The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-11-24
BETTER THAN RAIN-MAKlNo.
State Irrigation Commission Suggested
by the Irrigation Congress.

A State Irrigation Commission Suggested
by the Irrigation Congress
trust that all Kansans interested in
the subject of irrigation have read, or
will read, the Address to the People OF
the United States" formulated by the
irrigation congress recently held at Los
Angeles, Cal. One paragraph l wish to
quote. 1t is as follows:
There shall be appointed by the ma
tional executive committee of the irriga-
tion congress a commission for each
state and territory in the arid or semi
arid regions, consisting Of five members
each, who shall be competent and
experienced men. These commissions
shall ut once enter upon careful
investigation of the conditions .ex-
isting in each of their states and
territories, and then formulate plans
looking to the adoption of
national policy to be supplemented
by appropriate local laws. The results
of the Investigations shall be submitted
to the next irrigation congress, at a
time to be designated by the executive
committee mot exceeding one year
hence, and upon these reports the final
and definite declarations of the people
of the western states and territories
may be based. BY this means we hope,
within reasonable time, to suggest a
satisfactory irrigation policy to the ma
tion and to the states and territories
and we hereby declare our purpose to
erect it upon broad foundations of JUS
tice and equity, with due regard for
the rights of both labor and capital"
Inasmuch as the irrigation problem,
when broadly considered, involves
many and diverse questions and inter-
ests, affecting very large proportion,
if not all, of the area of the United
States, and as the various plans brought
forward for its solution have been more
or less crude and most of them more or
less sectional in scope and effect, the
above plan wasadopted of referring the
whole to commissions of five members
each, in the seventeen states and ter
ritories directly interested in the SUBJ
ject. Such commissions will consider
the local bearings and features of the
subject fully and also the national as
pect of the whole from a local stand
point, and should be able to con-
dense the opinions and ideas of the
section represented. In this way it is
expected to secure the fullest and most
thorough discussion, the most careful
attention and the best thought in and
Of all sections concerned, as each state
and territorial commission is expected
to solicit and carefully consider all the
suggestions, plans and ideas of all per-
sons and organizations interested in the
subject. They will also be in constant
communication with all the other COM
missions, throughout their delibera-
tions, so that each shall have the
benfit of the matters presented to
all the rest. In due course, plans,
or policies, of state and national
administration of irrigation affairs
will be formulated by the various
state and territorial commissions, to be
presented to the next session of the
national irrigation congress, which
will be called to meet at some central
point as soon as the various commits
sions are ready to report. At this con-
gress the several plans presented by
the commissions will be carefully con-
sidered and from them it is hoped to
formulate national irrigation policy
which will be clear, comprehensive and
Just to all concerned, and in support of
which all the friends of irrigation
throughout the United States may
unite.
BY virtue of the action of the .irriga-
tion congress and it's executive com.
mittee, it becomes my duty to nominate
four persons to act with me as the irri-
CATION commission of this state. Before
proceeding to make such nominations
(Which will be acted upon by the ma
tional executive committee) l wish to
receive all such suggestions as may be
offered by those interested in irriga-
ton throughout the state. 1t is de-.
sired to have as members of the. COM
mission such men as have knowledge
of the needs of Kansas as regards
irrigation matters and also know
something of the situation as regards
other states, who will be willing to de-
vote time and careful thought and, il
need be, some expense, to the work of
the commission, and who will attend
the session of the national irrigation
congress which is to take under consid-
Grafton the conclusions of the state and
territorial commissions.
With these points in view I ask for
suggestions both as to the membership
of the commission and of matters for:
its consideration, and request the news
papers, especially in the western por-
tion of the state, to lay these facts be-
fore their readers.
J. w. GREGORY,
Member Nat. Elk. Com. for Kansas
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