Arizona republican., 1914-11-03
Every Man Expected to Keep Faith," Says Con- gressman, for .Authori- ties Are Human and Only Want Square Deal.
TIME EXTENSION
 AND COAST SURVEY
Both These Important Is sues Discussed by Repre- sentative for Benefit of Council and Board of Water Users.

Water Users.
 1 Every cost statement made on a IneW project by the reclamation ser vice has been greatly underestimated
 The distribution of reclamation funds under the executive plan has not been total success, but it is not certain that the finance committees of the house and senate can do any bet jter
 Those were the hot bricks" of 1 Congressman Carl Haydens explana- = tory speech to the joint meeting of the board and council of the Water | Users Association yesterday after noon Taking the time extension bill and the plan of Secretary of the In- terior Franklin K. Lane to have a cost survey made of every project, MT. Hayden detailed things to the assem- l bled irrigators in a way that left lit | tie to be brought out in the after math of questions that the speaker | invited at the close of his address. MT. Hayden said in effect that the men who are administering the recla = nation service are human being, just 1 like the heads of any great business, that they are completely willing to comply with the law and want to give and receive a square deal. Like a | shot from a cannon, the speaker then sent home this statement:
 Under the law as it now stands, every man is expected to pay back to l hundred cents value received and no lmorei"
 In no portion of the negotiations ! that resulted in the time extension bill being framed and becoming a law, was | there a hint that anybody would stand | for the slightest repudiation of a just debt. Yet out of it all comes the idea that both parties-the farmers and the servtce are conceded to be honest, and that accounts will be squared up l just as a mans grocery bill can be squared under the same circumstances l of mutual trust. It has not been , necessary, said the speaker, to admon- l ish the secretary to knock off items that are not rightly chargeable to the farmers of the Salt River or any other project He already has the intention to do this and has had it ever since | he took charge. MT Lane only asks that the farmers remember he has taken up a burden left by another man, that he is doing work which he didn't start, and that certain things like items charged to certain projects must in time be studied out before they can be assessed or finally dis missed.
 | MT. Hayden defended the provision giving congressional committees the power to apportion the reclamation fund. Tt is simply a case of trans ferring the power from the executive head of the interior department to a l joint finance committee. Now, I will i have to enter the lists against my friends the representatives from the other reclamation states and see that my people get their share of the money. Still this arrangement tends to cause us representatives from the i west to work together and be instru- mental in aiding the committees to apportion the funds.
 Tt was charged on the floor of the house and proven beyond any doubt that every cost estimate submitted by the reclamation service has been too low Whether the committees can dc any better remains to be seen.
 Tt will do you little good to take your case out of the hands of MT
 the time extension bill was being framed, every project offered an ob- Ijection, and that one wanted a pro- vision inserted to permit it to insti- tute suit against the government. Ii
 a case is taken to some federal judge who knows little of reclamation work be sure that the machinery of the at torney generals office will be put ir
 motion to take advantage of every little technicality."
 This statement was doubtless based
 on the fact that there is a movement
 on foot among discontented ones ir
 this valley to oppose the time eXten-
 sicn bill, and through and past that
 tine secretary of the interior-even tC
 the extent of taking some of the diff
 forenoes into court of law.