Show IM MONELL Bill 1 AlT N Nr r PROPOSED r Commissions of Utah Idaho and Nevada Consider Consider Consider Con Con- sider Measure Recommendations that the details in developing eloping soldier settlement projects bo ho left to state officials and that the tho states should have the right to share In the management of oC projects toward Which they contribute financially were suggested as 1 amendments to the Mondell bill till at a meeting In the tho state capitol of the soldier settlement comI commissions com corn ml missions of Utah Idaho and Nevada I Other amendments proposed aro aroI that the secretary of oC the Interior bo ho authorized to make loans for Cor the purpose purpose purpose pur pur- I pose of or C farm rm equipment stock and tho the like up to a maximum of or 75 per cent of oC tho value alue of oC such equipment in instead instead instead in- in stead of oC CO GO per cent as lS the bill now provides that the tin maximum amount of or such loan Joan be he Increased from OO to 1000 and that the Jo government mt may withhold 10 per pel cent of the wages eR of oC s who work on I projects durIn during preparation the I Imone mone money to bo ho applied on the tho fir first t payment If IC the soldier takes a fl farm Carm under the tho provisions IHo of oC the tho act Valuable Information relative to possible projects tI throughout ou hout the tho states represented was furnished to lo tho tim commissioners rs I by hy Bishop William I. I L. L Hansen Hanson colonization agent of the Mormon ormon church W. W R. R Wallace lre presided as al chairman of oC the conference and J J. J Leo Meehan acted as secretary In the absence of oC 0 O. J J. J Grimes Grime who is secretary of the tho Utah board Others present were I Colonel S. S I C. C Brady oCI of oC I Pocatello president of oC the Idaho Reclamation association Mr Young secretary of tho tim Idaho commission Dr E E. E G G. Peterson president of oC the tho Utah Agricultural college who is a n member of oC the Utah commission and Bishop Hansen I |