1. A
Plan
for
Transfer
of
the
Public
Lands
Excerpts
taken
from
the
1932
Congressional
Hearings
on
Granting
Remaining
Unreserved
Public
Lands
to
the
States.
“It
is
futile
to
criticize
without
suggesting
a
remedy.
This
nation
today
is
ruled
by
organized
minorities.
That
we
do
not
like
this
system
of
government
is
no
reason
why
we
should
not
use
it
if
it
is
our
only
recourse.
Bureaus
can
not
exist
without
appropriations.
The
Representatives
from
the
western
states
are
comparatively
too
few
in
number,
and
perhaps
too
anxious
to
have
the
Bureaus
expend
funds
in
their
districts
to
offer
much
hope
of
curbing
the
Bureaus,
but
the
eleven
public
land
states
have
twenty-­‐two
Senators
and
the
Senate
must
approve
all
Bureau
appropriations.
A
little
group
of
about
half
this
number
have
been
the
balance
of
power
in
the
United
States
Senate
for
the
last
decade.
If
fifteen
or
twenty
of
the
western
Senators
will
unite
on
any
fair
policy
for
the
local
control
of
western
lands
they
can
insure
its
adoption.
“The
Governors
of
the
western
states
possess
the
most
powerful
peace
time
weapon,
publicity.
If
you
gentlemen
will
unite
on
a
policy
of
resistence
to
further
Federal
encroachment,
and
the
curtailment
of
present
superfluous
activity
by
the
Federal
Government
in
affairs
that
should
be
handled
by
officials
answerable
to
the
people
at
the
polls,
and
will
arouse
the
citizens
of
your
commonwealth
your
Senators
will
be
glad
to
carry
out
the
wishes
of
your
people,
and
the
control
of
the
lands
and
resources
of
your
states
will
be
vested
where
they
were
intended
to
be,
in
the
hands
of
those
without
whose
adjacent
residency
they
would
be
worthless.
Lands
and
resources
have
always
been
obtained
or
retained
by
fighting.
Human
nature
has
not
changed.
If
the
West
desires
to
control
its
own
resources
it
must
fight
to
do
so.”
Thomas
Maddock,
from
a
1931
address
to
the
Western
Governors,
added
the
1932
Congressional
Record
in
the
hearings
on
Granting
Remaining
Unreserved
Public
Lands
to
the
States.
Born
in
Roanoke,
Va.
in
1883,
Thomas
Maddock
first
came
to
Arizona
in
1898
from
Newcastle,
Pa.
A
Republican
from
Coconino
County,
he
was
elected
to
the
first
Arizona
Legislature
and
later
served
as
Secretary
and
State
Chairman
of
the
Arizona
Republican
Party.
He
served
as
Arizona
State
Highway
Engineer
from
1917-­‐1922,
and
was
a
member
of
the
Colorado
River
Commission
from
1923
to
1928.