The Florence tribune., 1899-07-08
Al INCORRECT STATEMENT.

AM INCORRECT STATEMENT.
 At the close of the recent Trans Mississippi Congress, in Wichita, dis patch was sent out and published by the press throughout the country, to the effect that Gov. Murphy had won victory, and carried his point in secnr- ing a resolution favoring the cession of arid lands to the States and Territories. The resolutions of the Trans Missis- sippi Congress and the record of its proceedings, as published in the Wichita local papers, do not bear out this press dispatch, that
 ''The action taken had been in the nature of compromise in mittee, rather more favorable to the out-end- out cession of arid lands to the States than to the construction of storage reservoirs by Federal aid, for which $200, 900, 900 was asked. Previous state ments that the resolution passed was an unqualified indorsement of the storage reservoir plan are too sweep ing.
 As we read the resolutions, it would be hard to understand how they could be nude any more sweeping in favor of Federal storage reservoirs. The Trans. Mss sissiepi congress tt 'Fi ta iBdofsed anu aaopsea in full, woru lor word, the resolution of the National Irrigation Congress, which was as fol- lows:
 eve favor the preservation and de velopment of our national resources by the construction of storage reservoirs by the Federal Government, for food protection, and to save for use in aid of navigation .and irrigation the flood waters which now run to waste and cause overflow and destruction, as re- commended in the report of Col. Hiram N. Chittenden, and we urge the adoption of the recommendations of this report as to the construction of storage reservoirs in the arid regions as part of the national policy of in- ternal improvements"
 In substance, as shown by the Irrisa- ton Congress resolutions, indorsed and adopted by the Trans-Mississippi Con gress at Wichita, the policy on which those two Congresses have united is that the Federal Government should build storage reservoirs as internal im- provements; that the States should be empowered to lease all the grazing lands and collect the revenues and ex- pend them in the construction of State irrigation works. leaving the title in the federal Government until actual settlement; that whatever necessary the Federal Government should build the irrigation works to reclaim the arid public lands, and favoring Sta te eession-
 "0nly upon conditions so strict that they will insure the settlement of such lands by actual settlers in small tracts and absolutely prevent their mono9 ] olE h large bodies under private ! ownership
 Ihe resolution enlbodying these strie conditions was passed by the Phoeni1 session of the Irrigation Congress, ant again passed at the Cheyenne session last September, and introduced in thu Trans Mississippi Congress at Wichita by George H. Maxwell, of California with the other Irrigation Congress res olutions.
 GOV. MURpHY's RESOLUTION DEFEATED
 Gov. Murphy, of Arizona, introduced the following resolutions:
 Resolved, That the General Govern ment should by Congressional act re linquish jurisdiction and ownership 0 the arid lands, and cede them to thu States and Territories wherein the, are situated, and this Congress requests the Congress of the United States t pass the proper act ceding the ari lands to the States and Territories ! which they lie.''