Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-02-04 | Page 5 | Is Flayed by Auerbach

if AD IS flA no noI I Dr cl mation Official Is cored ored for Stand on Colo Riv River r Waters in the st state te senate as day a were extended through greater part of the afternoon ere concerned almost wholly routine matters excepting th the sag of some bills on second d ding g. g Auerbach bill No 12 assert assert- Utah's stand on the question of the Green and ando o dO rivets ers In Utah was passed second reading without a dis- dis ting vote tote Preceding Preceding- the roll call mr ator Auerbach delivered a brief r toss Ss to the senate as follows T W e bill has been o offered fere for consideration and favorable fa on on Senator Auerbach said th the thought in mInd that Its vis vISions ons would clear the purpose of our state In relation t ti ls is paragraph at the time the was passed Re e are arc frequently and sharply 1 ded that whenever the rights jar J r state come in conflict with tile the designs of officials f to tenor department nt they are given consideration These officials proceed In the execution of their plans under the theory that that the have sparsely settled states or of the West Vest no rIghts which they bound are to respect In their exalted d conception of the federal powers with which they are armed they show a disposItion to wrest from our state every right prIvilege and prerogative that conflicts with their designs MEAD ATTACKED An example of of thIs pernicious aggressiveness assumed b by officials of the state department Is exam exem- in the letter written yesterday yesterday yester- yester day by Elwood l I ad reclamation Moad chief of tile the department In his dis of h how Colorado w the waters of the the river can be allocated to states states' of the upper baSIn b y yIt congressional action It Is a matter of astonishment to me that such as the chief or of the reclamation has department who wh In spent so many years of his life the West Vest In connection irrigation with the the problems of the intermountain inter inter- mountain states and who has on so many occasions come In conflict with this question of state state rights can handed at this time assume the highhanded highhanded high high- attitude that the tho federal government has the power to override override over over- ride the authority or of a state In Its ownership of its streams So thIs senate bill No 12 Mr 11 President has been submItted in a spirIt of caution wIth the Idea that We should leave n no opportunity b- b by which our rights might be assailed Or that any admission on our pal part can be read to the meaning of this clause of the state seven compact that might In the future be a source If vexation to us T The Auerbach measure now Is on the third reading calendar and will VIII probably be received on Its final fint passage Monday l Because of the th apparently united opInion of officials officials that Utah Is In grave danger dangel of losing some of its valuable rightson rIghts on the rivers unless their Unity is asserted It is not expected the bill will encounter any difficulty culty In the house and that It ill horty be passed and signed by the governor OTHER BILLS READ Other bills passed on second readIng read read- Ing Thursday were Mr 1 Callister's measure amendIng the firemen's pension law and Mr 11 Andrus' Andrus house bill relating to the befouling of culinary culinary culi- culi nary water by stock pens etc These two measures also are expected expected ex- ex to be passed Monday 1 or orT orea Tuesday T ea Five new ew bills were introduced In Inthe inthe the senate Thursday bringing the total to four fifty measures In the upper ho house se The bills ills are briefly s rn I summarized d in the tho legislative ve calendar calendar cal cal- elsewhere in this Issue Following Follo completion of business Thursday afternoon the senate adJourned adjourned ad- ad until Monday londay at 2 o'clock The adjournment was due to the fact that the trIp to Cedar City to inspect the branch agricultural college made by three committees each from the house and senate t ok away so many senators that a quorum coUld not be assembled The solons left on their southern trip Thursday nIght at 1130 o'clock and were expected to arrIve In Cedar City Friday morning spending the day and Saturday in the soUthern town returnIng to Salt Lake Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day morning