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Show King Says Bennett Fair Weather Reclamation Friend Rep. David S. King Wednesday Wednes-day said Senator Wallace F. Bennett's Ben-nett's voting record shows he is "a fair-weather friend of reclamation recla-mation and resource development." develop-ment." Mr. King told Democrats of Legislative District 13 assent bled at a rally in Riverside Park: "Senator Bennett talks like a friend of reclamation in Utah, but votes like a foe of reclamation reclama-tion in Washington. The Senator would have us believe he is courting the cause of reclamation, reclama-tion, but when the time comes for him to say 'I do,' he invariably invari-ably says 'I don't'. "Bennett voted against a bill containing ' funds for Utah's Dixie Project, even though he had himself introduced an earlier ear-lier bill authorizing its construction. construc-tion. In 1960, he voted against the bill authorizing 67 new reclamation recla-mation and floor control starts, in spite of the facts that these new starts had been approved by the Army Corps of Engineers and were long overdue. "One of Bennett's most remarkable re-markable anti-reclamation votes was his vote against ratification of the Columbia River Treaty a measure prerequisite to advancing ad-vancing reclamation work in the Northwest. "Senator Bennett was the only member of the United States Senate to vote against this measure in a 90 to 1 vote," he declared. |