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Show DELL NTS IKillGip AID Washington, March 10 Tho nenato recently passed tho Carter bill, authorizing au-thorizing the Issuance of $30,000,000 worth of certificates of Indebtedness I In the west to complete irrigation projects pro-jects already begun, preferring this method of raising the money to a bond issue. The bill has not been acted upon by the house, but the ways and means committee has it under consideration con-sideration with a bill Issued by Representative Rep-resentative Mondell of Wyoming, chairman of tho committee on public lands, )rropoafng a bond Issue. Mr. Mondell appeared before the committee today In behalf of his bill, contending that cu the government had started many of tho projects, it was morally bound to completo them as thousand. of tettlers had made entries on the basis of the government govern-ment projects. The cost of completing complet-ing tho works is estimated at ?S5,000, and Mr. Mondell argued that with tho lond Issue and tho $7,500,000 additional addi-tional with the projects themselves bring In annually, nil of them would be completed in seven or eight years. |