The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-05-16

ready granted Idaho should have been prepared to
for their million acres in such a manner as
not only to satisfy everyone but to aid in the passage
of the bill. Idaho did answer in the senate. The
other representatives of the states in the senate
ognzed the justice of Idaho's claims as presented by
its senator's and refrained from making any amend
to the bill but aided in its passage just as it
introduced.
Unfortunately, Idaho is not represented in the
house so far as anyone can discover and so far as
the interests of the state are concerned No one in
side of Idaho outside of it knows who the con-
gresham from the state is far he is connected
with or has influence legislation at Washington.
This objection to the two million acre grant for
both Idaho and Wyoming increased and naturally
There could have been no objection to a million
grant to Idaho for the for it are appar-
ent. We have exhausted the original million acres
and have at least another million acres which can be
reclaimed.
The whole state was interested in the success of
Senator Heyburns measure 1t will be most unfor-
tunate if it fails
The dispatches state that Congressman Mondell has
introduced bill repeating that clause of the Carey
act which limits the amount of land any state can re-
claim under that law. AS amended the bill would
permit all arid and semarid states to take advantage.
of this law until their entire supply of land sus-
Monden is chairman of the committee which has this
legislation in charge. His proposed measure kills
the Hepburn bill 1t cannot pass if it has the oppo
stion of Congressman Mondel. 1t cannot pass with
out the earnest support of Congressman Mondell
The Wyoming congressman cannot possibly secure
the passage of his bill unless he tackS it some
appropriation bill The agricultural and the Indian
and most of the appropriation bills have already
passed the house Even if this were not so; if it
were early in the session and such bill had been
introduced; in judgment it could not pass.
The reclamation service more nearly represents the
administration than do those who chiefly nteres-
ted in the Carey act President Roosevelt urged the
passage of the national reclamation act Had it not
been for his earnest support that great would
not have become law. He appointed the officers to
administer this and he takes great interest in it.
He regards it of the great achievements of
his administration. Nearly every arid and semi
arid state has government irrigation projects under
The irrigation service has many ramhcations, is
a position to grant many favors, and is powerful in
congress- There is a jealousy of Carey act enter
prises by the reclamation people; and in judg
ment the powers of the reclamation service will pre-
vent the passage of law which will allow the states
to reclaim all the government land within its bor-
ders under the provisions of the Carey act. The
passage of this law would make the reclamation SER
vice of secondary Importance By the time the
reclamation service was ready to take up new en-
terprses in addition to those already naugurated
The lands available in many instances would be taken
under the Carey act if all the public lands came
under the provisions of this act as contemplated in
he Mondell bill.
It seems inevitable to us that the Mondell bill will
provoke the antagonism of the reclamation service