Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-09-01
IMMIGRATION, IRRIGATION,
TARIFFS, TRUSTS AND
STRIKES.

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some bill containing its essential fea-
lures, would be passed at the next ses-
sion OF Congress.
MIR. Newlands said that the principal
features of the bill were that it devoted
all the proceeds of the sale OF public
lands of every kind, including timber
lands and mining claims, to a special
fund in the treasury to be called the
arid Land Reclamation Fund.-" and
instructed the Secretary of the Inter-
ior to Immediately commence the con-
struction of irrigation works, with the
power to withdraw from general entry
all lands subject to irrigation by such
works, and providing that such lands
should be entered under the Home
stead Law and that the price be so fix
ed as to give compensation to the gov
eminent in a period of ten years, for
the cost Of the enterprise; the set
tiers to make payments in ten annual
installments and such payments to go
into the Arid Land Reclamation Fund
and to be devoted to new projects.
Every guard was presented in the
bill against land monopoly, the purpose
being to preserve the public land for
the homes of actual settlers and to
give each settler only enough land to
enable him to support his family.
Mr. Newlands' view was that during
the first year, about 100000 would
be secured for this work, and that this
sum would continually increase until it
reached $4,000, 900 or $4,000, Ooo per
annunl, thus ensuring within the next
ten or fifteen years an expenditure in
the arid west in storage and irrigation
works by the government, OF ubou.
$Ico, 600, 900; the fund was a revolving
iund which steadily increased as the
sales to settler; Increased, and thus the
West would reclaim itself without call
ing upon the Federal Treasury
AS an instance of the general inter-
est written in the bill. Mr.. Newlands
said: That lie was approached By
quite number OF congressman from
Minnesota and Wisconsin and other
adjoining states who told him that
President Hill OF the Great Northern.
had written them personally stating
that he had read the Newlands bill and
that he regarded it as the best pos
slble solution OF the irrigation ques-
ton, and urging upon the members OF
Congress from those States to support
it as measure tending to the develop
mcnt of the arid West"
Mr.. Newlands stated that he hoped
that other great transportation inter
ests engaged in transcontinental trail
fic would be as far sighted as Mr. Hill!
and would use their powerful influence
in irrigation legislation; that it meant
as much to the railroads as it did to
the people Of the arid west and that
hundred, thousand and millions OF
settlers from the East who would ul-
timately make homes here
THE CHINESE.
The reporter found Mr.. Newlands
fully alive to the importance of the
Chinese question. He said that he
had no doubt but that strong eff
fort would be made to prevent the re-
enactment of the Chinese Exclusion
Act. He had always been strongly
against Chinese immigration and ex-
perience had shown that the Chinese
| with their cheap mode of living and
their tireless energy were able to alb
sorb and control every industry which
they invaded. This necessarily is either
race war or the Chinese monopoly
| OF many classes of labor or the degre-
| dation of American labor to competi-
ton with Chinese labor in cheapness
of living and cheapness of wages Mr..
Newlands said that he had always
been opposed to the annexation of the
Philippines for the reason that it
brought under our government 10000
600 of inferior people, not white and in
capable of assimilation with the white
race. He believed in devoting this
country to the development OF the
white man; we had serious
problem in the black race which con-