Show mm HITCHCOCK is SHUT B THIS congress is endeavoring to take arri gation work away from secretary of inter or and create an independent bureau washington the senate committee on irrigation has reported favorably the bill which recently passed the house providing that the reclamation service shall constitute a pendent bureau in charge of a dire tor to be appointed by the president and who shall receive a salary of 6 a year the senate committee amended tie house bill so as to take control of reclamation work almost entirely out of the charge of the secretary of the interior the bill as amended provid ing that the director of the service shall have control of examinations and surveys and shall locate construct operate and maintain irrigation works as provided in the irrigation act sub eject to the approval of the secretary of the interior in routine matter only the bill also provides that until the president appoints a director of the tecla matlon service the duties of the office shall be performed by the dl rector of the geological survey who ahall receive a salary of 4 in ad i to his present compensation the bill as reported by the committee it s believed will have the support of the geological survey and reclamation garvice officers and will be opposed vigorously by the secretary of the in gerior it is probable the bill will pass the senate as amended as most members generally do not approve the constant opposition which has been manifested by the secretary of the interior to the full util bation of the irrigation fund |