Show r IL 11 SS SMOOT MO 1 W WORKS WORKS' K IT I T TO ENLARGE e Senator Also Plans to Give I Needed Protection to toI Oil Seekers I A bill for tor increasing the size of or ZIon National park in Utah to include Bryce Bryco canyon and a new bill to grant relief to applicants for tor oil 01 prospecting permits are among the important things to be taken up by Senator Reed Smoot In the tho forthcoming congress These with a number of oC other matters matters matters mat mat- particularly significant to Utah I are on Senator Smoots Smoot's program according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to J. J H II Rayburn secretary of 0 tho Salt Lake chamber of ot commerce who has just been in n conference with Senator Smoot at Washington Portions of oC the proposed emergency tariff measure which have particular I interest to the West Vest especially the tariff tariff tar tar- iff on wool are being drafted by SenI Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Smoot who now entertains an es especially es- es I commanding position with the I new administration and who will wilt be one of the big figures of oC the tho new conI congress con- con Kress gress as viewed in Washington Mr I I Rayburn says TO STOP WASTE I Smoot is also carrying out his proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed program to cut down the lar largo e earmy army of ot government in Washington for tor the saving of oC money and the expedition of ot government busi busi- ness As n a member of oC the committee dealing dt with this problem the force torce was reduced by bv on March 1 and by July 1 the force will wilt be further cut down by 90 effecting a saving of ot annually There were government em em- in Washington as a holdover holdo from war activities most of or whom have I little tittle to do but get in the way of oC each other according to past statements by bv byI Senator a Smoot and the elimination t of I mao reen this 1 waste S and I inefficiency was one of the first tasks he set himself under the new administration OIL PERMITS In regard to applications for tor oil prospecting prospecting pros pros- permits permits- It Is known that there are nearly applications on file tile In Inthe Inthe inthe the Salt Lake land office Involving more than acres upon which only two or three hundred permits have been granted Under the ruling I of ot the secretary of ot the interior practically practically all nil of or these applications will lapse if IC oil Is discovered under the drilling now in progress particularly pl those in the oil structure where oil Is found This is manifestly unfair un to those who have paid their filing flUng fees tees especially since the land department has been so smothered in business that applications have ha been on file Ite for tor months that have not been passed I upon In hundreds of ot Instances comI com- com I I panics and individuals who have e been willing to start drilling have ha been held up because they could not get their permits The Smoot bill alms aims to remedy this situation by b holding all applications in force torce until permits can be granted and andI until the applicant be given a chance to decide whether he wants to drill 1 or I not Irrespective of oC whether oil Is found in his structure There seems little doubt that this bill will go through I Mr Ir Rayburn said |