THE IERIGATION AGE. 



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the construction of irrigation works under the charge 

 of Army Engineers. It is not apparent at this time what 

 effect this is to have on Mr. Newell's position as Director 

 of the Service. Most men would have resigned on the 

 spot when the appointive power indicated that the serv- 

 ice might be improved by placing the responsibility in 

 other hands. Not so with Mr. Newell. He congratulated 

 the Army Engineers, telling them that they are to take a 

 great load from his shoulders, etc. He proceeds to con- 

 duct these Army Engineers through the West to make 

 them acquainted with the work in hand. He will not Ifse 

 this opportunity to make himself as solid as conditions 

 will permit, with the new management. In the meantime 

 his publicity department is telling the people what has 

 been accomplished to date. This is for the benefit of Mr. 

 Xcwell. It is timely advertising. 



Something should be done to check the publicity wor^ 

 of the bureaus at Washington. All departments tntjic 

 should be on the same basis in so far as publicity is con- 

 cerned. To those who can in any way indorse this prac- 

 tice we ask, what kind of a government would we have if 

 every officer, great and small, would spend his time at- 

 tending conventions, talking from the platform and writing 

 material for personal and political advertising? It is plain 

 that this would be dangerous. Where are we to draw the 

 line? Can we permit one officer to initiate a practice that 

 would manifestly lead to anarchy if the same policy were 

 adopted by all? If by replacing the present organization 

 of the Reclamation Service with Army Engineers, this pub- 

 licity practice can be checked to some extent, the change 

 should be welcomed. Let us have more construction and 

 less organization and less political activity. 



RECLAMATION FUND BILL 



Full Text of the Measure Providing for Advances of 

 $20,000,000 and How the Money Shall Be Spent. 





COLLOWING is the complete text of the bill to pro- 

 vide $20,000 to complete irrigation projects already 

 commenced and the issue and disposal of bonds: 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 

 to enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete gov- 

 ernment reclamation projects heretofore begun, the Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury is authorized, upon request of the 

 Secretary of the Interior, to transfer from time to time 

 to the credit of the reclamation fund created by the act 

 entitled "An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale 

 and disposal of public lands in certain states and terri- 

 tories to the construction of irrigation works for the 

 reclamation of arid lands," approved June 17. 1902, such 

 sum or sums, not exceeding in the aggregate twenty mil- 

 lion dollars, as tke Secretary of the Interior may deem 

 necessary to complete the said reclamation projects, and 

 such extensions thereof as he may deem proper and neces- 

 sary to the successful and profitable operation and main- 

 tenance thereof or to protect water rights pertaining 

 thereto claimed by the United States, provided the same 

 shall be approved by the president of the United States; 

 and such sum or sums as may be required to comply with 

 the foregoing authority are hereby appropriated out of any 

 money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: 



Provided, That the sums hereby authorized to be 

 transferred to the reclamation fund shall be so trans- 

 ferred only as such sums shall be actually needed to meet pay- 

 ments for work performed under existing law: And pro- 

 vided further. That all sums so transferred shall be reim- 

 bursed to the Treasury from the reclamation fund, as 

 hereinafter provided: Ancf provided further. That no part 

 of this appropriation shall be expended upon any existing 

 project until it shall have been examined and reporter? 

 upon by a board of engineer officers of the Army, desig- 



nated by the President of the United States, and until it 

 shall be approved by the president as feasible and prac- 

 ticable and worthy of such expenditure; nor shall any 

 portion of this appropriation be expended upon any new 

 project. 



Sec. 2. That for the purpose of providing the Treasury 

 with funds for such advances to the reclamation fund, the 

 Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue certificates 

 of indebtedness of the United States in such form as he 

 may prescribe and in denominations of fifty dollars, or 

 multiples of that sum; said certificates to be redeemable 

 at the option of the United States at any time after three 

 years from the date of their issue and to be payable five 

 years after such date, and to bear interest, payable semi- 

 annually, at not exceeding three per centum per annum; 

 the principal and interest to be payable in gold coin of the 

 United States. The certificates of indebtedness herein 

 authorized may be disposed of by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury at not less than par, under such rules and regu- 

 lations as he may prescribe, giving all citizens of the 

 United States an equal opportunity to subscribe therefore, 

 but no commission shall be allowed and the aggregate is- 

 sue of such certificates shall not exceed the amount of all 

 advances made to said reclamation fund, and in no event 

 shall the same exceed the sum of twenty million dollars. 

 The certificates of indebtedness herein authorized shall be 

 exempt from taxes or duties of the United States as well 

 as from taxation in any form by or under state, municipal, 

 or local authority; and a sum not exceeding one-tenth of 

 one per centum of the amount of the certificates of in- 

 debtedness issued under this act is hereby appropriated, 

 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated, to pay the expense of preparing, advertising, and 

 issuing the same. 



Sec. 3. That beginning five years after the date of the 

 first advance to the reclamation fund under this act. fifty 

 per centum of the annual receipts of the reclamation fund 

 shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury of the 

 United States until payment so made shall equal the ag- 

 gregate amount of advances made by the Treasury to said 

 reclamation fund, together with interest paid on the cer- 

 tificates of indebtedness issued under this act and any 

 expense incident to preparing advertising, and issuing the 

 same. 



Section 4. That all money placed to the credit of the 

 reclamation fund in pursuance of this act shall be devoted 

 exclusively to the completion of work on reclamation 

 projects heretofore begun as hereinbefore provided, and 

 the same shall be included with all other expenses in 

 future estimates of construction, operation, or mainte- 

 nance, and hereafter no irrigation project contemplated by 

 said act of June 17, 1902, shall be begun unless and until 

 the same shall have been recommended by the Secretary 

 of the Interior and approved by the direct order of the 

 President of the United States. 



Sec. 5. That no entry shall be hereafter made and no 

 entryman shall be permitted to go upon lands reserved 

 for irrigation purposes until the Secretary of the Interior 

 shall have' established the unit of acreage and fixed the 

 water charges and the date when the water can be applied 

 and made public announcement of the same. 



Sec. 6. That section nine of said act of Congress, 

 approved June 17, 1902, entitled "An act appropriating the 

 receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in cer- 

 tain states and territories to the construction of irrigation 

 works for the reclamation of arid lands," is hereby re- 

 pealed. 



Approved, June 25, 1910. 



JUDGE KINNEY'S NEW BOOK. 



JUDGE CLESSON S. KINNEY, of Salt Lake City, 

 ** Utah, is now engaged in oreparing a work on the legal 

 side of irrigation. A work that is greatly needed by every 

 man interested in the development of arid lands This 

 book will be issued very soon and it consists of three 

 volumes in the usual legal form. Judge Kinney is the 

 author of other valuable works on irrigation, the last 

 volume appearing in 1893. IRRIGATION ACE has made 

 arrangements with Judge Kinnev by which all inquiries 

 received bv us will be forwarded to him and his replies 

 will be published in these column?. 



