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TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1917 



Supreme Court Ousts 

 Utah Power Concerns 



Upholds Federal Sovereignty 



in Development of "Public 



Land" Resources 



Washington, March 19. — Sustaining 

 injunctions ousting Utah hydro-electric 

 ( power companies from Federal forest 

 •reservations, the Supreme Court to-day 

 upheld Federal and limited state sov- 

 ereignty in developing resources in 

 Western "public land" states. 



Regulations of the Agriculture and 

 I Interior departments' conservation pol* 

 | icy and decrees requiring the Utah 

 \ power companies to remove their prop- 

 ! erty from the public lands unless they 

 | obtain Federal permits were sustained, j 

 ' The court maintained the power of 

 | Congress to regulate all public lands, 

 | and denied that its authority was lim- 

 i ited to lands actually used for Federal j 

 | purposes. All government regulations ! 

 were not specifically upheld, but the 

 court refused to disturb any of them. 

 It also held the government entitled to 

 icasonable compensation from the Utah 

 power concerns for use of lands occu- 

 pied. 



THE LAST WORD REGARDING THE RIGHTS OF THE 

 NATION IN THE NATIONAL FORESTS 



