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10th ANNUAL MEETING & CONVENTION

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PHOENIX - IN THE VALLEY Of THE SUN - OCTOBER 15·16·17

WASHINGTON, D. C. June

4, 1941

SENATE ACTS TO EXPEDITE RECLAtl~TION PROGRAM

Yesterday the Senate Interior subcowmittee, chairmaned by Senator Hayden of Arizona, guided the Interior appropriations bill through the Senate of the United States.

The bill appropriated $81,792,000 under 39 different headings for the Federal reclamation program, and in additio~j a~thorized the Secretary of the Interior to incur contractual obligations for an additional amount of $17,950,000 .-- making a tota 1 authori zation of $99 /lh2, 000 -- by far the largest amount ever made available by the Congress for reclamation works during any single year.

Upon recommendations of the committee, the Senate transferred the seven half- completed projects from the reclamation revolving fund to the general fund of the treasury, as recommended, and authorized the Secretary of the Interior to incur additional contractual obligations for those seven projects up to $7,450,000.

The amounts appropriated by the Senate bill for individual items and projects are as follows:

AMOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR EACH I'rEI'1

General Investigations, ~1,500,OOO; Case-Wheeler proj~cts, ~5,000,000; material for protection of project structures froB sabotage, $50,000; administrative expense (reciamation fund and general fund), !~1,420,OOO; Paonia (Colorado) ~600,000;

Unc ompahgre (Colorado) ~~80, 000; Minidoka (Idaho) ~p50, 000; Boise-Payette (Idaho)

$1,500,000; Sun River (!,lontana) tlOO,OOO; Carlsbad (New Nexico) $100,000; Deschutes (Oregon) ~I,OOO,OOO; Owyhee (Oregon) ~200.000; Klamath--Modoc (Ore.-Calif.) ~500,000;

Ogden Rive r (Utah) ~~60, 000; Yakima--Sunnys ide (Washington) ~100 ^I000; Kendrick

(Wyoming) $265,000; Shoshone--Heart Mt. (Wyoming) ~350,000; Shoshone--power (Wyoming)

$300,000; Shoshone--Hillwood (Wyoming) ~57 ,000; Riverton (Wyorring) ~~lOO,OOO; Bulls- head (Arizona-Nevada) ~3,OOO,000; Parleer Da.m (Arizona.-Calif.) ~~6,000,000; San Luis Valley (Colorado) ~llO.OOO; Grand Coulee (Washington) 011,OOOoOOO; Boulder Dam (Ariz.- Nev.) $5,000,000; All-American Canal (California) ~~2,OOO,000; Colorado River front 1.'Iork, ~:·50JOOO; Colorado River development fund surveys :j250,OOO; Valley Gravity Canal

& Storage Project (Texas) C2,500,OOO.

AUTHORITY TO INCUR ADDITIONA.L C01TTRACTUAL OBLIGATIOnS

Projects whose appropriations were supplemented by authority for the Secretary of the Interior to incur contractual obligations over and above the amount appropriated, with the amounts involved, are as follows:

Project Amount Bill

appropriates Gila (Arizona)

Big-Thompson (Colorado)

$

500,000 3,000,000

OFFICERS O. S. WARDEN. PRESIDENT ORA BUNDY. FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT W. SAWYER. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT J. A. FORD. TREASURER

F. O. HAGlE. SECRETARY·MANAGER

HUGO B. FARMER. YUMA. ARIZONA J. R. FAUVER. EXETER. CALIFORNIA CLIFFORD H. STONE. DENVER. COLORADO N. V. SHARP. FILER. IDAHO

E. PORTER AHRENS. SCANDIA. KANSAS

o. S. WARDEN. GREAT FALLS. MONTANA

Authority for

Contractual Obligations

~ 500.000 1,500,000

PIRECTORS

C. E. AL T:::R. ALMA. NEBRASKA A. M. SMITH. CARSON CITY. NEVADA E. W. BOWEN. TUCUMCARI. NEW MEXICO HARRY E. POLK. WILLISTON. NORTH DAKOTA FRANK RAAB. CANTON. OKLAHOMA

ROBERT W. SAWYER. BEND. OREGON W. D. BUCHHOLZ. NEWELL. SOUTH DAKOTA R. E. BASKIN. SEYMOUR. TEXAS ORA BUNDY. OGDEN. UTAH J. A. FORD. SPOKANE. WASHINGTON PERRY W. JENKINS. CORA. WYOMING

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Project

Anderson Ranch (Idaho) Tucumcari (New Mexico) Lugert-Altus (Oklahoma) Provo River (Utah)

Yakima-Roza (Hashington) Central Valley (California) Fort Peck (Montana)

A.mount Bill Appropriates

$

750,000 450,000 350,000 1,250,000 500,000 31,750,000 000

~j8 ,550,000

BILL NOH GOES TO CO!;FERENCE COMMITTEE OF TWO HOUSES

Total

Authori ty for

contractual Obligations

$ 500,000 1,550,000 1,150,000 1,150,000 1,100,000 10,000,000 500,000

~17,950,OOO

$56,500,000

Hhen the Interior bill came from the House, it provided ~78,OOO,OOO for reclamation. As it comes from the Senate, it contains $81,792,000 and authority to incur additiona.l contractual obligations in the amount of $17,950.,000 -- a total of

$99,742,000. This is ~21,742,OOO over and above what the lower house approved.

The Interior bill now goes to the conference comndttee of the two houses of Congress to reconcile their differences. We are hopeful that the House conferees will agree to recede and concur in all Senate amendments, and that the House will sustain their action.

ADAMS-O'I1AHONEY SUGAR BILL (S. 937) PASSES SENATE 45 to 26

Yesterday the above bill passed the Senate by nearly a two-to-one vote. The Coffee sugar bill (ER. 3582) in the House (sister bill to the above) while reported out of the Agricultural Committee by a vote of

14

to 7, is now being kept from the floor of the House by the Rules Committee. Sponsors of the bill are confident of their ability to pass the Coffee bill if they can get it onto the floor for discus- sion.

The personnel of the Rules Committee is as follows: Sabath, Illinois; Cox, Georgia; Smith, Virginia; Clark, North Carolina; Dies, Texas; Lewis, Colorado;

Delaney, New York; Nelson, Missouri; Fish, New York; Michner, Michigan; Colmer, Mississippi; Nichols, Oklahoma; Allen, Illinois; and Hcl leck, Indiana.

Lewis of Colorado and Michner of Michigan are reported favorable to a rule to permit the bill to go to the floor. It is understood that CongreSSIT8n Coffee, author of the bill, must be away from Hashington for ten days or two weeks, so there is

ample time for a strong campaign of education among the members of the Rules Committee.

In case the Philippine Islands are unable to deliver their full quota of sugar to the United States because of the lack of shipping facilities, the Coffee sugar bill would permit domestic beet and cane producers to make up a part of the deficit.

Sincerely yours, F. O. Hagie

Secretary-Manager