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Show GOVERNORS TO TIE SUBJECT OF PUBLIC BOH SALT LAKE, Aug. 16 Three of the score and more of state executives who will attend the conference of governors gover-nors to be held at Salt Lake next week arrived yesterday. They are Governors Gover-nors O. A. Larrazola of New Mexico, Thomas E. Campbell of Arizona and J Robert D. Carey of Wyoming They j came early in order to attend the conference con-ference of western governors, called at the suggestion of Governor Larrazola Larra-zola to discuss measures to be t:iken to have the federal government cede to the various states the unpreserved public domain within their boundaries. Other executives of the eleven "arid" states most interested in the 1 question of the public domain are ex- pected to arrive early today. The conference will mret for consideration of this question at 10 o'cloch this I morning. j With special trains now on their way westward, it is expected that all the goi i -mors will be in Salt Lake by Monday, Mon-day, ready for the first business session ses-sion on Tuesday morning. Governor Campbell of Arizona was accompanied to Salt Lake by Mrs. Campbell With Governor O. A. Larrazola Lar-razola are N. A Fields, state land com-mis com-mis ioner fur New Mexico, and Kd-ward Kd-ward E iing, chairman of the Arizona Ari-zona State Settlement board. Both are promoting the interests of the plan fostered by Governor Larrazola, by which the public domain would come into the possession and jurisdiction of the individual states. Believes Demand Just In speaking of this subject yesterday, yester-day, the New Mexico governor said: "Our demand that the unreserved public domain be ceded to the 6tates is just, right and fair, and we hope to crystalize sentiment among the governors gov-ernors for the plan by discussion of i, I have come with this one object in view. "Just remember that there are in Utah 31,415.919 acres of this public domain do-main from which the state receives no income, over which it has no jurisdiction. jurisdic-tion. There are no legal objections to the transfer of these lands to the state. As a matter of fact, there is provision in the federal constitution that the states 6hall enter the Union on an equal basis I do not consider that the eleven 'arid states are in the Union on a basis equal to other states, when one considers that from 33 to 75 j per cent of their lands are controlled entirely by the federal government, when most of the other states have absolute jurisdiction within their own boundans. 'The meeting of western cattlemen, held in Salt Lake last month, approved U. S. Senator King's bill, now before eonjrress, which would put the public domain under the management of the' department of agriculture. The cat- I Uemen, in their meeting, endorsed this bill .not because they are opposed to state ownership of these lands, but be-cause be-cause they felt they could best get im-mediate im-mediate action by the course they chose. "This question of the public domain is one most vital to all the western states, and we in New Mexico are tremendously tre-mendously interested in the effort to! secure these lands for the states." Governor Campbell yesterday lent his indorsement to the plan fostered by j Governor Larrazola, and said: "The principal reasons why the pub-lie pub-lie domain should be returned to the states in which these lands arc locat-1 ed are: The ease of administration of' the ground by the states and the fact that the lands under state direction1 and control would be made more ac-j ceesible to the people of the state. 1 Arizona Is keenly interested in the plan, for approximately 71 per cent of the total area of the state consists now of the public domain controlled by tho federal government." oo |
