| Show In tho Senate WASHINGTON Aug 26 The memorandum memoran-dum offered yesterday by Aldrich fixing the time for consideration of and voting on tho tariff bill was presented after some discussion sent discus-sion It was agreed to tfy unanimous con rn 1 onferenco report on the sundry civil appropriation bill was read The paragraph = par-agraph regarding reservojr sites which reserves re-serves from entry all such sites was criti cised by Sanders who thanked tho Senate conferees ironically for having sacrificed the interests of tho people of Montana to to the insatiable law of the House Allison defended the aetion f tho Senate conferees and explained the extreme difficult diffi-cult whiCh they encountered In dealing with he subject He reviewed briefly the histo1y of tho irrigation survey and charged the House was responsible respon-sible for engrafting the reservations in the arid lands provision on the sundry civil appropriation in ISbS thereby causing all the trouble He avowed it as having been the intention of the Senate conferees to have the whole irrigation survey wiped out of existence so far as possible but they had been confronted by people who insisted that the survey should go on and become part of the settled and permanent policy of the government The result had been the provision nowproposed to be inserted in-serted in the sundry bill that provision was not what ho would have wished it to be was not what the Senate conferees wished but it was the best solution they could secure Reagan defended the past action of Congress Con-gress in the matter pf reserving reservoir sites from settlemen and said if it had not been for that the reservation of those lands would have been seized by specu lators and syndicates Alter some debate the conference report was agreed to and I the tariff bill was again taken up |
