Show STATE HAPPENINGS I IRRIGATORS OF PROVO I I They Discuss the Irrigation Bill Billow How Itow ow Before t the B Utah Ut h Legislature Provo March 3 was a st t of irrigators present at th t toe t meet meeting t ti tug ing i called b by the nab Lake Lab a in the court house today for the M purpose of the irrigation attee m now new be before fore tore thE legislature Andrew Knudsen was waa elected d chairman and E Eo S 8 Hinckley I seer secretary tar Judge Jude one of ot the tit Utah lake take I commissioners rs stated the object of the I meeting which was for ter information on the Question of irrigation matters ura as u sow now pending before fore the tile legislature as thy they affected the Utah lake ke and other waters water He Ne had deemed d emed It his duty to te lay lav this Uti matter t before the ld people and had there therefore ear tore fore r asked President f Knudsen to cell call the meeting He H referred first tint to senate t bill No i 5 which b he be stated was ostensibly OB to In Intended tended to give Ogden Osden City ctt th the right bt to condemn waterworks system while I it really gave municipal corporations tend land and water rights for waterworks systems By some it was wa U considered a very good measure while others other considered the bill conferred altogether too much power to corporations to condemn He did not ot wish b to say that he approved or disapproved of the bill Mil He believed it contained some good provisions previsions but b t was not in la favor of the extraordinary condemnation powers which it conferred on municipal corpora corporations corporations Judge Milner KUner stated parenthetical parenthetically ly by that he be did dla not appear as the advocate nor nO the opponent of any trill bill but bet simply desired tred de that the people be Informed on these the e Important questions n He then theft pointed out that If It the bill blU passed P It might mt greatly Sn y affect the Utah Ut lake leU ques question question tion as the people of Salt Lake would have bave power und under it to condemn Utah lake and land adjoining it for fO reservoir purposes Another bill blU which warn waa w designed to av the th state tate the benefit of the reclamation n I act waa was next explained and the proba probe probability bUSty of Its enactment indicated This will ril require the governor to appoint five commissioners from different parts of the state and it might be well for the people ople here to consider the name of some man whom whon they might mi ht desire io to recommend for tor that position The bill giving the he waterworks system of cities into the hands of a commission was waa then discussed and the idea ad advanced advanced advanced that it would not pass Ua and end the theme same me end was predicted for senate bill blU blUNo No Ml the Cache valley bill bUt Senate bill No the Joint committed committe irrigation bill was next taken up and its it main features explained Before reading from the bill Judge Milner stated that there was wa a diversity of ot opinion o in re regard regard regard gard to the bill Alt All of or the Salt Lake wk pa papers pape pets pers pe favored it but he was waa of f the opinion opinion opinion ion that th the writers of those papers paper did not fully grasp its it purport There were W many of its It provisions that the speaker er favored he be said aid while he be did not ap Drove of others other The section ec o making any 1 waters subject to any act of congress e I providing for tor the th storage and distribution I of waters water and giving con congress I gress greas power to obtain other ir waters bv by purchase or condemnation was w one pue sec eec section tion dun that evidently ly did not entirely meet Judge Milners a approval After the bill had been read nag in IA next aart by hr Judge Milner M H P Madsan M moved that the bill be disapproved from bid fao to is end nd He objected to it on oa the ue grounds that it took the power PP f of controlling the waters of the state tate from frOID present owners and gave it into the hands of ot the tM govern governor IO or through his appointees that l it u took away the rights already fr acquired eq by in iu and corporations co and aDd would give Kin Salt Bait Lake by way of illustration the power to come down and tau take all the water from Itah tab county that it wanted Others thought the bin bill contained wood good provisions and ami were not fayO in favor till they had further considered the measure Mr XI 7 T J Patten Fatten spoke In favor of 0 the bitt bill in tn so far as U U provided for See a better distribution dl of tie the tW water which widell was wasU greatly U needed Hf H 11 believed the representatives YeB of the b people who had bad keen been sent to the legislature ur were e BCd acting on their thel bet best information on for tor the interest In of the people peGI and ead that hat they were probably b better informed than tn those present pret n Roger Begin Farver Farror could co see Many ny features tu in the bill detrimental J to Utah t county and a In the interest 8 of sM Jt Uw ant and was opposed to tila tn bill btU Judge JucI Milner Milnee again took the floor and disclaimed that disapproval itla of if the MU isU had caused him to call catl the He NC Hewa was wa in favor of many of o it un Ita provision previsions but did not approve ve of ot the provisions for tor condemnation nor no for placing paeng too much I power tOwer in the hadS of ot one man n I On motion of W w S So Holdaway a corn com committee e of three was ws appointed to xo en to Salt Lake and present p pt the action of the 1 meeting before th legislature and U to 0 op opo oppose pose Poe the passage pap of ot the tIM bill Mil The members of the committee are Andrew Knudsen Knudson en enA A M K Carter and J 1 B Milner Iner Judge J Milner explained that he be mild not net and nel would not net oppose OP O all U 11 the Ue features of the tM bill and for that reason reUlon declined to act acton acton acton on the committee but was w finally per persuaded to become a member There were wore several everal others placed in nomination wh wo declined for the same me reason n that Judae gave e Expressions were ewe Jd to the effect that it could not be ex eted that the to bill would uld be defeated dett d ant and that if some of the tbt most moet objectionable features were eliminated e ed tie the opponents s sIns would have e sr to be satisfied and with that understand ing Ins Judge Judee Milner consented to act The commute will go ft to t Salt Lake tomorrow |