WMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS AND SURVEYS UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION PURSUANT TO S. Res. 241 (76th Congress-Extended by S. Res. 139, 79th Congress) AND USE OF PUBLIC LANDS PART 16 PHOENIX, ARIZ. MAY 10 AND 11, 1945 Frated for the use of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1945 ADMINISTRATION AND USE OF PUBLIC LANDS THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC LANDS AND SURVEYS, Phoenix, Ariz. Subcommittee met at 10 a. m. pursuant to call, in the court division No. 3 of the Superior Court of Maricopa County, of Arizona, at Phoenix, Ariz., Senator Carl A. Hatch presiding. at: Senators Carl A. Hatch, of New Mexico (chairman); Garney, of South Dakota; and Raymond E. Willis, of Indiana. ator HATCH. The meeting will come to order. This meeting se hearings are held by authority of resolutions authorizing ate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys to investigate nistration and use of public lands. As you gentlemen are are, discussions have been going on for some time about a pro-crease in the grazing fees under the Taylor Grazing Act. come out here as a subcommittee from the Senate Public Committee to hear you people who are vitally interested in e domain, and to get your viewpoint and hear what you say. I have just talked to Mr. Jamison and suggested there t be any necessity of duplicating a lot of the hearings if we At some general statements and get the broad general picture , of course, supplement it with anything you gentlemen Lave to say. We will be glad to hear you. After we have hat the officials of the Grazing Service who are here may posde some comments to make. We want you to feel perfectly ve us all the information you have, because that is what we -- for. Mr. Jamison, will you come around and sit down there will be convenient for the reporter? Mr. Jamison, will you Your name for the records? JAMISON. Ed Jamison. ator HATCH. I understand Mr. Jamison is and has been for years a member of the Arizona Legislature. You reside at JAMISON. Kingman, Ariz. or HATCH. Mr. Jamison, you may just proceed in your own. tell us what you want us to hear. AIMENT OF ED JAMISON, KINGMAN, MEMBER OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE, PHOENIX, ARIZ. JAMISON. A group of us got together last night and decided would just make a general statement of our viewpoint on the grazing fees. I will make that statement and then each ho is here who desires to do so will make an individual statement particular case. |