The Great Plains Committee studied the conditions in the Northwest. including those in North and South Dakota. Montana. and other States similarly circumstanced during the drought period and the time they were eaten out of their crops by grasshoppers. and so forth. and the result was that that committe reported that it was necessary in order to meet the relief situation to provide a sum of approximately $5.000.000. to be expended within the discretion of the President of the United States. and to be supplemented by such sums from the Works Relief program as could be allotted to that purpose. In addition to the tremendous expenditures that have been made in the drought areas for temporary relief without effecting a permanent solution. the conservation and irrigation projects constructed under this amendment will serve to halt the emigration of many farmers who otherwise would be forced to seek other locations. This is to take care of small irrigation projects that would help people to come into our State from the Dakotas and other States. The amendment that has been written into this bill by the Senate is simply for the purpose of lifting the restriction of $50.000 on the amount to be spent for any one project which was heretofore authorized by this Congress in 1938.
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