Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1906 — CASNON CALLED IT A STEAL: [ARTICLE]

CASNON CALLED IT A STEAL:

What He Said to Reeder, of Kansas, of the Reclamation Act of Congress. Boise, Ida., Sept. 7.—-The fourteenth National Irrigation Congress closed its sessions after voting to hold the next congress at Sacramento,Cal., and electing as president Governor George E. Chamberlain, of Oregon. The shouters for “a hundred millions more for Irrigation” came before the congress with a minority report from the committee on resolutions demanding that the national congress authorize a bond issue to raise such a fund. After a spirited debate the minority report was voted down. Representative Reeder, of Kansas,, opposing the minority report, quoted Speaker Cannon as having said ten minutes after the passage of the reclamation act: “Reeder, that’s the biggest and the slickest steal I have seen since I have been in congress.” Senator Dubois, of Idaho, stated that but for the personal efforts of President Roosevelt the reclamation act could not have been passed.