Show t M 4 M t t. t M t t t t M t M M t H i t j t M t M t M t M M 0 M I M I M t 1 M i TION BILL THE IRRIGATION t tt t q t M t M I 4 M 4 I I HH 4 t I M 4 I 4 M I M I M-M-M-M M 4 M 4 M M M t t M MOur t Our Washington today inform us that i n yesterday the House Committee on Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation gation favorably reported the Senate irrigation bill substituting it for fot the Newlands Newlan s bill some of the provisions of wl which ch were objected to in various arious q quarters arters The measure reported the details of which have haye appeared in The Telegram heretofore is a fairly satisfactory one Ye We do not see much of anything to criticise in it with the exception of the provision sion that owners of land irrigated under the act at must be actual occupants occupants pants of ot or residents o on ohe th same This will work a hardship in parts of Utah where the village system system tem tern is in being farmers living in a settlement to together gether and going out to their lands to labor We Weare e eare are are particularly sorry to see anything done that may nay be calculated to discourage Gr or prevent resort to t tJ the c community plan of country life It is in the interests interests of civilization progress education and happiness The solitude and monotony of life upon the farm remote from neighbors are s lJ-s deplorable de pl rable and to a great extent ought to be unnecessary unnecessary essary evils Those of us who have seen the farming farming farm farm- ing village life of Germany can appreciate its advantages advantages ad ad- vantages over oyer other othel systems It is hardly known in America because agricultural conditions on the Eastern United States have made for for the farming of Jarge areas by single individuals involving the wide s segregation of people in any given locality But segregation is far less necessary in irrigable areas because farms are smaller and the their r owners in many cases eases could gather gathel in villages at points central central cen cen- to and near by their holdings This will not not r b be practicable under the provision sion of the proposed Irrigation law to which we have referred and the fact is regrettable in the the- extreme Otherwise we are inclined d to regard the billas bill billas as as S a good one It meets the views of our home people peo peo- pIe ile in retaining the control of State waters to the States and in making it mandatory upon the See Sec of the Interior who is to be the administrator tor of the irrigation law if it passes to proceed under un un- i del der State laws in all n matters of appropriation distribution distribution distribution dis dis- dis- dis and the use of waters The bill also protects protects pro pro- all vested rights Federal State or individual Jn In the tIle waters of of any interstate stream As sill all ll irrigation interests to be S appear reas reas- S o ably well satisfied with the bill as it stands and active opposition seems to be abating we are euS eu- eu S to hope that it will get through the House without out special difficulty and soon Should that happen we of Utah would have ha one more occasion Ifor f r thanksgiving and rejoicing |