Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-10-22

God let's me live, is to introduce this
bill and pass it into law
Senator Cameron, after a long and
hard fight put through the San Carlos
bill by unanimous vote in the senate
lust as the bill passed the senate
advised Hayden by phone and 1
never heard a voice change so in my
life when he sad, Lord, has that bill
passed the senate unanimously
"Then the fight was over in the
house. Carl Hayden was the rank
ing member on the Indian affairs
committee to which the bill was re :
ferred. Chairman Snyder promised
me he would do everything possibie
to hurry it along. He said, Wen
leave it TO Carl Hayden Time was
to close. Hayden waited two days
before making the report of the
committee, which delay permitueu
32 other bills to get ahead of the
Cameron bill, in order to defeat the
measure on account of time. whou
found this out L wired some prom
inent democrats and friends of the
kill in Arizona TO wire Hayden ann
build someg fires under him in oroer
to get some real support.
"I was later in Carl Hayden's Of
flee and he showed me my wire
which had been relayed back to him
exclaiming, What in hell does this
mean? What do you know about
this telegram? Why didn't you con-
suit me?' 1 told him consult your
We have been consulting your kind
for 35 years and we have not any
water yet.
1--WE had 200 members OF the lowe.
house whom Senator Cameron and L
had personally seen who had given
democrats, who would support this
me easure when It reached the floor of
the house. The last week came and
on Saturday we were told that Mr..
Gillette, the speaker of the house,
would not recognize Carl Hayden on
this bill He said to Hayden, "you
are foolish to think that I would
recognize you for an appropriation
Of this kind AS anyone knows dur
ing the last week of congress in the
lower house It is impossible to bring
up a bill for consideration without
recognition of the speaker which Gill
lette refused to give Hayden.
"Then 1 came back to Senator
Camerons office after learning of
this. 1 told him that it looked like
we were beaten in the lower house.
Senator Cameron said to me, beaten?
Never; we are never beaten until the
session is over and we still have
time Senator Cameron then pre-
pared a letter to the president which
he rewrote several times, having
many friends of the bill present in
the senator's office, including his Of.
ficial family, led in prayer for the
success of the measure. Then, OIL
Monday morning the senator went tc
see the president. After the presi~
dent had read it the senator made a
passionate appeal and when he had
finished the president extended q
hand and said, Senator, I will do all
within my power to see that this bill
becomes a law Senator Cameron
replied, Mr.. President, all you will
have to do is to get in touch with
speaker of the house Gillette and ask
that he give recognition to the bill.
"The next day Senator Cameron
received word from Senator Gillette
that he would recognize the bill in
the lower house. He did SO and
The cameron measure passed on the
following day.
"Then the president, who was be-
fore the country for reelection or
an economy program, signed the Cam
eron bill, carrying provisions for five
and half million dollars. We went
to him to have him sign this bill
We wanted to havS our pictures
taken with him. He took the pei
and would have signed the bill be
fore the pictures were taken. ThC
president said, hurry up, photo
graphers,' and they took a hurried
picture, and the president signed tn'
bill for the expenditure of five ant
a half million dollars for the build
ing of the Coolidge dam on the GIL;
| river"