Show Bill To Place Restrict ons On Imports Handed To Senate I Utah's Ut hS h'S Democratic I Senator Frank E. E Moss has announced d sponsorship co-sponsorship ot of legislation designed de dc signed to aid the oil and coal Industries by providing mandatory manda tory restrictions on oil all Imports The Senate bill Introduced by Senator Joseph C C. Mahoney D Wyo D-Wyo Wyo provides for the esta establishment nt of import quotas t fin on n crude petroleum and petroleum products Including residual full fuel tUf It is the residual fuel restriction tion that is expected to aid the coal industry Residual fuel I. I It is what is left of petroleum after alter the more volatile gasoline and lubricating oils have been cracked cracked cracked crack ed off oft in the refining process In his statement to the Senate announcing his stand Senator Moss pointed out that imports of residual fuel tuel were supplanting supplant supplant- ing the use of 41 million tons of coal annually The bill blU has been referred to the Senate Committee on InterIor Interior Inter Inter- for and Insular Affairs of which the Utah Democrat is a member After declaring that the protection protection pro pro- of an adequate domestic supply of energy is absolutely essential to national security Senator Moss said Prime MInIster Minister Min Mm- ister inter McMillans McMillan's experience in Moscow indicates a n plunging thermometer in the cold war Pointing out that coat coal producing ing areas all over the nation have been going hill down the Senator declared Unless a way can be found to provide the coal industry a fair share of the nations nation's industrial business we must face the closing of many more mines and of the transportation transportation transportation tation systems dependent upon upon them A mine once closed is difficult often impossible to reopen I do not nut need to de- de detail de tall tail what this would mean in a national n emergency he said sald As part of his remarks Senator Sena Sena- Senator tor Moss Most Inserted Into the C Con Con- n- n Record a newspaper of at a speech of Utah Representative Rep res Frank C C. D Carbon Given before the Utah House of Representatives it analyzed problems of coal pro producing producing pro pro- areas in Utah and the nation |