Show INTERIOR BILL CRAMPTON compromise GIVEN TO SMOOT QUICKLY REFUSED BY westerners crampton appeal evidently swayed senator smooth As he agreed to take Cram Cramp tona proposal to the senate washington D C senator smoot of 0 utah who heads the senate members of the conference committee on the interior department bill stepped into a hornets nest when after another meeting ot of the conference he be proposed to various western sen senators alors that the senate abandon the kendrick plan of federal aid to settlers on new irrigation projects and accept a compromise proposal advanced by representative senta tive cramton head of the house conferees the new crampton pl plan an briefly was the old state cooperation dressed up in new clothes coupled with an alternative plan of financing the settlers through cc corporations irp orations formed on the projects without exception the senators to whom smoot made his suggestion quickly and emphatically rejected the proposal and reminded the utah senator that only a few days ago at a meeting of all western senators he was told to beje ct absolutely cram tons house provisions and to insist on the kendrick plan and that western senators without exception aou would stand by him on the program so indignant were some of the senators over the developments that they de CIO cf d to call another meeting tor for the purpose of again instructing the senat conferees to make no compromise but to insist that the house bouse take the kendrick plan and forget about state or local cooperation representative cramton until recently e has assumed the air of dictator in the conference and tried to club the senate into accepting ac his plan of state cooperation which he wrote into the bill in the house however he begged the senate conferees to give him at least an optional plan of state cooperation admitting that he must ave have that much in order to save his face when he goes back to the house Cram appeal evidently swayed senator smoot he agreed to take craytons Cram tons proposal to the senators and tor for himself seemed disposed to accept it in the main but it if smoot was sympathetic every other western senator was hard hearted the senators saw in craytons Cram tons offer of compromise his admission that the cannot dictate to the senate and they do not dot propose to give away their advantage yan tage |