Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-07 | Page 1 | Pact Upheld by Kellogg before Group in Senate

P PACT ACI UPHELD Of BY KELLOGG G BEFORE Rf GROUP CROUP IN SENATE Secretary Questioned as to tc Desirability of U U. S. S Reservation SEES NO NEED I Johnson Opens Debate on Dam Bill BillS ill S By PAUL R. R MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Dec Dee 7 United Press Secretary Press Secretary of State Frank B B. B. B Kelloggs Kellogg's defense of his antiwar treaty under questioning by some doubtful members of the senate foreign foreign for for- eign rel relations committee was the outstanding development of the day in congress The treaty has been signed by nine fifty nations Some o of his questioners talked vaguely about abou I th the desirability ty of a reservation prote protecting pro pro- pro te ting this nation from European intrigues Senator James A A. Ii Reed need of Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- and some others appeared to tobe tobe tobe be laying the ground for a reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion specifically protecting this country against any possibility that tha the Monroe 1 doctrine might b be waived in any pa particular lar by y the treaty and against any ny inference that the United States StateS' assumed any moral obligations in Iri the affairs o of other na nations tIon'S S Kellogg maintained the tre treaty ty did ajl things as Mit ait it stands CONTIN CONTINUE ROUTINE The The committee will iii meet ag again ln Tuesday to question Kellogg fur fur- ther Meantime the senate and the house continued in routine fashion the senate listening to a defense of the Johnson dam dam- bill by Sen Senator toi Pittman Democrat Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- vada Yada and the house wrangling over details of ot the first appropriation bIll of the s session the treasury am and postoffice department supply bill f for next year ear The OOOO Austrian debt s settlement set set- t- t was started on Its way toward early adoption receiving the sanction of at the house ways anc and means means' means means' committee No strenuous opposition to the measure has de developed de- de On the senate side O. O A. A Larrazola Larra- Larra zola the new Republican senator from New Mexico was sworn In for forthe forthe forthe the short term erm and Chairman VatSOn Watson Vat Wat- son of the Interstate commerce corn com com committee arranged f for r open hearings on his bill providing restricted regulation regulation regulation regu- regu regu regu- lation o of the bituminous coal in iri- iri Johnson Speaks on Probable Dam Cost W WASHINGTON Dec Dee 7 AP AP- AP Senator Johnson o of C California opened debate on the Swing John son son Boulder canyon canYOndam dam bill in the senate today by reading a statement o of the reclamation bureau which h he said showed shoVed practically all of or the large dams In the country had cost more than was originally estimated Some opposition to the tho Boulder dam bill lately has been based on Continued d on page 6 PACT UPHELD BY KELLOGG BEFORE GROUP IN SENATE Continued from page 1 1 the board of ot engineers engineers' s report that the entire project would would r cost around whereas whereas Iho tho bill calls cans for Following the Californians Californian's statement Senator l ari Democrat Nevada dIscussed discussed dis- dis discussed dis dIs- cussed this report which he lie said sald disproves the contention of Senator Smoot Republican Utah that the Boulder BouMer project Js is not feasible FLOOD DANGER f r Senator Pittman said there there- was greater danger of flood destruction In the Imperial valley vaney than in the Mississippi declaring It was the duty of congress to give protection against such a danger even though no financial return should be received re re- re- re Arizona he said should ratify the compact Arizona and California California Califor Califor- nia must get together Senator m challenged statements statements' statements statements statements' state state- ments ments' by Senator Hayden Democrat Democrat Democrat Demo Demo- crat Arizona relative to the distribution distribution distri distri- of ot water He asserted that Arizona had attached reservations to its acceptance of ot the water division di division di- di vision plan proposed by the governors governors' governors governors' governors governors' gover gover- nors' nors conference and that the reservations reservations reser reser- had never been approved by the upper basin states Under that plan California would have been given feet acre-feet of water Arizona feet acre-feet and Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- vada yada acre