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Show Marriott: "We're just outnumbered" i i j CXii I -1. - r ! L v-v ' to their Congressman. -Utah will most likely get a third congressman by 1982, after reapportionment re-apportionment in 19B0. Marriott said he hopes southern Utah gets its own congressman, as the vast majority of votes in the 2nd District are still in Salt Lake and Tooele Counties. --The proposed Humphrey-Hawkins bill, designed to increase employment would raise the national budget by 30 billion, Marriott said, i -A 30 percent tax it across the board may be likely in 1978. -The woundfin most likely will not kill the Warner Valley Project in Washington County, but will cost millions in stalling the project, he said. -the most immediate answer to inflation, Marriott claimed, from the legislative angle is to curb government govern-ment spending. A I Tl lsl.lt' MKKTl.Mi. Congressman Dan Marriott, standing, stan-ding, left, listens intently to comments made at Cedar ( 'it y Public Meeting by Dr. John Seymour. Congressman Marriott held series of public meetings throughout southern Utah during the past week. One of the major problems facing a Utah Congressman in Washington, D.C. is being outnumlxTed, according t o Dan Marriott, freshman Republican from the 2nd Congressional District. Another major problem-described by Marriott as a "dilemna" -is determining 'who is telling the truth.' "It is a number-one tough job," Marriott said. "So many decisions are just value judgements as to who is telling the truth. Each expert witness has his own facts, differing from the one before him." One of the major areas where "facts" conflect, Marriott said, is the energy question. Tax bill He described the energy bill as proposed by President Jimmy Carter as a tax bill designed to punish the American citizen lot using energy. He said any viable energy package should provide for more production in order to develop our resources. "If we conserve our hearts out," Marriott said, "we will still need to develop our resources. We need to stimulte production and development. We need to deregulate. We should develop the resources of this great coal state." Marriott said our energy requirements will soon double and conservation alone will not provide for our needs. In the town meeting held in the basement of the Cedar City Public Library, Marriott also addressed himself to local issues, including the subsidence question, which he said was "a problem of serious magnitude." New problem Part of the dilemna in working with the hydrocompaction problem, Marriott said, is there are no programs designed to solve the problem. "Frankly, it is going to be an uphill battle, " he said, "Ix-cause there are no defined benefits available." The problem, although it could be considered con-sidered an Act of Nature, or a natural disaster, has never been considered Ix'fore, he added, it is a new problem. One of Marriott's Washington staff has been assigned full time to work on investigation option for Cedar City homeowners in the affected area. (see related story this issue) The first-term Congressman also addressed himself to upcoming issues facing Washington, and to the domination of the legislative branch by the "Eastern Seaboard States." "Congress works by numbers," he explained. "If you've got the numbers, num-bers, you've got the bill. Most of the eastern states are very liberal w hen it comes to issues like the Organic Act, public lands and balancing the budget. We just haven't got the numbers." Last year's cabin Describing an environmentalist as "someone who built their cabin last year," Marriott said many legislators view Utah as their "private summer playground." Bills are proposed which would designate all national parks "wilderness areas," Marriott said as an example of "environmentalist "en-vironmentalist meddling." On questions concerning the plight of the farm market, Marriott used several sources of "facts" to help explain the complex economic picture of the United States. One hundred percent parity, as espoused by some farm groups, would bring an 18 percent rise in consumer prices, he said, and might not even get to the heart of the problem. Other points Other major points in Marriott's speech included: -The most effective way for the American Indian to present his problems to Congress would be by forming a Task Force, which would correlate information and present it |