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OCR Page 1 of 4H.C. HANSBROUGH , CHAIRMAN,
KNUTE NELSON,
U.H.BERRY,
D.CLARK,
S.D.M9ENERY,
T.R.BARD,
A.J.MC LAURIN,
THOS.KEARNS,
PARIS GIBSON,
R.J.GAMBLE,
F.T.DUBOIS,
J.R.BURTON,
G.NEWLANDS,
DiCnited States Senate,
C.H.DIETRICH
C.W.FULTON,
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS,
FRED DENNETT, CLERK.
2.
the qualified engineers who are now in the service of
the Geological Survey would be employed under the
supervision of an eminent chief, whose entire attention
would be devoted to the important work of construction,
leaving to the reclamation bureau the duty of examina-
tions and surveys, the measuring of streams, the with-
drawing of lands for reservoir sites and lands to be
irrigated, the supervising of water distribution, the
analysis of water, the arrangements as to annual pay-
ments, and the final transfer of the management of the
several irrigation enterprises at the proper time from
the government to the beneficiaries.
It is not my purpose to reflect in any way upon
the head of the reclamation service; but, Mr. President,
I submit that no one man is big enough to cover the
whole ground and do justice to the important work, the
details of which congress could not forsee when it en-
acted the irrigation law. That the multitude of
duties now devolving upon one individual should, and
ultimately will be, divided as indicated in the bill,
there can be no reasonable doubt.
I
have no question
as to the view of congress on this subject. The time
for the division of these tremendous labors and respons-
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