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Show LEAGUE OP THE SOUTHWEST The League of the Southwest is an organization to which all politi- j cal and commercial bodies in the southwest send delegates, in an effort ef-fort to unite the Southwest in doing those things which will help builu up the country. Their annual meeting held in Southern Sou-thern California, has just adjourned and judging from the reports printed print-ed in Southern California, papers, it must have been a raw fizzle. It would appear that a few delegates, dele-gates, mostly from Los Angeles, attempted at-tempted to control the meeting, especially es-pecially the resolutions commMtee, and in order to do so, they would have the meeting take the form of a mass meeting in which every person present would have the right to vote. Other states, notably, Utah, Colorado, Colo-rado, Nevada, and New Mexica, held that each state should have equal voting strength. That as the meeting was held in California, it was natural natu-ral that there should be more representatives repre-sentatives from California than from any other state. A resolution committee com-mittee was appointed and while i' was out drafting resolutions, a Los Angeles member of the convention moved that they adjourn and go home, and this was done. Following are a couple of clippings from California Cali-fornia papers, showing how some of them feel about it: The San Bernardino Sun comments com-ments as follows upon the position a few politicians have placed the state in : "It may be doubted whether California Cal-ifornia ever presented such a sorry sor-ry spectacle as that exhibited by delegates representing a part of this state at the League, of the So'.tV1.-west, So'.tV1.-west, in session at Riverside. We do not believe they constitute a majority major-ity of the California delegation, hut they have been able ro so dominate the situation and prevent, a vote on the question that California appears In the unenviable position of refusing refus-ing a square deal to visiting delegations delega-tions from six neighboring states, and five of them have absolutely withdrawn from the conference and the sixth one is in sympathy with the five, hut has not yet taken that drastic dras-tic action. Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and mostly LosAn-geles, LosAn-geles, has refused the eminently fair request that voting on vital questions ques-tions shall be by slates, instead of by individual delegates. California has more delegates in the confercncc-than confercncc-than all the other six states. That is natural. If the conference were In . Denver ( in all probability Colorado Colo-rado would have mare delegates than all the ; ether states, and the uncomfortable-position into which California Califor-nia has been crowded is accentuated by. the fact that, at the last session Of the League, hel 1 n Denver. California Cali-fornia had only three delegates present pres-ent in person, but without even a request, re-quest, and on their own initiative, the other states adopted a rele of voting vot-ing by states, thus g-ving California j equal representation. That fair ami ; just concession no. not a conces- j sion but a right, has been denier1 a: ; Riverside and Lo I:f;eles and tbur-j delegates which ?v,r pathize with the j rule or ruin policy of he. public ownership group V i'n there can what glory there is in driving five states out of the cnfernce. ! "The situation lia-: developed a sentiment that makes the whob-Southwest whob-Southwest suspi-ion:- of California in general and Los Angeles in particular, par-ticular, and tha' ought to take some very radical re! ion to ei;le-r unhorse the faction that is ru'ning Where it cannot rule, or prepare to take on the sackcloth and-ashes role, for -it certainly will be its ultimate part, so far as the Southwest Is concerned." con-cerned." The Indio Date I aim says: "The League of the Southwest has ueld its meeting :n Riverside and has accomplished just as much as we expected ex-pected of it. That is nothing. When it would not be used to the advantage of the Los Angeles power group, it could not be used. It was a dirty piece of sk iiicluggery on the part of Los Angeies to foster the ceding and th i, after failing to control it, to move for an adjourn-n-'nt at a time wiicn most of the delegates were away and waiting for the report of the resolutions committee. com-mittee. The motion to adjourn was made by a Los Angeles man, one John W. Kamp. who was a member of the resolutions commliteo and who knew the report to be made In a few minutes was going against the Los Angeles power Interests. It was a desperate effort on the part of Los Angeles power Interests to gain popular support to some kind of a program that would give Los Angeles control of the Colorado River and the Boulder dam project. The six "outlaw states, the Imperial. Imper-ial. Palo Verde and Conchclla valleys, val-leys, are a unite in the support Mr. Davis's report as approved by Secretary Sec-retary Fall anil the President. All of these interests are detelmined. that all shall have an even-handed benefit bene-fit from the Boulder dam, and in this undertaking we have an able champion cham-pion in the person of Congressman Phil D. Swing. If the "even-handed" program don't receive (be favorable action of Congress it will be because of soma further underhanded tactics on the pan of those men who wish to mo-nopoliz mo-nopoliz the power from the Colorado. Colo-rado. Look well to it, and bo ready to lend a band whenever called upon by our local county water board. Thus far they have made a good fight, and if we continue our undivided undi-vided support, they will win out In the most gigantic undertaking of the Southwest. As th ngs stand now. the chief of he rf.'-'-imatinn service, the Secretary Secre-tary of the interior, and the President Presi-dent have all approved and are rp--ommen,ijr,g to Congress, everything asked for by the Coaehella Valley. It will take some very powerful Interests In-terests to forestall us In getting favorable fa-vorable legislation along the linea asked for. |