THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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A Department Devoted to the 



Interests of the Farmors on the 

 Government Irrigation Projects 



EDITED BY GEORGE J. SCHARSCHUG 



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THE TWENTY -YEAR BILL PASSES; NOW WHAT? 



Any Relief for Settlers in New Law is Due These Men; the Executive Committee of the National 



Federation of Water Users' Association 



Standing Earl B. Smith, Somerton, Ariz. (Yuma Project), President, and O. E. Farnham, Newell, S. D. (Belle Fourche 



Project), Secretary. 



Seated Fulton H. Sears, Fallen, Nev. (Truckee Carson Project); Scott Etter, Carlsbad, N. M. (Carlsbad Project), and 

 George E. Rodman, Sunnyside, Wash. (Sunnyside Unit of the Yakima Project), Treasurer. 



THE Twenty- Year Reclamation Extension bill 

 will be law within a few days. It passed the 

 House on July 30, in about the form agreed upon in 

 Secretary of the Interior Lane's conferences early 

 last spring, except for one important amendment. 

 This amendment, which completely revolutionizes 

 the financial side of the Reclamation Service, will 

 not directly affect the settlers now on the projects, 

 for whose relief the measure primarily was ad- 

 vocated. 



The amendment provides that all expenditures 

 for irrigation work must be approved through 

 annual appropriation measures by Congress, author- 



izing such withdrawals from the Reclamation fund. 

 In the past, the expenditures from the fund have 

 been entirely at the discretion of the Secretary of 

 the Interior. 



As many amendments designed to afford 

 greater relief to the settlers, which the Senate 

 adopted, were eliminated in the House, the bill will 

 go to a conference. There may be some changes 

 from its present form, but in all probability it will 

 become law in practically the form in which Secre- 

 tary Lane and his conferees originally offered it 

 to Congress. 



And now? 



