Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-04
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Text Of Representative Wanderers IT.
risatiOn Bill.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Reservation Looking to the Pur.
chase of Silver Of Home
Product.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE zzoosD.us1os.,
IRRIGATION BILL.
Text of a Measure Introduced by Repre-
sentative Vandever,

Text of Measure Introduced by Repre-
sentative vandever.
WASHINGTON, December 3d.-Below is
the text OF Fandeyer's bill introduced Mon
day. 1t was impossible to accomplish anv
irrigation legislation last session, but the
Clerk OF the House Irrigation Committee
says he would not be surprised if an irriga-
ton bill passes this Congress:
Section l. The Secretary of the Interior shall
cause the arid lands of the United States, where
irrigation IS necessary for successful agricult-
ure, to be surveyed and plated into irrigation
districts in such a manner that each district
shall consist of basin for the collection stor-
age and distribution of the water TO be used in
irrigation, together with g cstchment area and
sites for reservoirs on all rrigable lands on which
the waters of such irrigation districts can be
used for irrigation.
Section 2 That lands embraced in the irriga.
ton districts as herein provided shall be ceded
TO the several States and Territories in which
they are situated for the purpose of reclama.
ton and settlement upon the following condi-
tions, to wit First-It shall be incumbent upon
the State or Territory to provide that the quail
fed voters OF each irrigation district may Or
ganize as body corporate and polite. for the
purpose of controlling water for irrigation and
other beneficial purposes and for the eoustruc-
ton of irrigation works be any of methods to
wit: First, by the sale Of irrigable lands: sec
oud, by the cooperation ofIhe PEOPLE interested
therein; third, by taxes levied on the lauds IL
rigated; fourth, by the issuance of irrigation
district bonds, the interest and principal to be
paid by taxes levied on the lands irrigated;
fifth, by granting to persons and corporations
the light and imposing them the duty of
supplying water for irrigation and other benefi-
cial purposes through the agency of irrigation
works for term OF ftwenty-seyen years, and by
further providing that at the expiration of such
term OF twenty-seven years from the beginning
OF the fiIss service of water the rights and
duties OF such persons or corporations shall
terminate, and such irrigation works shall
thereupon become and be the property of the
respective irrigation districts to which they
pertain; then in such case the people of each
irrigation district in their corporate capacity,
may use ana control the reservoirs and SITES for
storage. of water for agricultural and other
beneficial purposes. Second-It shall be incUm-
bent upon the State or Territory to select suit
able irrigable lands, TO be disposed of by the
State or Territory, as hereinafter provided. and
the residue of lands in the irrigation districts
shall be declared timber lands and pasturage
lands, to remain the inalienable property of the
State or Territory as catehment areas for water
to be used in irrigation.
Section 8. Any state or Territory in which are
situated any OF the irrigation districts provided
for in this Act shall have authority to dispose
OF the irrigable lands by sale TO actual settlers
the proceeds of such sale to be used IN the con-
struction of irrigating works necessary for their
reclamation. 1
Section A. That any State or Territory in which
are situate any of the irrigation districts pro.
vided for in this Act shall have authority to
provide by statute for the use and protection of
the forests of timber lands and the use and pro.
lection Of the grazing on pasturage lands by
citizens OF the irrigation districts.
Section 5. That this Act shall not be construed
to convey 10 the states or Territories any min.
ing lands or coal lands included in the timber
aud pasturage lands, but such mining and coal
lands shall be subject to requirement under the
statutes of the United States providing for their
disposal.
section G. That whenever the Governor of any
State or Territory wherein are situate any of
the irrigation districts provided for in this Act
shall have certified to the President of the
have been complied with By such State OF Ter
ritory, and shall have properly exempliied the
same, and if the President shall find that such
provisions have been properly complied with,
he is hereby authorized to issue his proclama-
ton setting forth the facts and declaring that
such State or Territory, and the people of such
irrigation districts. are entitled to the benefits
OF this Act and thereupon it shall have full
force and effect.