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Show LAST LEGISLATIVE FIGHT 237 wish some day to build a plant on the same site. Here again the skein of the Western Web was clearly revealed - the schemes of the Bureau to expand its control from the seventeen western states, in which its operations were still confined by law, to the entire United States. "This Concerns Oklahoma!" cried the Oklahoma City Times, and went on to say of the Arizona project: 338 "This is vastly different from the Hoover Dam Project, which is so set up that it must pay for itself with interest at three per cent payable to the federal treasury for a period of fifty years. The Central Arizona project does not require the execution of any contracts whatsoever in advance of the expenditure of the United States for construction costs." Hearst newspapers had long condemned the project, and now renewed their attack by pointing out that "the issue at stake is whether the United States, at a time when every man, woman and child is being taxed to the taxable limit, should approve the spending of nearly a billion dollars on a fantastic promotion scheme for which there is neither need nor reason." Full page edi- torials and cartoons appeared simultaneously in Hearst papers across the nation.339 The Chicago Tribune lashed out against "Packed Committees," stating: "From the Central Arizona Pro- ject Association we have received what is called a progress report. The progress reported is the approval by the Senate's Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of a bill to push the seven-hundred million dollar project along. " 'To Arizonans,' says the progress report, 'this was added confirmation of something we have known all |