The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-04-19
.SM|TH.M' NARY BILL
BEING DISCUSSED
PERSONAL CANVASS OF ALL MEM.
TO BE MADE BY CONGRESS-
MEN FROM WEST
Idaho Representative 10 Chairman Of
Committee to Work For Reclama.
ton; Work 81 Canvass Of
House to Start This Week

Washington, d. CA personal can.
vnss will be made Of all members Of
the house Of representatives, begin
ming this week, with q view Of &C
Quainting them with the provisions and
the Importance Of the tn-AfcNary
bill. in the hope that such campaign
Of education may develop sufficient
interest generally in the bill to insure
it's passage this session. Determine.
tion upon this plan was reached Sat
urday at dinner attended by most
congressman from the west, and by
some from the south, the dinner hay
Ing been arranged to agree upon some
plan Tor popping" up the campaign
for the new reclamation bill.
Representative French Of Idaho was
made chairman Of the booster" com
mittee of twenty.seven members OF
congress, all from the west and south.
and this committee will direct the
campaign of education. Serving on
this committee will be Congressman
Cotton and Leatherwood of Utah,
French and Smith of Idaho, Mccormick
and Riddick of Montana and twenty
one others. Representative Mondell
of Wyoming, by reason Of his position
as house floor leader, will not serve
with the committee.
Representative French Sunday as
signed to each member of his com.
mittee list of from fifteen to TWEEN.
ty members to be interviewed, there.
by embracing the full membership OF
the house, and he says steps will be
taken at once to get the canvass mn.
der way. This same plan was fol.
lowed. Mr.. French says, whom the
western members organised and put
through the twenty-year extension bin.
and the plan was 80 successful that
the conference Saturday night agreed
to resort to the same tactics again.
In the meeting Saturday night, Their,
was some difference Of opinion a. ia
whether the bill should be pressed in
the house now or await action BY the
senate. Some members thought the
OIL would be In better standing If it
should pass the senate before being
brought generally to the attention Of
house members; but the prevailing
sentiment was favor of going ahead
In the house, irrespective Of what the
senate may do. especially a. II was
stated no definite plans have vet been
made to bring this bill up for consid.
Grafton In the senate. It was also
realized that II the bill did not get
up In the senate before debate starts
On the tariff bill 1t may be long de-.
Ayed In the upper branch of congress.
Furthermore, sentiment Is devotion.
Ing In the house in favor of series
of recesses beginning early in Nav.
after the appropriation bills have All
been passed by that body, and If that
plan Is followed. 1t will be- necessar,
to get a vote on the h.McNary
bill before the recess starts. or II NAV
be impossible to get it 10 a vote this
session.
Western members who attended the
conference recognized that It will no
no easy task to get SO important bill
passed at time when the treasury IL
empty; when taxes are falling short
OF expectations. and when the fiscal
situation Is ~ unsatisfactory. But
they believe that an educational cam.
paign. personally and persistently con.
Quoted. will get sufficient votes in time.
They expect the canvass Of the house
may require several weeks.