Arizona republican., 1914-11-29
CONGRESSMAN HAYDEN
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stands more about your conditions than some federal judge who is ap- pointed for life and who has had no intimate knowledge of irrigation con ditions. Ultimately such case would go to the supreme court of the United States and you could look for nothing there but d fight on tue part of the United States attorney generals office If the case is taken out of the hands of the department of the interior these lawyers will defend the government with every technicality they can find.
 When it came to the reparatiOn of this new act. it was realized that con- Sress could not in any way disturb the contractual relation that exists be- tween the water users and the govern ment. If we passed bill that inn paired any contract, the courts would immediately declare it unconstitutional. Therefore we adopted Section 14 of the bill. which says that any person who desires to obtain the benefits of this act shall have six months after the date of the public notice affecting his lands, in which to accept it's terms and conditions. The new law as it is now on the statute books does not go into effect so far as the terms of payment are concerned until the water users under each project agree to it.
 Remember that the new contract which you make when you accept the reclamation extension act does not in any way determine the amount that is due the government. The new law changes the terms of payment from ten to twenty years but does not fix the sum to be paid. The total cost of the project is to be ascertained by the secretary under authority granted him by the original reclamation act, which we did not attempt to repeal or 10 change in this respect.
 Hensley and Galloway Assist
 Referring again to the difficulties We had in passing this act, you will re- member Mr Hensley, MT. CalaWay and Mir. Hanna, who came out here as a congressional Investigating committee. MT Hanna was no longer member of congress, having been elected governor of North Dakota I took the matter up with MT. Hensley and MT. Galloway and asked them how far they would go to- wards helping us to obtain rellet. l said. You have been out to Arizona and know the conditions. Congressmen will isten to you as impartial witnesses who would not listen to me" They said they would not assist or be party to any kind of a repudiation of the debt We owe for the construction of the project: that they believed the people here should pay for value received that they believed the water users could not pay for this project in ten wears and that we were entitled to an extension to twenty years. Both MT CalIaway and Mir Hensley materially assisted me in obtaining votes for the bill and in keeping the interest charge off. You owe them a debt of gratitude for the good work they did in your be- half.
 Payments Patriotic Duty
 In conclusion, I want you to remem- her this: that if this project were the only government work of it's kind-lf there were not going to be any more reclamation work in the west-then you might hope to obtain from con gress a reduction in the total amount due as a part of some og-rolling or pork barrel scheme. But such is not the fact. This is but one of a series of projects which must he constructed 1 the irrigible land of the arid west is to