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Show POWERS OK MONTANA. On tho Segregation of the Arid Lands of tile Several Western Ntates. Chicago, Jan. 1. I'uited States Senator Power of Montana, who stopped over here on his w ay to Washington, makes no secret of his opposition to Justice Field for the reason rea-son that he thinks the justice is using his influence in-fluence to put men friendly to the railroad companies on the bench. Power said iu re gard to matters at the great Irrigation convention con-vention at Salt Lake City, "The Field men showed up their hutius by favoring plans to segregation of the arid lauds. In other words in sixteen arid land states the idea was to take the arid lands from the government govern-ment and give them to tho several Btatos. California bad experience of that kind and she is virtually controlled today by the railroads. The Northern controls about 17,-OOO.UOO 17,-OOO.UOO acres out of iHj,ljuo,l)uo acres of our mineral and arid lauds and we can't afford to let a judge give decisions iu favor of sequestration and giving these land grant owners an opportunity to make a huge poli. tical machine out of the irrigation scheme. |