. 



Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell, Louisiana. 



Prof. George F. Swain, Institute of 

 Technology, Massachusetts. 



Brig. Gen. William L. Marshall, 

 chief of engineers, U. S. Army. 



FORESTS 



Senator Reed Smoot, Utah, chair- 

 man. 



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Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Indiana. 



Senator Charles A. Culberson, Texas. 



Hon. Charles F. Scott, Kaasas. 



Hon. Champ Clark, Missouri. 



Mr. J. B. White, Missouri. 



Prof. Henry S. Graves, Yale Forest 

 School, Connecticut. 



Mr. William Irvine, Wisconsin. 



Ex-Governor Newton C. Blanchard, 

 Louisiana. 



Mr. Charles L. Pack, New Jersey. 



Mr. Gustav Schwab, National Coun- 

 cil of Commerce, New York. 



Mr. Overton W. Price. Forest Serv- 

 ice, secretary. 



LANDS 



Senator Knute Nelson, Minnesota, 

 chairman. 



Senator Francis E. Warren, Wyo- 

 ming. 



Hon. Swagar Sherley, Kentucky. 



Hon Herbert Parsons, New York. 



Ex-Governor N. B. Broward, 

 Florida. 



Mr. James J. Hill, Minnesota. 



Ex-Governor George C. Pardee, Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Mr. Charles Macdonald, Am. Society 

 of Civil Engineers, New York. 



Mr. Murdo Mackenzie, Colorado. 



Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, University of 

 Chicago. 



Mr. Frank C. Goudy, Colorado. 



Mr. George W. Woodruff, Interior 

 Department, secretary. 



MINERALS 



Hon. John Dalzell, Pennsylvania, 

 chairman. 



Senator Joseph M. Dixon, Montana. 



Senator Frank P. Flint, California. 



Senator Lee S. Overman, North Car- 

 olina. 



