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Show 57 goading by Senators Idaho's th2t in the s t and d L"'1 and Fr'anc.Ls G. congressional delegation +aken was not Tewlands unan irnous by its senior senator, Eeyburn In his hiGhly indignant. c La.irie Reed Smoot be came tirade which followed he ex- P2..rt: eloauent wor-ds here in regard to the 0:: the nat-urcl resources of the coun try, 221d I hC2.rC. eloquent wor-ds abou t the forests that "tere to hold the waters and irrigate the lands. What be corae s 0::: tf'.at eloquence and the reasoning that was ':litlin it if yO'J. are going to give the lands to the Land grabbe}_"'\? \;h2.t is the use of conserving the "iate!"s of t}:e courrtr-y to irrigate the lands under those conditions?33 I he ar d ... 80:::e presel"V2.-Clon In the the opposition land of Ohio. COIl1.Dittee on Eouse "las enlarged homestead bill, by Representative Paul minority report which Public L2J1ds, debates, the on led clearly In both the and in the ture, debate appeared How'l and hammer-ed How- of the House over on his the signasame therl1e ho::;_este2deI' C2l1 no t nake 2. living on 160 0: ld, t her e is sonething Yll"\o1.C Hi th the If the trouble is \':i th Land or t!1e home s te nde r the 12.11Q a ea-cer CU211.ti ty of th2.t kind of Land If the trouble is ould not helD the iituation. wi th the hone ste ade r the amount of land he enters If the ... 2 c:c-es .. , cuts very little On the fib1J.re .JLi, other hand, J3u.S., Representative Congress, Senate, Frank H. 60th Conr.:::., 1st Eonde11 sess., 459. ConeTessio;12_1 Record, C VII, The pleas z or- conservation to wh i ch rieybu rn Bade reference were heard in some connection other than the enlarged homestead bill. fa:y 18, 1908, 34u.S., Congress, House, To Provide For an Enlarged Rept. 1513 o Accompany S. 6155, 60th Cong., 1st sess., 1908, p. 8. See also U.S., Con[ress, House, 60th 1st se ss Cong l::ay 11, 1903, Con2:reSion2.l Record, C VII, Horrlestead, H. ; 6093. , , , I |
