Show INTERIOR BILL TRADE nH DENIED CRAMPTON COMPROMISE GIVEN TO SMOOT QUICKLY REFUS- REFUS REFUSED REFUSED REFUS-ED REFUS ED DY CY WESTERNERS Crampton Appeal Evidently Swayed Senator Smooth As He Agreed To Take Crampton's Proposal To The Senate Washington D Senator C-Senator C Senator Smoot of Utah who heads the senate mem memo members members bers hers of the conference committee on the interior department department bill stepped Into a n hornets hornet's nest when after aCter an- an another an another other meeting of the conference ho proposed to various western senators that the senate abandon the Kendrick plan of federal aid to settlers on new IrrigatIon projects and accept a com com- compromise compromise compromise promise proposal by bV by Representative Representative Cramton head of the house conferees The new Crampton plan briefly was the old state cooperation dressed up in new clothes coupled with an alternative e plan of f financing the settlers through corporations formed formell on the projects Without exception the senators to whom Smoot made his suggestion quickly and emphatically rejected the proposal and anti reminded the Utah sen- sen senator sen senator ator that only a few days das ago at a meeting of all aJl western senators he was told to absolutely Cra Cram Cram- Cramton's tons Cram tons ton's house provisions and to insist on the tho Kendrick plan and that western senators without exception would stan stand II by him on the program So In- In IndIgnant indignant in indignant were some of time the senators over the developments that they de- de de r cl-r 1 to call another meeting for tor the purpose of again instructing the sen-at sen sen- sen senat senat at conferees to make no compromise but to insist that the house take time the Kendrick plan and forget about state or local cooperation Representative Cramton until reo re- recently re recently has assumed tho the air of dicta dIcta- dIctator dictator dictator tor in the conference and tried to club the senate into accepting his plan of state cooperation which he wrote Tote Into the bill in the house However he begged the senate conferees to give him at least least an optional plan of state cooperation admitting that he must have that much in order to save his face when he be goes back to the house Crampton's appeal evidently swayed Senator Smoot He lie agreed to take proposal to the senators and for himself seemed disposed to accept it in the main But nut If it Smoot was sympathetic ever every other west west- western western ern senator was hard bard hearted The senators saw in Cramton's offer of ol compromise hIs admission that the cannot dictate to the senate and they thedo do not propose to give away their ad- ad advantage advantage advantage vantage |