Show BALLINGER MAKES STATEMENT Enters Most Emphatic Denial of the Acquirement of Water Power Sites By Private Parties Washington Secretory Ballinger or the interior department who has returned to Washington after an ox eiifllvo tour of Inspection of tho pub 110 domain and Interests In the far vent under the Jii > mticft oi its tlo partment gave out on Wednesday a statement which Is regarded as a declaration of his policy as to those matters The secretary reltoratos without fear of contradiction the statement hitherto mado In his behalf that since his Incumbency no waterpower sites on mho public domain theretofore withdrawn have been secured by private pri-vate parties and that ho has energetically ener-getically mode every effort by tempo nary withdrawals to segregate existIng exist-Ing power sites on tho public domain 111 order to enable congress to legis Into for more prudent disposition Secretary Dnlllngcr states that dur hog hla l trip most of the prnclpaJ government reclamation projects have uuan VISIUH Hmit ot them by the wn ate committee on Irrigation The water wa-ter users and settlers upon tho reclamation recla-mation projects havo been conferred I with as well as questions which day involve tho Improvement of the scrV Ivo and the advancement of the In arcsts of thin sellers Respecting reclamation work the studies mado by the secretary have Inspired him the statement says with ambition to complete existing pro < meets as rapidly as business prudence and moneys available will permit and he Is earnestly in favor of securing authority from congress for tho Issuance Issu-ance of bonds against tile reclamation funds to give the service tho meant whereby all existing projects can bt speedily completed and necessary extensions ex-tensions undertaken |