Show SAN FRANCISCO WINS FIGHT FOR KETCH HETCH HETCHY WATER Bill Passes Senate Awaits Only Signature of Pres President dent W Dee Dec The Tho Baker Dill bill giving ing San FranCisco water supply supply sup sup- ply and nd power rights in the Hetchy valley of the ho river Yosemite national park passed the Senate at 1157 1151 Saturday night by bya a vote oto ot of 43 to 25 The Tho bill had bad previously pro pre passed the tho house in identically tho same form and goes at once to the president for signature The Tho passage of th the bill biB minutes before the hour set for the arbitrary adjournment of the tho senate was at attended with unusual scones Fear Fearful ul that the final vote yoto would be defeated by lack of time Vice Pr President Marshall the tho thor I r reading ading clerk and members of the tho son son- ate ato themselves brought a week of do- do bate to an end in sixteen minutes of hurried voting Party leaders were divided divided di- di vided in th tho final vote voto on the bill biU The Tho victory for San Francisco ends a fight that has been boen waged in con con- gr gres s for several years in which con and nature clubs took a conspicuous part The bill biU gives San Francisco authority to erect a dam Inthe in inthe the Retch Hetch Hetchy valley creating a storage reservoir authority to flood the ne necessary essary parts of the valley to create eleCtric power and sell seU it under the thc local regulations of California and to construct conduits and canals through public publio lands whore where necessary as part of the the city's s swater water supply system Provision is IS made to protect the water rights fights of settlers on irrigated lands in the Turlock and Modesto irrigation irrigation gation districts in hi- hithe the San Joaquin val re by and the city win will ho bo required to construct roads the park including a scenic highway to provide provida sightly buildings and to furnish power at cost to irrigation users Opponents of the hill bill included those who claimed the beauty of th tho valley wo Id be spoiled and that settlers on irrigated irrigate lands would woud be deprIved of an adequate sup ply of water |