The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-07-20

,onds rselsimsa, as required By the
National Irrigation Act
SAVE THE PUBLIC LANDS LOB
HOMEMAKERS.
6. That not another acre Of the pub
lie lands shall ever hereafter be
granted to any state or territory FOR
any purpose whatsoever, or to any one
other than an actual settler who has
built his home on the land and lived
on it for five years, and that no more
land scrip of any kind shall ever be
issued, and that the Desert Land Law
and the Communication Clause Of the
Homestead Law shall be made to con-
form to the recommendations Of the
Public Lands Commission appointed
by President Roosevelt and Of the
Message of the President to Congress.
PLANT FORESTS AND CREATE
FOREST PLANTATIONS.
Z. That the Timber and Stone Law
shall be repealed, and that all pub
lie timber lands shall be included in
permanent Forest Reserves, the title
to the land to be forever retained by
the National Government, stumpage
only Of matured timber to be sold,
and young timber to be preserved for
future cutting, SO that the forests will
be perpetuated by right use; and
that the National Government shall,
by the reservation or purchase Of ex-
listing forest lands, and the planting
Of new forests, create in every state
National Forest Plantations from
which, through all the years to come,
a sufficient supply of wood and timber
can be annually harvested to supply
the needs of the people of each state
from he Forest Plantations in that
state.
CONTROL AND USE OF THN
GRAZING LANDS.
s. That all INDICATED public lands
not otherwise reserved shall be re-
served from location or entry under
any law except the Homestead Law,
and shall be embraced in Grazing Re-
serves under the control of the Secre-
tary Of Agriculture, who shall be en-
powered to issue annual Licenses to
Craze stock in said Grazing Reserves,
but such licenses shall never be issued
for longer period than one year on
agricultural lands or five years on
grazing lands, and all lands classified
as grazing lands shall be subject to
at the end of every five
years; that no leases of the public
grazing lands shall ever be made by
the National Government, and that
the area Of the homestead entry shall
never under any circumstances be en-
larged to exceed 100 acres.
RESERVE STATE LANDS FOR
HOMESTEAD SETTLERS.
8. That the public land states shall
administer the state lands under
system similar to and in harmony
with the national public land system
lbove outlined, and that each state
shall enact a State Homestead Law
'or the settlement of lands owned by
he state, and that state lands shall
)e disposed Of only to actual settlers
1nder such law, and that all state
ands shall at all times remain open
o Homestead Entry.
UNITED OWNERSHIP OF LAND
AND WATER.
10. That it shall be the law Of every
state and Of the United States, that
beneficial use is the basis, the meas
Ire, and the limit of all rights to
water, including riparian rightr, and
hat the right to the use of water for
irrigation shall inhere in and be ap-
'urtenant to the land irrigated, so that
he ownership of the land and the
water shall be united, and no right to
water as a speculative commodity
ver be acquired, held or owned.