The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-19

three for each side. OF fifteen minutes
duration. An amendment was offered
20 allow free discussion for one hour on
each side. The amendment was lost
and the ORIGINAL motion by Mr.. Max
well was then carried almost mani
mously
Congressman Shafroth Of Colorado
WAS the first sneaker a-ainst the re-
peal of the measures. He Legan by em-
phasizing Inc Importance OF any action
the irrigation congress might take on
the matter and urged deliberate action.
The laws he said. had not been framed
hastily. but were the product of the
best thought Of the best minds Of con-
Eress and had been amended many
times. The majority report. he argued.
offered no substitute or amendment, did
not point out where the laws were de-
fecdve, but proposed to wipe off the
statute books laws that were the ma
ture thought OF many men OF ability
and experience. He read from the laws.
directing attention to land exemptions
and defining what were desert lands
under the bill. There was, he con-
tended. no defect in the measures in re-
gard TO protecting timber lands. The
proposed repeal of the Communication
clause Of tho homestead act, he said
might easily lead to the loss of many
homes and improvements I'm cases
where settlers through sickness or
other unavoidable causes, might be
compelled to leave their homes for
time and argued that the repeal Of the
laws would dwarf the irrigation move
ment.
Montana Ran For Repeal.
Attorney General Donovan Of Mon
tana opened for the other side. The
bill. Mr. Donovan said, provides that
no lands shall be permitted to use Wa
ter under the provisions of the irriga-
ton law unless the lOcatOrs Of the
lands using the water are residents on
the land or adjoining land. DO you
want the spa culatOrs of Colorado. Wyo-
ming Utah. Idaho and Montana TO sell
10 your children and my children the
public domain when they are able to
till the coil or do you want them 10
have the same chance as we when they
are 2Ig ABOUT an that is left ~ she
public domain 10 the people of the
United States he said, is the arid ana
semi-arid lands and the people Of Mon
tana. he argued believe that if the
laws i'm question were ever Of any use
they had outlived their usefulness. IN
less we have some selfish interests 70
serve he said in closing, let us stand
up i'm support of the majority report
and send TO the president Of the United
states the word that this congress is
i'm accord with HIS declarations made
at the opening of the last United States
congress
Congressman MondeH OF Wyomins
began his address by the assertion that
the majority OF the signers of the ma
iority report We're men who lived IN
states that never had an acre Of land
omen 20 entry under the desert land
a.. l.
cisrn OF the statement that it would re-
quire $50 years to exhaust the public
lands at the present ratio of utilizing
them. Mr. MOudell said he had gone
over his figures carefully again and
found that instead of $50 years il would
require about 1870 years. The gtntle-
man from Montana. he said. IN REFER
ring 10 Mr. DoCOvan's speech, evidently
wanted TO leave to his children wastes
OF desert. sage brush and cactus, IN
stead Of smiling fields.
W. r. Suythe of California followed
Mr.. Mondell.
.'The present land law IS one given
the American people 10 keep them
asleep while millions of acres Of the
public domain are being painlessly am
putated." said ne.
He spoke OF q ranch OF 100000 acres
in California. acquired under the desert
been in Utah. he said. il would have
been 10000 farms Of ten acres each
"Sav what you win about the people
OF Utah" he declared, they have been
the empire builders of this western
land II is easier to sneer at that man
whose 9tcture we see thore'-turning
to the portrait OF Brigham Young
"than it is to duplicate his achieve
ments.'
A Baby Carriage State.
ct has been said that the repeal Of
these laws viii reduce the market for
baby carriages. The representative
from Utah in the committee voted for
the repeal Don't YOU think the people
Of Utah know anything about baby car
riages2'
The crowd yelled again.
shall it be the lady or the tiger-the
homebuilder or the SPECTATOR" he went
on. u hope the answer VIII be that
not one acre oe the public land shall
go 20 anybody except the honest home
builder"
Colonel John p. Irish Of California
talked against the repeal. He paid
tribute to Senator Newldnds as "the
best example of the statesmanshiD OF
the west since the DAYS of Thomas
Benton"
Colonel Irish argued that the resolu-
lions urged the repeal of every law
which provides the means for irriga-
ton" He declared that the repeal
would advance greatly the value OF
land scrip held by spectators.
Maxwell's Hot Talk.
George II. Maxwell came next ana
n spoke OF Colonel Irish's argument
about script.
"If the government, through its inn
providence. has made contracts TO give
the Spectator an opportunity to take
100 acres or LOGO acres Of 10000 acres by
fling script without living on the land.
is that any reason why he should be al
lowed TO take another 100 acres or 1850
acres o. he asked.
He asserted that under the timber
and stone act the government had
parted with timber worth Si50.000. 009,
for which il had received only Sl3,000.
0Q0
Turning his attention to Congressman
Mondell for the second time during the
session. he took up the latter's argu-
ment that comparatively little land