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In the same session of Congress, Senator Smoot, of Utah, 

 and Senator Thomas, of Colorado, by repeated "objections" 

 when unanimous consent to vote was sought, and when but 

 for the minority this bill would have been passed, also up- 

 held the sovereign rights of their states. Five times did 

 Senator Smoot block the road to a fair and square vote by 

 his single objection! That was before the bad practice of 

 105 years in the Senate was sent to the Oblivion it deserved 

 by the adoption of the cloture rule. 



In view of all this, the decision of the United States Su- 

 preme Court, as rendered on March 19, becomes of surpass- 

 ing interest. It emphatically affirms all the rights of the 

 federal government in and upon the national forests, to the 

 exclusion of all state jurisdiction. We will reproduce the 

 news as we read it ; for it looks rather good. By the irony 

 of Fate it is based upon a Utah case. 



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NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 191T, 



LIMITS ST ATE LAN D POWERS 



Federal Control Paramount, Supreme 



Court Rules in Utah Case. 



WASHINGTON, March 19. — In sus- 

 taining injunctions ousting Utah hydro- 

 electric power companies from Federal 

 forest reservations, the Supreme Court 

 today upheld Federal and limited State 

 sovereignty in developing resources in 

 Western " public land " States. Regu- 

 lations of the Agriculture and Interior 

 Departments' conservation policy and 



