Show IME W ANT 6 SANE POLICY IDAHO SENATOR CHAMPIONS THE WEST IN EARNEST PLEA FOR conservation leclare Oe Oc clare clares it a violation of constitution to withhold power sites from the use of western states who pay millions into treasury washington what wo we want Is a sane practical conservation policy under reasonable regulation permitting the development of our natural resources in accordance with the natural laws of progress and industrial growth declared senator bonali in addressing the senate on oil monday during the consideration of conservation legislation mr horah borah spoke scolie as aa the champion of tho the west it would be a magnificent scheme indeed ho he exclaimed to compel the whole great west weal to hold its vast resources in idleness leness ld deprive its people of their enjoyment and use and compel them to pay tribute to those resources of which you chave taken possession here in the past east and developed at your our own free will contending that it was a violation or of every principle of the constitution to withhold power sites from the use of the western states mr air borah inquired it if illinois or massachusetts recel receives yes thousands or even millions of dollars as a revenue for their water power and idaho receives nothing but on oil the other hand pays into the federal treasury Is there equality among tile the states lie ile said i 1 thit the contention that natural resources in a state belonged to all the people of the united states was all right in theory but that in prudica it was utterly untrue |