Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-26 | Page 7 | Fund for Utah Scaled Down

FUND FOR UTAH SCALED DOWN New Now Basis of Public Works Money Allotment Cuts West's Share Congressman J. J Will Robinson in specIal dispatches from Washington Friday estimated that U Utah's hs h's share inthe in th he the pending public works measure will be including highway construction and other projects rejects The amount Includes various undertakings undertakings undertakings under under- takings outlined by the state projects committee ommittee to Governor Go Henry H. H Blood Hood and which the governor presented pre pre- in Washington during his recent recent reent re- re cent ent visit there Hope that Utah's road share would be je increased approximately by y adoption of the Robinson amendment amendment amend amend- ment merit allocating the money on the regular federal aid basis has rec received ived iveda a setback the dispatches said 1 After adopting the Robinson amendment the house ways and means committee took advantage of he the absence of some members and passed ass d another subjecting the bill to tole the le previous plan that of apportioning apportion- apportion ing ng one fourth of the money on a basis and the remainder r on the he regular basis A vote waS was to be taken Friday on onic ic latter amendment and it was Indicated Indicated in- in Representative Robinson hoped loped to muster enough votes to halt it Allocation of the funds on a one- one fourth population basis would cause western vestern states states to give up part c cf ci their possible share to more ll hea heavily populated populated states I