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Show HETGH HETCHY BILL PSSSESIE SE1TE City of Sail Franciscb Wins Great Victory After Years of Effort j i WASHINGTON, Dee. 0. The Baker bill giving San Francisco wator supply and power rightB in the Hetch Hetchy valley of tho Tuolumne river, Yoseinite national park, passod the senate at 11:57 tonight by a vote of 43 to 25. The bill had previously passod the house in identically the same form, and goes at onco to the president for signature. The passage of the bill three minutes before the hour Bet for the arbitrary adjournment of tho senate was attended with unusual scones. Fearful that tho 1 final voTro would bo defeated by lack of time, Vice President Marshall, tho reading clerk and members of tho senate sen-ate themselves brought a woek of do-bato do-bato to an end in sixteen minutes of hurried voting. Party loaders wero divided in tho final voto on the bill. The victory for San Francisco ends a fight that has boon waged in congress for several years, in which conservationists conserva-tionists aud nature clubs took a conspicuous con-spicuous part. The bill gives San Francisco authority to erect a dam in the Hetch Hotchy valley, creating a storage roservoir, authority to flood the necessary parts of tho valloy, to create oloctric power and sell it under ,tho local regulations of California, and to construct conduits and canals through public lands whero necessary as part of the city's wator supply system. sys-tem. Provision is mado to protect tho water wa-ter rights of settlers on irrigated lands iu tho Turlock and Modesto irrigation districts in tho San Joaquin valley, and the city will bo required to construct roads in the park, including a scenic highway, to provido " sightly' ' buildings build-ings and to furnish power at cost to irrigation users. Opponents of tho bill included those who claimed the beauty of tho valloy would bo spoiled and that settlers on irrigated lands would bo doprivod of an adequate Bupply of water. |