Show Moss Blasts Administration f for r Uranium Procurement Policies La Las Vegas Serf Sen Frank E. E Moss Utah D-Utah this week condemned condemned con conk the Republican administrations administration's admInistration administration scheme of a year peat ego to gut uranium mining by changing the ground rules rotes and regulations relating to depletion depletion tion ion allowances He Ile told representatives to the I three-day three 1960 Mining Show of the he American Mining Congress here that the Republican platform platform plat plat- form Corm promises to preserve the domestic mining Industry while that of the Democrats promises to strengthen It It After nil all a a mummy Is preserved preserved pre pre- served but a mummy is also atso without life and serves no useful useful use use- ful purpose he declared and added We Democrats are arc builders I Inot not embalmers The sick and disheartening I Ii i condition of the nations nation's mInIng mining min mink ing industry didn't develop through normal economic forces forc forc- es and operation of natural law laws Moss said but was hel helped ed along by the Republican adminIstrations adminIstration's adminIstrations adminIstration's administrations administration's admin admin- Indifference and was wag pushed along at times limes by heartless heartless heartless heart- heart less Republican acts Lauding his party's program I and platform for mining Sen I Moss emphasized that the De De- De- De Congress had already enacted legislation to greatly expand coal research and that President Eisenhower benhower had vetoed Vetoed vetoed ve Ve- toed the broader measure passed passed pass pas ed cd the year ear before He tIe asserted that the administration adr administration had blocked programs for tor a wide list of or minerals with Ith I Ii i the lethal weapon labeled ire re Veto and had tried tried I to sell stockpiled copper Iti a It i move that would have wrecked wreck j ed ad price levels I i iThe IThe The Utah Democrat reserved his most detailed discussion for forthe forthe I the ineptness and almost child 1 like treatment afforded the zinc lend industry He lie charged the the- Republican I presidential candidate with jU juggling jug jug- gling statistics In an attempt 1 to Justify or er lain awa i s attitudes Moss said the administration has put off the mining Industry with empty empt promises of ot a I i range long program turned dawn Tariff Commission recommendations recommendations recommendations rec rec- for increased lead and zinc duties Imposing Instead on nn ineffective quota system and vetoed the small I miners lead zinc lead zinc bill blU passed at ati atthe i I the last session I The record Is clear Sen I I Moss declared and no amount of political soft soap no matter matter mat mat- ter how skillfully applied or ot othow how charming channing the ers ty of he who seeks to a apply eppl pt It U Viii blot out the sorry s spectacle of an administration and a party par park ty being actively callous for nearly eight long years toward I lh the plight of Americas America's domestic domestic dom dom- estic mining Industry |