Show BETTER SEEN FOR WEST U S legislation expected to provide larger highway funds prospects are unus unusually bally good tor for tho the early enactment ot of pending federal legislation legis legisa atlon tion providing larger appropriations tor for west OTEi highway construction st and some ot at tho additional benefits 6 should be realized zOl taij year to lo U bloomf chairman of oc tile tho sta e road commission who returned manday from washington U D 0 7 mr r blood found that eastern opposition to various kinds ot of federal road aid has practically died out and the attitude in the national capital to the three major bills now before congress was all that the west C could elpe expect ct tile the most important at 0 those MODI measures from the standpoint of appropriation I 1 is 13 the dowell bill which increases federal ald aid tor for the fiscal years ending june 30 1931 1932 and 1933 from to a year mr blood said the bill has passed both house and senate but its presentation to tile the president was delayed because bf an amendment attached by the sanate which ros d la in its being thrown lato into conference conte ronce hy by a joint committee increasing limitation of federal aid tho the amendment la Is a provision increasing the limitation ot at federal aid applicable to any mile of 0 rowl road construction st from to the calsing of the limitation according to mr air blood la in generally favored by those engaged in road construction and such opposition as is likely to arise it is hoped will be smoothed smoot heil out so BO that the bill will go to the pres prea adent at on early date mr blood blodi believes bol loves there Is no doubt but that the bill will become law particularly ticul arly in view of hoovers urgent appeal tor for an increase in construction expenditures in 1930 the tha bill would give utah ampro ont abely UG more tor for road building each year than it now no pr enjoys of course mr blood explained it would mean that state and county toad road ap would also have to be increased lie ile pointed out however that there are enough proposed projects on which various counties are willing to go ahead immediately to absorb the additional amount seek to smooth out Colton hilll dill coppo altion mr blood and other western highway official spent most ot of their time in washington la in an effort to smooth out opposition to the second colton oddle bill which would increase the yearly appropriation for forest roads and trails rails during the next three years from to ile he said they were successful in so BO tar far as reaching a general understanding on the bill but that hearing was delayed until february 24 congressman don 13 colton of utah CD coauthor author of at the bill with senator tanker t L oddle oddie of at nevada has requested that the west vest be represented at the hearing mr blood said the other measure in which mr blood was particularly interested is what la called the first colton oddle bill an c enabling act so to speak paving the way tor for an appropriation to construct roads over public domain in the 11 western states entirely at the expense of the federal government it this act la Is passed by congress and signed by the president dent a subsequent measure will be introduced providing a specific appropriation for this purpose mr air blood and other western officials appeared before the house com cittee on roads in support of at this masure the others were J D wood idaho commissioner ot of public works robert W sawyer ot of the oregon highway and Z E Sev lson state highway engineer of wyoming the rho bill was reported out favorably by the committee tribune |