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Excerpt from Indian Appropriation Bill: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives, 1913
The chairman. I see many items in the bill which are asked for which are under irrigation districts in various parts of the country, and that is along the line of the argument that you are making now.
Mr. Sells. The reason for this is that we believe that perhaps it might be better, generally speaking, not to ask for an enlargement of irrigation until we have measurably caught up with the other end and harmonized the situation.
The chairman. In other words, you desire the land cultivated that we now have under these irrigation districts and plants?
Mr. Sells. That is the thought, Mr. Chairman, that while these plants should be sustained, and certainly in some instances developed, there are some conditions where it is not now justifiable to make additional appropriations for irrigation plants. But in the instances you speak of, and as a general thought, the answer to your suggestion is that we ought to exert ourselves to harmonize things and without delay give the Indians an opportunity, by way of equipment, to take advantage of the conditions that are now upon them.
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