Carl Hayden: Difference between revisions

With the 1913 start to his first full term, Hayden supported [[Woodrow Wilson]]'s policies by voting for the [[Clayton Anti-Trust Act]], [[Federal Reserve Act]], [[Revenue Act of 1913|Underwood Tariff Act]], and creation of the [[Federal Trade Commission]].<ref>Rice p. 46</ref> He sponsored the [[Grand Canyon National Park Act]], and, in honor of his mother, he introduced a joint resolution calling for [[Women's suffrage in the United States|women's suffrage]].<ref name=Briley2009>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Briley |first=Ron |year=2009 |editor1-last=Dewhirst |editor1-first=Robert E. |editor2-last=Rausch |editor2-first=John David |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the United States Congress |title=Hayden, Carl Trumbull (1877-1972) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51ATA-A5WaQC&pg=PA254 |publisher=Infobase |isbn=978-1438110288 |pages=254–255 |access-date=March 8, 2015}}</ref> In 1914, Hayden secured an extension of repayment times for loans made under the National Reclamation Act of 1902 from ten to twenty years. The extension included greater flexibility in the payment amounts during the early repayment period.<ref name="August 48">August p. 48</ref> An additional change in the way that reclamation projects were funded came in 1922 with passage of Hayden's legislation authorizing revenues from sale of hydroelectric power to be credited to repayment of project debts.<ref name="Rice 90">Rice p. 90</ref> Favoring local control of reclamation projects, in 1917 Hayden wrote legislation transferring financial obligations and operations of the [[Salt River Project]] from the [[Bureau of Reclamation]] to a local government entity. The Bureau transferring control to local government agencies would become the model for future reclamation projects in [[Western United States|The West]].<ref name="August 49">August pp. 49–50</ref> Other early efforts by Hayden included sponsoring the creation of the [[Grand Canyon National Park]] and the 1919 legislation resulting in the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref name="Johnson 154">Johnson p. 154</ref>

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