The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1911-01-19
OBJECT TO APPORTIONMENT
Western Senators Seeking to
Have Revision Brought
About.

The carving of the reclamation
melon is being seriously objected to by
the congressional delegations from
states in the west, that did not receive
what is considered fair pro rata of
the general fund. The bond fund being
special fund, is not concerned in
these protests that are falling thick
around the president and his secretary
of the interior, but they have to do
with the apportionment of the general
fund, from which, according To the
first figures, Idaho will receive 81, 49,
435. the largest sum allotted to any
state, while Wyoming will receive over
SIS, 000,0 900. Other states, notably,
Oregon, Washington and California,
are sending up an awful yell about the
lemons thrown their way, while Me-
vada is well satisfied with its portion.
If the following dispatch is correct,
it remains for Nevada's delegation in
Washington to exert every effort pos
sible in retaining for Nevada the ap-
preparation of 81, 594, 600, which is the
tentative allotment made by the presi-
dent upon the recommendation of his
subordnates.
ut has become apparent to Presi-
dent Taft and Secretary Ballinger that
the appropriation of irrigation funds
tentatively made on December 26 is
both impracticable and inequitable, and
it has practically been decided that a
general reappropration will have to be
made. Especially will it be Necessary
to readjust the allotments of the $25,.
600, 900 fund, which represents incre-
ment to the regular reclamation fund
for the years 1911 to 1914 inclusive.
There may be few or no changes in the
apportionment of the $40, 600, 900 fund.
Washington and several other states
with real, live senators are asking for
and demanding more money. Washing
ton received $l3, 900 out of the $25, ,0O0,-
900 fund and California got nothing
from either fund. Both these states,
through their senator's, will insist upon
having fair share of this money.
'It may be some little time before the
reappropriation is finally made, but Mr..
Ballinger has discovered that the plan
recommended by the army board will
result in all kinds of difficulties, if adj
hered to, and he expects, with the CO.
operation of the reclamation service,
to prepare a new plan of apportion.
ment that will place the money where
it can be used to best advantage.
THE apportionment suggested by the
army board commits the government to
several extremely costly and compare.
lively unattractive projects which will
require $45, 900, 900 in addition to the
S45, 900, 900 recently apportioned, to
complete them. Should this program
be carried out, the government could
undertake no new projects, other than
those approved by the board until 1924
or 1925, and Oregon would be left out
in the cold along with Washing
ton, California and several other
western states that have contributed
heavily to the reclamation fund.-"
There is small chance for Nevada's
portions from the general and bond
fund being disturbed, and with both
our senators on the irrigation commit
tee, the chance is still more remote, so
that whatever adjustment is made will
affect those states sharing more liber-
ally in the first apportionment of the
general-fund, which is now said to be
purely tentative. The only concern
that Nevadans have in this fight over
the melon is to see to it that the sums
allotted us are not reduced.
Inasmuch as 81, 250, 900 has already
been set aside by the secretary of the
interior as special fund to defray the
expense of installing the Lower Carson
dam, presumably from the general
fund, and no change is contemplated in
the disposition of the bond fund, no
material change can be made affecting
this project, but at any rate, it is a
duty of this states congressional dele
cation to stand pat and not go to sleep,
while other state delegations are
striving for a re-apportionment.