Show irrigation BILL IN THE HOUSE washington juno 12 when the house met today mr ray N Y ot the judiciary committee asked consent that after the consideration of bills under of the rules Tuesday bo set apart for the bill to amend lie bankruptcy act there w 01 tion ami the order wasi nade mr dalzell then presented 0 special order for the consideration of the senate irrigation bill one day for general debate and one day for amendment under the anve rule pending alio adoption of the rule saturday was sul for friday for the consideration of private pension billa and the order setting aside sunday june for eulogies on alie life and character of the etc new york was modiner so abo continue the session on that day as to permit of eulogies on the lato representative otey mr underwood of alabama favored the adoption of the rule he argued that the only method of building up the arid land states was to provide for their irrigation the bill would not take a dollar out of the treasury he said it would only use the proceeds from alic sale of lands in cacci state for the benefit of such state 6 sir Shai roth colo also argued for the adoption of the rule mr newlands icv also supported the rule the revolution rebo lution then was adopted the house resolved itself into committee of the whole and entered upon considers i tion of the irrigation bill it was ar ranged that mr Mondell Wyo should control the time for the measure and mr ray N Y again I 1 mr mondell submitted an extended in divor of the bill the of land that might ultimately be reclaimed by irrigation was estimated lie faid between and acres lie discussed biilly the reasons why alie states could not undertake the work alio wisdom of national aid in the reclamation of the arid land of the west lie declared had been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the people and of both political parties in national conventions alio fear expressed in some quarters eliat an increase in irrigated area will affect the values of farm in atie middle west was clearly without reasonable foundation and was an extremely narrow and provincial view of a great national question it was estimated he said eliat the pending bill would produce a fund from the sale of public lands of between two and two and a liala million dollars which would gradually it also was estimated that the cot of water to alie settler would be about 10 per acre that at the present rata the bill would bring acres under irrigation mr ray of new york opened hi opposition to the bill lie declared the friends of the measure had sought to create the impression eliat the irrigation of arid lands in the west was a continuation of the free home policy the scheme he said would benefit certain states but at the expense of others the public lands lie contended belonged to the people of all the states this bill proposed to take the proceeds of their sala to develop one section of the country |