Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-29
MARK ROSE
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the said Secretary to pay all costs as
lsessed by the said Secretary and 9TH
| erwise fully compiling with the pro-
visions of this act"
Is Dictator
| You will see that Section Two. so far
as Imperial Valley is concerned or the
| lower Colorado river project referred
! TO, makes out of the Secretary of the
Interior an absolute dictator, from
whose decision there is no appeal and
| places in him q most vicious method
tf enforcing his dictatorship. and un-
der this section the District after it
had paid its proportion of use of all
american canal could be denied use
of it until it had complied with the
arbitrary discretion of the Secretary of
the Interior, however unjust it might
lbe.
1t would also force the District into
partnership with the Arizona soldier
settlement board, the California farm
settlement board water users associa-
tions, corporations and individual wa
ter users. under which head interests
south of the line could all get in and
would compel the District to stand the
burden of storage, if the Secretary so
Wlled, and in an amount which hel
might fix. The members of the WASH
ington committee will remember that
Hayden objected to Imperial Valley,
having a first water right and argueGi
that the District should bear part OF
the burden of storage, and his bin
leaves out Section II of the Swing bilfi
entirely, which section protected thci
valleys water right in the following;
language: THAT Hands outside ofi
the present boundaries of the lmpe-
rial Irrigation District reclaimed byi
means of the irrigation works con-
Structed hereunder shall have water
right secondary TO that of the lands
within the present boundaries of the,
Imperial Irrigation District
Section Three of the Hayden bill is;
similar to Section Three of the Swing,
bill excepting that it allows the Sec,
retary to accept bonds of private cor
porations.
Section Four practically is same as!
Swing Section -Four.
Section Five creates Lower Colorados
River project created by bill.
Section Six
of collection on bonds.
Section Seven provides for sale OF,
lands at same price as Swing bill; in!
cludes preference rights for soldiers,
and authorizes the Secretary of the In-ii
terror to sell and reclaim lands i'll col
operation with the California state
land settlement board Arizona soldier
settlement board, and use ell or anyS
part of the lands in connection with
any soldier settlement legislation tnat!
congress may enact. Under this sec-l
ton the Secretary of the interior could
withhold from public sale all public
lands until after water is available
which action would prevent lands FROM
organizing districts and voting bonds
for their proportion of cost of the ALL
American canal, thereby withdrawing
or Withholding approximately 40 per
cent of the lands to be benefited by
construction of such canal, Whlchl
would compel the remaining CO. per
cent of lands to bear the burden or!
construction of the All-Amercan ca
nal. for bill provides that before the
money for construction of Such canal
is available bonds to cover the 1ull
amount must be filed with the Secre-
taly fo the Treasury
Section Eight provides the method
by which valid existing entries shal
be subject to act and be reduced 10
1G0 acres.
Section Nine would nullify provi-
sions in Swing bill basing cost OF
of the All-American canal
upon an acreage basis and allows the
Secretary of the Interior to fix. such
charges as he may deem just ana
equitable.
Recall Agreements
The valley delegation Will remember
that when in Washington. DAVIS ar