Show SEN BENNETT DESCRIBES HOUSE HEARINGS SPECIAL TO EXPRESS by sen son wallace F bennett washington jan 19 all of tu us here her I 1 I 1 expected the iho hearing on echo park to 0 open e with fireworks firework it Z SIT did undersecretary of the interior ralph dudot had scarcely finished his statement which whiz opened the hearing when rep john P saylor rw it pa Ps put him under critical cri fical croci cross examination it wax was the cam same old cold story of easterners catling costing their lot with the parlor conservationists to be bo cloud the real roal issue of the ithe uller dop dependence udencio of the tho wet upon water for arid lands the tra stra legy clo also may MY be to consume ax as much ax as possible of the time dam backen backers 0 so o that dam dw opponents might 4 a better boiler caso before the lh com mr cadov cohered covertt ft and I 1 think airy gy well what ha has appeared 1 i mr all au along alon to be the trong ext factor fadar that prop ments of echo park can bring to bear boyr namely thata that alternate sites lie do not do tho fob job od WU well u echal park economic feasibility of the tho project a depends ads upon the ithe of lap her power par plank and wd A bett I 1 rile i for bach such pla pk sll AUf cou couraw rew of t gun md sad echo jal write as AW TV r not T www 40 by statement tat ement to the house interior and insular affair affairs committee but expect to 10 go on she stand later today or at wa wednesday dries day morning ill spend most of my lime time talking about alternate itei sites and in reminding the corn that utah and colorado were alren lye some definite assurances ancelin in 11 1938 when the dinosaur national monument was enlarged that uch such would not interfere with the development 0 p m n of f water and power i project 0 c b i w which C might be planned in 1 the h f future u t although browns park was the sift it mentioned mention sd in writing tiny there wey were ai as early ax as 1851 1931 those mose who advocated building instead ai at echo park this alt alteration oration of sites would not et t an any precedent howem for jar buunk dams in la any other national park ax as opponents ha bar so 0 o vociferously protested the work load idad on sm ton eugen eugene linuan R n colo cola who is holding up W lh velem flate slat delegation on echo park to is uch such that he could not at ibis timer CAU senate hearIngs harl ng on the bute bills per to lh the project bine since im ran on an ono on of his hl committee ahad I 1 had hoped to help him see hb hk wa way 7 clear to call uch such hearing bea ringi but it does not look aj mi if lahi ito eadi caa I 1 understand sea salm iata only to uia same ara reply I 1 do not want anyone in the slate state to think though that sen son millikin ii Is not interested in the tho pro project jbf its just that as chair man of the senate finance corn com matteo h he Is swamped wit with h other matters relating isling to 10 the tho w wit it cuck ir ch hi ois the handall randall commission report which will be ho a leer key document in n etling setting up our future fud tariff schedules an and d la in tax revision legislation allon which of course courso hill hits dor close to all of us id like to commend those utahna who have traveled so far and in luch such numbers to pro mt sent their car case to the house committee I 1 regret that coo ton flicks in liming timing mako it imps aible for the senate and hou house to f get 91 together 1090 ther on thia this legislation co so early in the easlon be cause im rm afraid thai that it mar way well mean that many of these people who have a real roia stake in water walor problems will not get got so to air aft their views officially there thorp must be bo about 78 73 of them altogether representing an investment of thou thousands of dollan in ia travel mone moneys yand and much more again la in time some how th the alteration alle rallon afa of a atlle scenery bemb ee mB important to tee these MUO people represent men and women arr fry ing lotuso wisely to aate bif thelt crusie crop ito economy W M of aria perhaps mw wn fan 1 thew haf ahr j T |