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Show PowerE lispuf e In Reclamation May Hold Up Projects Marstiall Makes a Point X. t ( Br ROSEMARIE MULLANET ,l7nlted rrM Staff Correspondent v WASHINGTON, April 4 4UP Nearly three weeks' testimony on proposed change in reclamation law added up to a grade A dilemma dilem-ma today for members of a house public lands subcommittee. ' Judging strictly ' what op posing witnesses underlined as their main points, the members can't win. Everyone agreed that more reclamation was what the west needed. Supporters of the measure said .its enactment would break down some of the notable reluctance of congress to lay more cash on the line for the power and water projects. Opponents, with Interior Secretary Sec-retary J. A.. Krug as anchor man, gave testimony which clearly posed this question: What good will it do to pass a law which will result in more 'money for projects if the same law makes many of them impossible impos-sible to start? Both sides say the measure will affect existing operating projects only slightly, , if at all. But both sides question the validity of the main points of their opponents. Interior department witnesses take a "show me" attitude about any measure before the subcommittee subcom-mittee breaking down congres sional resistance to bigger ap- M . A , A prupnaitons lor iasier reclamation reclama-tion development. The opposition, led by the national reclamation -association, asked why more pro jects would be. infeasible if the law were passed. WASHINGTON. April 4 (U.R ! The proposed law would force, Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug 11 A a a a ..I L-: l- " , uriM.tuieuv w """.bc j said today that Tension between their respective countries is not reflected in this photo of Secretary of State Marshall Mar-shall and Russian Foreign Minister Molotov as they chat amiably during recent reception tor Big Four delegates at Moscow's Aero Club. Congress Takes Off for Annual Egg Rollings tDJULT HrrtHTrt Friday, April 4, 1947 By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 4 (U.R) Our lawmakers take v off ' today for their egg t (not log) rollings, and it is my hope that each one finds a chocolate rabbit in his Easter basket. . -. That will be a little enough reward: re-ward: A small soothingtior the throats which have spouted speechs enough since Jan. 3 to fill 3,021 pages of the congressional congres-sional record. This figure becomes even more impressive when broken brok-en down. The 435 members of the house covered 1,409 pages with the evidence of their oratory, a respectable re-spectable total, but the 95 silver-tongued silver-tongued senators filled 1,612 pages with words, mostly long. Had the man, Bilbo, been on the job the result would have been mure so. but I couldn't find the statistics on how awful. The lawgivers also gave some laws, to wit: 30. including the one allowing a fellow to tear up his draft card. In its first three months of labor the senate actual ly adopted 106 measures; the house 164. The trouble was that few of these bills jibed, one with 'the other. The sulphurous debate which resulted in conference between be-tween the two houses was enough to make you wish somebody'd open a window. Between Jan. 3 and March 31 the senate was in session 43 days, or about half the time, while the house labored an extra four days, but do not jump at conclusions, because these figures lie. The house's working day averaged three and a half hours, while the senate's average session was four 1 hours and 40 minutes. markable figure despite the fact! each other and voted on things that they had to shut their mouths for a total of 202 hours and 11 82 times while quorum calls 'minutes, while the representatives brought upstairs those who were 'only stayed on the job 163 hours dallying over their lunches. 'and 34 minutes. By their deeds as well as by Another busy man during the the senate gave most of them Its okay. . , . Mr. Truman also-found, himself running short of .postmasters because be-cause of deaths, retirements; and fellows going into the-tire busi ness. V5o he sent tw sent a nsx of- 30.' 0ntlmm he wanted to hire as postmasters. Nothing hap-i Memorial Highway commit. pened. . The president later withdrew six of their names. That left him with 633 would-be postmasters. Still nothitig happened. My man tells, me it ain't going to happen. None of the 633 beats his wife except when she needs it. None is. a jailbird, dead-beat, or ex- vntna4 Tti umta a4mlt this. Its objection -to the unfortunate right to read other peopta postal 633 is that they're Democrats. Let (cards. And a happy Eastertide to em change their political spots, jail, I say, with plenty of jelly the senate says, if they want the beans. Larger Tract For Monument Sought SALT LAKE CITY, April 4 U.R) The Mormon Pioneer Trail was seeking today to enlarge the present site of the This is the Place monument from 50 acres to 125 acres. . Committee members explain that homes or buildings constructed con-structed outside the present limits would block the view of the monument and spoil its beauty. tnelr words our congressmen produced statistics. They introduced intro-duced 4,481 would-be laws, one of which would make it illegal in the District of Columbia to use a wooden spoon at an ice cream parlor more than once. Most of these laws. I regret to report, will get the old heave-ho. The waste first 90 days of the 80th congress was President Truman, who sent Uip to the capitol 14,659 nomina tions of folks, including David Lilienthal, for jobs on the federal! payroll. More than 12.000 of these were soldiers and sailors the president wanted to promote from colonels Krug Opposed To i Power Rate Hike More Snow at Aspen Grove of paper probably will be awful, to generals and such like that; Potted EASTER LI LUES 89c a bloom shop -rn n I I" kl A f AND THE I I"!1 l I T I WMI SAVE to bring back interest on power jPubIic Pwer any increase in rates would tend investment nlus a return on power i to reduce the value of power as capital plus a return on irrigation ! "one of the greatest resource, capital. This would difrer from j assets of the w est, including its present practice in that the de-i value as a helper to irrigation." partment rates now bring backj Krug asked a public lands subtly sub-tly interest on power and a, committee not to approve pending return on power capital. legislation which other witnesses Crux Of the controversy is that have said would raise power rates the department uses the power interest as a return on irrigation capital. It is this two-for-the- price-of-one practice that the house appropriations committee objects to. Krug maintains it is only equitable equit-able that the water users should have the benefit of this revenue on power. The NRA contends power should provide that help phis returning the interest. Reclamation Rec-lamation spokesmen say such re turns would demand a higher public power rate, and thus cut down on their present expanding market for "cheap power." As that market diminishes, Kmg said yesterday, so does the number of projects his department depart-ment can start. The reclamation planners must find, before approving ap-proving a project, that its revenues rev-enues can pay its cost. Power is the big revenue producer on projects. Oil Millionaire Heirs Face Suit LOS ANGELES, April 4 (U.R) Twenty-two heirs of the late Jackson Barnett, Oklahoma oil millionaire, and the department of interior's Indian affairs division divi-sion today faced a $100,000 inheritance in-heritance tax suit filed by the state of California. The action was instigated under a 1943 supreme court judgment that Indian estates are subject to state inheritance taxes although they maybe under guardianship of the department of interior. Barnett's wealth is in custody of the government "pending distribution. and curb western reclamation de velopment. "But if the west is rsquired to charge more for power than is necessary to return all power and irrigation costs to the government," govern-ment," he said, "the resulting sales tax on power "will make many a useful project impossible of development . . ." Bills pending before the subcommittee sub-committee would require power rates to return interest on principal prin-cipal plus some repayment on irrigation expenditures. He labelled "false and dangerous" dan-gerous" the theory that "the west must subsist, as far as congress is concerned, only in subordination subordina-tion to the east and at the tolerance toler-ance or suffrance of the east." Tax Reduction Possible Without Disturbing Budget MIAMI BEACH, Fla., April 4 The snow cover at Aspen Grove on April 1 this year was approximately approxi-mately nine inches deeper than it was a year ago, according to a report by Thomas A. Walker, custodian of the Timpanogos cave national monument. There was 33.76 inches of snow com pared with 24.60 inches in 1946. The elevation is 6.900 feet. The deepest snow was encountered encoun-tered at Timpanogos divide, elevation,. ele-vation,. 8,300 feet, 59 inches, compared with 50.20 inches last; year at this time. Mr. Walker reports that there is 'no snow below the 6.000 foot' elevation, and all slopes with a' southern exposure are bare up to! 8,000 feet. He figures that the early high' water will be below normal, but! the annual runoff will be about! normal or slightly above as the! ground water storage is right at' tnis tune oi the year. The total precipitation meas ured at Timpanogos cave for the; six-month period, Oct. 1 - April i 1 is high, 19.69 inches, compared! with only 11.36 inches last veari and a 10- year mean of 10.05 i inches. March is below par, how ever, with only 1.57 inches, com-; pared with 1.70 last March and 2.02 inches for the 10-year mean.j available for foreign gifts and! loans. He advanced his ideas in' an address prepared for the Uni-: versity of Miami forum on Fed- (U.R) Beardsley Ruml. father of j""3 taxes. the withholding Tax plan, said to-; Ruml said tax rates should be day .that federal taxes could be i set to balance the budget at a greatly reduced without unbal-! national income of $170,000,000.-ancing $170,000,000.-ancing the budget. -000, based on current price levels, But he said it would be bet-Jand warned that too-high rates ter if the reduction were mod-might work against high employ-erate employ-erate and more money made: merit. lAj Li L3 UJ KzJ AIR LINES CARRY MORE FREIGHT LOS ANGELES, April 4 CU.R) Western Air Lines carried nearly near-ly 20 times as much freight during dur-ing February as during the same month last year, air cargo manager man-ager Arthur C. Smith announced today. The line hauled 171,930 pounds this year, 8,820 last, he said. Air express shipments also increased in-creased 50 per cent. UP AND DOWN SCHOLAR GAINESVILLE, Fla. 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