The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-23
BRING AMERICAN
CONGRESS west
Plan to Have Senators
and Representatives
Come Sight Seeing
Next Summer
SPECIAL TR AIN S
Will Come at Expense
of Thirteen West
ern States

UcIS VI CUIlSIGSS THRU tie west uds
proven such revelation and valua
bic education in getting the larger
view of national development thrr
reclamation, and the application OF
commercial science, to benefit botl
east and west, it is now proposed tt
work thru the Western States Recla
nation association to make up q
purse and program for bringing
the whole American congress west
next summer on special trains tC
make tour of the more important
projects as well as to tour the ma.
tional parks.
American manufacturers are look
ing for the best markets in the world
for their goods, and men who come
west and observe how every irriga-
ton project consumes the goods
from eastern factories, go back
preaching the doctrine of irrigation
to develop the country and to stimu-
late the industries of the east.
The following is brief review
of the events of the tour made thru
Idaho by the congressional commit
tee last week:
The Committee Members
The congressional appropriations
committee, composed of James W.
Good, Iowa, chairman; Joseph Byrns,
Tennessee; Will R. Wood, Indiana;
John J. Egan, New Jersey; Louis c..
Champion, Michigan; John NJ. Ev-
ans, Montana; Burton L. French,
Idaho, and A. j. Barta, clerk.
Charles B. Timberlake, Colorado,
Of the ways and means committee,
was also in the party, and Nicholas
]. Sinott, Oregon, and Addison T.
Smith, Idaho, of the e"public lands
committee. The reclamation SER
vice was represented by A. P. Davis,
director; J. B. Beadel, secretary; F..
w. Weymouth, chief of construction,
and local reclamation men.
Party Enters Idaho
The trip began at Parma Saturday
morning. After a delicious break
fast gotten up by the good people of
that prosperous town, the party
started in automobiles led by c. Ben
Ross, one of Idaho's most progress
i've citizens. There were more than
forty cars and in addition to the
congressional party were many prom
inent men of Idaho, also many local
people of the particular section being
examined.
The party was taken over the Ros-
we'll bench and Deer Flat, where,
from the high places splendid views
could be had of the country for
miles and miles, passing thru Wilder,
stopping at Caldwell for light refresh
ments, and there being heartily
greeted by the citizens of that live
ly town: then on to Nampa, where
a sumptuous lunch was spread; from
Nampa to Boise and on to Moore's
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Arrowrock dam and back to Boise,
at which place banquet was served
to the guests and about 100 citizens
from all parts of Idaho.
Congressman Good of Iowa, chair
man of the appropriations commit
tee, made a splendid speech, and
wound up by saying that he was for
reclamation and would do all in his
power to assist the west in this great
work of development. Congress-
man Will R. Wood of Indiana, a
lawyer of national ability and con-
gressman who has made good, also
made broad and splendid talk,
dwelling particularly on the informa-
tion he had gathered and what he
had seen with his own eyes, and that
from now on he was friendly to rec
and by an understanding
of what it meant wished to be help
full in our great work Of conquering
the desert. Congressman Louis C.
Champion of Michigan made strong
speech for reclamation.
A Congressman Converted
Congressman John w. Eagan of
New Jersey made hardheaded,
comprehensive talk and said he rep
resented the smallest district, in
miles, in the United States (the dis
trict is only about six miles square).
He said that he realized since COM
ing to the great west, also realizing
that production is being dwarfed
rather than being increased in the
east, and that some time they would
wake up without breakfast, dinner
or supper; he realized the import
ance of those great granaries, and
the mighty production per acre of the
lands of the west; that he
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