Show EARlY HEARING SOUGHT I IN REClAMATION CASE Court to Pass Upon Collection of Expenses From Water Users Washington Feb 2 Early Earl Early consideration consideration consideration consider consider- of ot the Baker Baker case from Washington state Involving the rights of ot time the government to collect from water users the expenses of or maintaining maintain maintain- ing log and operating national reclamation projects before their ultimate completion comple comple- tion was urged toda today in printed form torm upon the supreme court of ot tho the United States b by the department of or Justice Th The case caso reached the court last st week The Ninth United States circuit court courtot of ot appeals held that these expenses could not bo ho collected The government pointed out today that it already had collected 9 under the tho rule and before beCore the next irrigation season ason would be ready to collect more In further support of ot the time claim that the case Is so important as nl to d demand lemand Immediate consideration the department department depart lepart- ment says that upward of ot have havo been Invested b by tho the government In various ulous reclamation projects and under the regulations of th the tha secretary of ot the interior operation and maintenance main main- charges are payable for nearly a acres res embracing farms within seventeen sC projects at various places ces In iii tho the west |