Deseret Evening News | 1909-12-21 | Page 8 | Mondell Defends Ballinger's Policy

MONDELL lO DELL DEFENDS BALLINGERS POLICY Washington Dec iSec 20 Scouting the tho Idea that there is a water power trust and defending Secy Sec Ballinger against some Romo of ot tho adverse criticism of his administration of ot land laws Mondell of Wyoming spoke to day In favor of tho the water power particularly on the tho streams He declared the federal government has no constitutional authority to exercise ex control over the waters of non streams for any an purpose The attempt to establish such federal con I trul he s said ald was waa an effort to take tako con I from the people who now no exorcised exercised ed it through the states slates and lodge It with the federal bureaus Calling attention to the fact that Colorado Wyoming V Montana Idaho Utah Oregon Washington California Nevada and Arizona and Now Mexico contained half the available water power nf or th the u h a VA rt tho the phantom of or o a i water power power e mono monopoly poly in that region which certain persons had attempted to conjure up was indescribably grotesque and ridi rIdiculous ridiculous culous Mr Mondell spoke of the Influence of certain powerful bureaus of tho the federal government In building up and fostering superficial public sen Ho lie referred to what he lie termed term ed tho loose talk about giving away awa power of Incalculable value alue dering the water power powel of the public domain etc After Representative ad dress Chairman Mann of oC tho the com committee committee on and foreign commerce defended his hili bill on fed federal federal federal eral control of or water and power sites Against what ho termed was un unwarranted warranted construction of Its language by IW Mr Mondell MondellA A colloquy ensued between the two in which Mr Mann lann exhibited consid considerable considerable erable crable Impatience and finally exclaim exclaimed ed edAn Anybody An hod on earth excepting tho gentleman from Wyoming W can see tho the meaning of my m bill The trouble Is lEI that ho he is so wrought up over this subject that tho action of any member from cast east of the Rocky mountains in In a bill hull having a n bearing on it Is like waving a red flag at a bull