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Carter championed it as chairman of the sub-committee 

 of three named to draft a resolution covering the ground. 

 Judge J. E. Eaker, of Modoc County, California, at- 

 tacked the resolution, stating that it was an unjust re- 

 flection on the association and that mention therein of 

 the irresponsibility of the congress for the collection of 

 money by the association in the name of the congress 

 was not justified by the facts. 



Debate became heated. Scipio Craig, of California, 

 joined Judge Raker in the protest against the resolu- 

 tion, and others aligned with them. 



MAXWELL'S NAME CUT OUT. 



Senator Carter insisted on the resolution, and final- 

 ly consented to eliminate the name of Mr. Maxwell. 



Judge Raker attempted to induce the committee to 

 accept several amendments, each of which failed. 



C. B. Boothe, chairman of the executive committee 

 of the congress, and also chairman of the board of di- 

 rectors of the association, was called to the room, and 

 declared that all insinuations that the association had 

 ever collected money in the name of the congress were 

 false. He called upon some one to father the assertion 

 that money had ever been collected in that manner. 



Senator Carter stated that he had not said that 

 money had been so collected, but that the people in his 

 State had been given to understand that the association 

 was the father of the congress and in a measure re- 

 sponsible for its acts. 



After several hours of debate the resolution of 

 Senator Carter, with Mr. Maxwell's name eliminated, 

 was adopted as follows : 



WHEREAS, The National Irrigation Congress con- 

 sists of an association of persons selected annually by 

 designated State and other authorities to meet annu- 

 ally to consider questions relating 1 ' to the reclamation 

 of the arid lands of the country, and 



WHEREAS, The delegates so selected attend the 

 annual congress at their own expense and without 

 compensation, and 



WHEREAS, Said congresses are not engaged in the 

 collection of money, and 



WHEREAS, The impression prevails to some ex- 

 tent that the so-called National Irrigation Association 

 is connected with and authorized by the National Ir- 

 rigation Congress to collect and disburse money, and 



WHEREAS, No connection nor authority exists, 

 therefore for the purpose of correcting an error be It 



RESOLVED and announced that no person nor as- 

 sociation of persons is in any manner authorized to 

 solicit or receive any money or contribution of any 

 kind for or in behalf of the National Irrigation Con- 

 gress. 



The resolutions committee met Tuesday night and 

 had a stormy time. Reflections were made against the 

 sincerity of the Government reclamation engineers and 

 the insinuations were resented by Judge Raker, of Cal- 

 ifornia. 



In the forestry section Gifford Pinchot presided, 

 and papers were read by E. A. Sterling on "Tree 

 Planting Along Irrigation Canals and Around Reser- 

 voirs" ; Frank Lamb on "Disposal of Timber Lands cf 

 the West"; J. M. Lawrence on "Forest Reserves and 

 Grazing." 



In the section on production by irrigation, Dr. 

 A. C. True presiding, papers were read by Professor 

 Gordon H. True, Nevada Agricultural College, on "An- 

 imal Production" ; Dr. James Withycombe, of Corva-llis, 



and C. F. Saylor, United States Department of Agri- 

 culture, on "Dairying and Sugar-Making"; President 

 E. A. Bryan, of Pullman Agricultural College, Wash- 

 ington, Prof. H. T. French, of the University of Idaho, 

 and Congressman W. A. Reeder, of Kansas, on "Educa- 

 tion for Irrigators." 



In the climatology section Maj. Alfred F. Sears Sr., 

 of Portland, spoke on "The Coast Desert of Peru," and 

 several other papers were read. 



ENGINEERING AND MECHANICAL SECTION. 



An important paper was read before the engineer- 

 ing and mechanical section of the congress in the Amer- 

 ican Inn by E. I. Davis, engineer in the United States 

 Reclamation Service, and entitled "The Umatila Proj- 

 ect." By means of a large wall map the speaker illus- 

 trated the more important points of his speech. 



The meeting was opened by the chairman, Freder- 

 ick H. Newell, chief engineer of the United States 

 Reclamation Service. Irrigation in general, including 

 all the various phases of the subject, were touched upon 

 by him. 



Charles D. Walcott, director in the Reclamation 

 Service, gave a sketch of irrigation as carried on by the 

 Government from the first days of the scheme to the 

 present day. "The propaganda for national irrigation," 

 said the speaker, "was pushed forward at all times in 

 season and out of season by Major John Wesley Powell. 

 From 1874 to 1892 it was always in his mind, and no 

 amount of discouragement or defeat could convince him 

 that it was not a wise thing for the nation, and that 

 a full measure of success would come in due time. 



"Irrigation was in disfavor at the capital in the 

 earlier days. A new and powerful force was added to 

 the irrigation movement by the succession of Theodore 

 Roosevelt to the Presidency. June 17, 1902, he signed 

 the Reclamation Act and thus closed the long contest 

 for recognition and national aid in the irrigation of 

 the lands of the arid and semi-arid States and territo- 

 ries. 



"During the last three years the difficult organiza- 

 tion of a body of men whose field of operations covers 

 so large a territory has been perfected and precedents 

 established along approved lines. Construction is now 

 in progress on eleven projects. These are as follows : 

 Salt River, Arizona ; Yuma-, California ; Uncompahgre 

 Valley, Colorado; Minidaka, Idaho; Huntley, Montana; 

 North Platte, Nebraska; Truckee-Carson, Nevada; 

 Hondo, New Mexico; Fort Buford, North Dakota; 

 Belle Fourche, South Dakota ; Shoshone, Wyoming. 



"The following projects have been approved by the 

 Government: Klamath, Oregon; Milk River, Montana; 

 Buford Trenton, North Dakota; Bismarck, North Da- 

 kota, and Okanogan, Washington. The Reclamation 

 Service is constantly being importuned to make sur- 

 veys in all parts of the country and expend money 

 broadly. 



"The time has arrived, however, when it is neces- 

 sary to limit general surveys, as there is not enough 

 money in the fund to construct more than one or two 

 projects in each State or territory. 



"The estimate of returns to the Government from 

 irrigation, as given in the last quarterly statement;, was 

 that the receipts during the fiscal years of 1905 and 

 1906 would together equal those of 1904, $6,826,000, 

 and that the increment thereafter would average $2,- 

 000,000 annually. Should this estimate be verified by 

 the experience of the next three years, the entire re- 



