The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-26

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 1 Government is throwing this water | down ol the city
 MT Underwood. MT. Speaker, I do not wish it understood that am saying what part the Government should contribute in dollars and I'cents, because | do not know.
 MT Fitzgerald Is the gentleman in favor of this motion to recede and | concur?
 Mir. Underwood I think the Gov ernment ought to contribute toward it.
 MT Fitzgerald. I want to know if l the gentleman is in favor of the mo- l ton?
 Mr. Butler. That is what want to | know.
 Mr. Underwood. would really | prefer the gentlemen to take the matter to the conferees and decide what is a fair proportion for the | Government to pay.
 MT. Fitzgerald But the question | before the House is to recede and | concur in this amendment. | Mir Underwood l suppose the gen ! tleman from New York is not in favor of doing anything.
 MT. Fitzgerald. l am not in favor of doing anything unless you desire to build sewers for every municipal | ity that can work the Government upon some spacious plea for doing it.. | The Speaker The time of the gen tleman from Alabama has expired. | MT. Fitzgerald MT Speaker, I | think this is a very remarkable situa- | ton in which the House finds itself. l The Senate has incorporated in this ! bill an amendment to appropriate | $237 900 to build a sewage system for the city of Hot Springs, and the gen tleman from Alabama (Mr. Under | wood), interested as we all are il keeping the appropriations within i reason upon this side of the House, supporting this motion, although he states he is not familiar with the facts. The plea upon which the re- quest is made is that the Government owns the mountain, and that the sur face waters from storms flowing down the mountain flow through the city of Hot Springs. Will anybody suggest that a private owner of any property should be compelled to build a sewer for a city because the sur face water flows down the natural grade to where a sewer should be built? Twenty-eight thousand dollars will build the necessary sanitary sewer for the city of Hot Springs Fortysix thousand dollars will build more improved type, rather than an experimental type. But the city of Hot Springs, built upon a Govern ment reservation, upon lots sold at great bargain by the Government to those who located taere, upon lots leased to residents of Hot Springs and every dollar the Government gets outside of the Arlington Hotel lease is only $7,500 a year, and until two years ago it had received for the ground rental for proerty upon which ia a $500,000 hotel only $5,000, and for few years and during the great. CT period of the 20-year lease only s2, 800 year, because Congress has lbeen so easy, because it has been so simple a matter to get money out of the Federal Treasury. To keep this rich gold mine for the benefit of the people of Hot Springs, Ark, it is now l l.p1rgcaI vyh fhfc lhfll fo hotta . pressed for final enactment into law, to try and crowd into 1t an item of $237 ,000, not for the benefit of the Government, not to perform an obli- gation of the Governm, nt, but to re- lieye the people of Hot Springs Ark, from the obligation to provide the sewer facilities necessary for that city. Has anybody ever proposed during the three or four years that this matter has been under consider alton any system any plan, any scheme for the construction of a sew CT and the apportionment of proper charge to the Government for which it might be under obligation 10 pay?
 A few years ago, when an item was inserted in this bill to appropriate s10,O00 for a survey to find out what was necessary, the House confereea insisted that one half of the neces- sary amount be paid out of the rev. enues of Hot Springs Reservation and the other haf by the city Of Hot Springs. Ark The survey cost lit- tie under $7,000, and there was nearly
 
 A Desirable Household Remedy.