The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-07

1924, relating to the REIMBURSEMENT of
reservoir rights, with the privilege of
selecting lien lands, expresses the opin-
ion that Government enterprise for rec"
lamation should not unnecessarily IN
terfcre with prior private enterprises
indorses the Federal department OF
agriculture g experiments in dry farm
ing in the semi-arid regions; recon-
mends the enactment of Federal law
prescribing penalties for unlawful inter,
ference with Federal head gates and
other irrigation works
The committee recommended the fol.
lowing resolution in relation to tariff
on sugar from the Philippines:
'Inasmuch as the sugar beet INDUS
try in irrigated America returns TO our
farmers an annual revenue of over
twenty millions, and as the production
at home of the sugar we now import
from the tropics would afford our far
mers an additional annual market for
nearly $100,000,000 of beets, and as 1T
has been urged that the United States
Congress further stimulate the sugar
Industry of the Philippine Islands to
produce all or a portion of the sugar
we of arid America had hoped to pro
duce
"Therefore we protest against any
further legislative concessions in favor
of Philippine sugar and urge that legls-
lative agitation and attacks on tho
sugar production of this country cease,
that this great industry of arid America
may be fully developed. -
In conclusion the resolutions express
thanks to the people Of Boise for the
manner in which the delegates were
entertained and compliment tho ret1r~
ing officers of the congress.
Another resolution expressed appree-
citation of the interest shown by Presi-
,,rt 3, nn1
nation work and of Vicc-President
Fairbanks g courtesy in coming to ad-
dress the congress.
A resolution introduced nt the in"
stance of persons interested in the
Arkansas river litigation and recon-
nlended for adoption by the committee,
says: "We recommend that the Con-
extension Of the jurisdiction Of the
United States courts to provide for the
judicial determination of water rights
on interstate streams
Minority Report Tabled
A minority report, signed by the
members of the committee asking that
Congress be urged to authorize the is
sue Of two per cent. twenty-year bonds
tabled after long debate, participated
in by a dozen OF more persons, and in
which Senator Dubois of Idaho and
Congressman Reeder of Kansas both
spoke against the proposed amendment,
It was tabled by a decisive vote and
the proposed slogan Of $l00,000,000 for
reclamation went aglimmering.
The plank in the resolution asking
that Jurisdiction over the matters of
Interstate streams be transferred from
The state to the Federal courts was
stricken out, and instead, the chair was
given authority to appoint a committee
Of FIVE, headed by DR.. Elwood Mead,
chief of the Department Of Govern
uent irrigation investigations, to con
slider the object carefully and report
to the fifteenth congress at Sacramento
in 1907.
F. J. Kiesel of Ogden was named as
the Utah member of the new executive
committee aud Fisher Harris of Salt
Lake as vice.president. Two California
men were elected chairman and secre-
tary.
By the adoption Of resolution of
fered by Fisher Harris, the officers of
the congress will hereafter be elected
by ballot by the congress instead of
being chosen by a committee, as at
present.
The congress then adjourned sine die