The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-01-18
PARKER BILL INTRODUCED
in CONGRESS LAST WEEK
Provides for Opening Of Lands Under National
and State Carey Land Acts---Arizona Dele
CATION Working Hard to Secure Its
Passage Before Adjournment.

Assurances have been received by
this paper from members of the Ari-
zona delegation i'm congress that moth
ing shall be left andone ON their part
to secure the passage of the bill pro-
vid.hg for the opening of the unal-
lotted lands in the Colorado River
Indian reservation under the Carey
land acts, before adjournment
of the present session on March 1.
The bill, which is printed here
with in full, was introduced i'm the
house on January Z, and in the
senate on january g. The changes
suggested i'm the old bill by the com
mittee of Parker citizens, who met
with the Arizona congressional dele
CATION at Phoenix early in November,
are embodied i'm the new bill. The
principal change relates to the grant
ing of the right to construct a dam
across the Colorado river to the State
of Arizona, or any company, person,
or association, or corporation who
shall be the successful bidder and
contractor with the state land board.
BY including this concession in the
general bill providing for the open
ing of the lands it will be unneces-
sary to again go before congress for
this privilege.
The recommendation of the state
land board providing for the reim-
bursement to the Greeley-Arizona Ir
rigation company of the moneys ex-
pended by that corporation i'm pro-
tecting it's water appropriations. is
not included i'm the bill, as it was the
opinion of the members of the dele
CATION from this state that the Gree
ley company has no vested rights
worth paying for, hence it's elimima-
ton
AS there will be no serious Objec-
tion to the passage of the bill, it is
confidently believed that it will be-
come a law sometime before March
|. The bill has the unqualified ap-
prevail of the department of the i'm
terror and of the members of the
Arizona congressional delegation. 1t
also has the approval of the Parker
people and of the Indian Rights as
sociatiOn, an organization that gen
erally must be consulted with i'm mat
ters pertaining to the welfare of the
Indians that come before congress for
legislation.
Following is the bill in full, which
has been referred in both houses to
the committee on Indian affairs:
H. r. 27790.
"a bill opening the surplus and un-
allotted lands i'm the Colorado River
Indian Reservation to settlement un-
der the provisions of the Carey Land
Act, and for other purposes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States in Congress assembled
that the provision of section four of
An Act making appropriations for
sundry civil expenses of the Govern
ment for the fiscal year ending June
thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-five, and for other purposes,
approved August eighteenth eighteen
hundred and ninetyfour. and the Acts
ary thereto, known as the Carey
Land Acts, be, and are hereby, ex-
ended over and shall apply to the
surplus unallotted and lmreserved
lands included within the limits of
the Colorado River Indian Reserva-
ton i'm Arizona, and that the Secre-
tary of the Interior be, and he is
hereby, authorized and directed, as
| by this Act provided, to sell and dis-
RADIO River Indian Reservation ly-
ing and being within the State of
Arizona, except such portions thereof
as have been allotted to Indians:
Provided that sections two, sixteen
thirty-two, and thirty-six of the land
in each township therein shall not
be disposed of, but shall be reserv-
ed for the use of the common schools
OF the State of Arizona: Provided
further, that before a patent shall
issue for amy of the lands aforesaid
under the terms of the said Act ap-
proved August eighteenth, eighteen
hundred and ninety -four, and am
endments TIE reto, the State of Ari
zona shall pay into the treasury of
the United States the sum of $40
per acre for the lands so patented.
Sec. 2. That the secretary of the