Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1908 — GOVERNORS MEET AGAIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOVERNORS MEET AGAIN

Conference on Conservation Calls Them Together. IN WASHINfiTON TODAY Distinguished Men From All Parts of America Assemble to Put Into Bhape Report on the Country’s National Wealth to Be Submitted to President Roosevelt Jan. I—Water, Lands, Forests and Minerals the Topics of Discussion—Retiring-, and Incoming Presidents to Speak. ■ "I • . ’ • Ll ; Washington, Dec. B.—Not since last May, when the governors of the states met here in response to the Invitation of President Roosevelt to discuss the question of the conservation of the nation’s resources, tas the national capital been the scene of so notable a gathering as that which assembled here today. The governors of the" states are again here, either in person or by proxy, with other distinguished men. The purpose of their meeting is a joint “conservation conference” with the na tional conservation commission In order to get under way the most important part of the work of the conference—the report to the president on the national resources. The report is due Jan. 1. Roosevelt and Taft to Speak. Today's sessions began this morning with an informal meeting in the red room of the Willard hotel for the purpose of organizing. This afternoon there will be a great general meeting in the Belasco theater, at which President Roosevelt and President Elect

Taft will be among the speakers who will address the members of the joint conservation conference, the rivers and harbors congress, the southern commercial congress and other organizations with allied objects whose sessions in Washington help to make up what has been called “conservation week.” After the opening session the joint conference will take up its business in earnest at the Hubbard Memorial hall. The plan is to take up one after another the main subjects which the national conservation commission under Chairman Gifford Pinchot has been studying—waters, lands, forests, minerals. Meeting of Distinguished Men. J. J. Hill, John Mitchell, Andrew Carnegie and a score of other representative men hate accepted invita* tlons to be present. Since the conference seven months ago, when the president quickened the interest of the entire nation in one of its most perplexing problems, the national conservation commission has made an Inventory of the natural resources of the country. This inventory will be presented to Chairman Pinchot, who in his report to the president Jan. 1 will make recommendations which both the work of the commission and the joint conference may suggest, as vital,ln solving the conservation problem. The inventory Is completed now as far as present knowledge can go.

GIFFORD PINCHOT.