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Show REACH AGREEMENT ON EOISE PROJECT WASHIN GTON' May 18 A ttci weeks of consideration, Ihe conference confer-ence committee on the Interior department de-partment appropriation bill ii I reached ait agreement on the reclamation recla-mation appropriations which have bean ;n dispute and the house yete -I day agreed to the conference report. i'nder th agreement, the lioisL'. I Idaho, project gels an appropriation ! of $1 2ft0.t0, the amount originalh I voted by the house, and (80.000 le than the appropriation voted by ! senate. The King Kill appropriation I remains unchanged at 1450.000 The 1 house also he'd steadfast to lis appropriation ap-propriation of $1,200,000 for the Min-Idoka-Amerlcan Falls project and the senate Increase of $50,OUO was abandoned, The senate amendment authorising the secretary of Interior to continue condemnation of lands In the American Ameri-can Falls reservoir 6ile previously had been accepted by the house A compromise was reached on I Ii I Riverton. Wyoming. project appropriation. appro-priation. The conference retained the house appropriation of JG55.0O0. but authorized the use of $2".0 ooo additional addi-tional if. on March 1 next there l ample money In the reclamation fund to permit of this extra expenditure. The appropriation of $ f 7 . 0 0 0 for the Shoshone project was not changed nor was there any change in the appropriation ap-propriation of S.". 000 for the Strawberry valley project. |