Show SMITH BILL BEING DISCUSSED PERSONAL CANVASS OF ALL MEM TO 10 BE MADE BY congressmen FROM WEST idaho representative Is chairman of committee to work for reclamation work of canvass ca of house houe to start this week washington washing on D C A personal can rass will be made of all members of the house ot of representatives beginning this week with a view ot of acquainting qua inting them w ith fill tho provisions provi ons sons and the importance of the dmitri mcnary bill in the hope that such a campaign of education may develop sufficient interest generally in the hill bill to insure ansur e its ila passage Pris sage ahls session De tion urn tills this plan was rene reached lied saturday at a dinner rit attended tended by most congressmen from the west and by some borne front from the south the dinner hav ing been arranged to agree upon some plan fur fer pepping up the campaign for the new reclamation bill representative french ot of idaho wa made chairman of the booster coin of twenty seven saven members of congress all from the west and south and this committee will direct the campaign of if education serving on tills this committee will vill be congressmen Cong colton ind and leatherwood of utah french and smith of idaho I cCormIck ind and riddick of montana mont ann and twenty one others representative mondell andell Sl of wyoming ly by reason of its his position as house floor lender leader will not serve with the committee representative french sunday assigned to each member of ills his committee ft a list of from fifteen to twenty members to be interviewed thereby embracing the full membership of the house and ila ho says steps will nil be taken at once to ret get the canvass under nay itly tills this same plan was followed mr french says when the western members organized and put through ull the twenty year extension hill bill pud pad the he plan vi was is 9 successful that ill lie conference saturday night agreed to scort to tile the same tactics again in the meeting saturday night there was was some difference of opinion is as to whether the hill bill should be pressed in the house now flow or awalt await action by the senate some me members thought the 1111 would be in better standing if it sh should pass the senate before being abeln brought generally to the attention of r house members but the prevailing sentiment was favor of going ahead in thi the house irrespective of what tile the senate may do especially ai it was stated no definite plans have yet been made to bring tills this bill up for consideration in the senate it was also aln al so realized that if the bill did not got get up lip in fit the senate before debate starts on the tariff bill it may inny be long delayed in the upper tipper branch of congress furthermore sentiment Is developing in fit the house in favor of a series of recesses beginning early in fit may after the appropriation bills have all been passed by that body and if that plan is followed it will be necessary nees sarT to get a vote vole on the bill before the recess starts or it may lie be impossible to get it to bo a vote tills this sec session slon western members who attended the conference that it will hp be no easy task to get so important a bill bif passed sit at a time when the treasury 1 pt empty when taxes are falling short of expectations find and when the fiscal situation is sn qi unsatisfactory nut but they believe that an educational earn cam personally find and persistently con ducted will get sufficient votes in fit time they expect ahe lie canvass of the house may require several weeks |