Show LANE ILANE FAVORS GUT CUT CUTA IN DRAINAGE FUND A Action of Retiring Secretary Upsets Reclamation Plans of West Feb w WASHINGTON Feb 10 One One of the last official acts of ot Franklin I K Lane retiring secretary of ot the in interior interior interior in- in was to recommend that the sum of demanded by Western governors and c congressmen for reclamation work be cut down to This would make malte the proposed program program almost inoperative arid and the action action of the the former secretary has caused consternation among friends of Western reclamation projects projects pro pro- je ts especially as it was understood that Mr Lane Lane had favored the OO bond Issue There is a slight ray o of hope in the fact fact- that the new secretary of agriculture agri- agri culture 1 E E. T. T Meredith has long been personally Interested In Western problems problems lems Jems and has bas in fact tact invested th the most of his private vast vase fortune fort fortune n in inId in Id Idaho ho reclamation projects H He might it is thought support th the Western governors In prevailing upon the department of ot the interior to as asfor ask for an appropriation in excess of ot th the figure stated t. t by Mr Lane |