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Show Regional Commissions Hampered By Political Maneuvering Special to the T-l Washington Orren Beaty, Jr., the Arizonan who formerly form-erly was the federal cochair-man cochair-man of the Four Corners Commission, said here this week that all regional commissions com-missions are hampered by "partisan political maneu-verings." maneu-verings." All of the six regional fjm-mission fjm-mission co-chairmen are caught cau-ght between the Nixon Republican Re-publican Administration, a Democrat controlled Senate and House, and state governors, gover-nors, of whom a majority are Republicans. The federal co-chairmen's co-chairmen's work is directly with the governors, and if they cannot get along with the governors, they are likely like-ly to see themselves benched, bench-ed, he said. He cited the case of Thomas Tho-mas S. Francis, the federal co-chairman of the Upper Great Lakes Commission and a Democratic Presidential appointee, who was ousted from the office last fall at the request of two Democratic Demo-cratic Senators from the region re-gion because Francis had difficulty working with the three Republican governors in the region. Beaty indicated that the job of the federal co-chairman of the Four Corners Commission which oversees over-sees a region comprising most of the state of New Mexico and large parts cf Colorado, Utah and Arizona is no bed of roses. Not only are three of the four governors gover-nors of these states Republicans, Repub-licans, but the state co-chairman co-chairman is Gov. David F. Cargo, R-N.M., who wants the Senate seat of Sen. Jos eph M. Montoya, D-N.M. Montoya comes up for election el-ection in 1970 and is the leading lea-ding Senate Democrat from the area with an active interest in-terest in the Commission, Beaty indicated |