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Show The Sait Lake Tribune UTAH/WORLD Tuesday, March 26, 1996 A4 Wilderness Bill Dominates Senate Debate @ ness bill try to talk it to death. while Hatch and Bennett try to hold together acoalition of support Thanks to a Republican maneu- ver Monday afternoon, however. the filibuster has an end date. A cloture petition” filed by the majority will cut off debate and force ome action Wednesday, if the GOP canget 60 senators to vote for cloture Neither side wouldpredictthat outcome. But if cloturefails, Republicans can try to invoke it again and again and again. If it succeeds, debate will start on the individual itemsin the parks bill In the meantime, Bradley or oneof his cohorts plans to offer an amendment to strip Utah wil- derness from thelarger bill, said senator's spokesman, newspaper classified ad from the Sierra Club and SUWAseeking activists for summer jobs protect- anotherbill pushing for 5.7 mil- the bill is the White House. Interi- lion acres of wilderness, accused the Utah delegation of distorting the truth by claiming most Utahns cerned citizens for pay,” Hansen Matz said the idea that the In fact, one West Valley City last week he support their position Ofthe 22.000 written comments group was spending millions of dollars was laughable. The budget of the entire SUWA organization in 1994, the most recent year fig- man, accused of using similar check-writing schemes as those of t least we'll have pointed out how bada precedent this sets for the country or Secretary Bruce today as opponents of the wilder- the Hatch’s and Bennett's offices have been bombardedwith phone calls since wilderness “alerts went out last week The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), which supports that vote. | don't know. The last wall of resistance to Continued from A-1 Dan Maffei sued thousandsof dollarsin certi- That's why we're doing them all simultaneously,” Maffei said. “If we lose Whether we win this voteor Babbitt said would recommend that President Clinton veto the entire parks bill rather than let the unpalatable wilderness measure slip through Theveto threat was reiterated Mondayby the Office of Manage- ment and Budgetin a statementof administration policy that also cited another Utah lands bill as objectionable” — the proposed swap of 1,320acres of Forest Ser- vice land at the base of Snowbasin ski resort near Ogden to Sun Valley Co. in returnfor 4,100 acres of private land. The Snowbasin exchange alsois part of the Omnibus ParksBill but has not generated the heat that wilderness has Through it all, charges and countercharges flew among Utah’s political establishment and environmentalists and their congressional allies. tabulated bythe governor's office from the public-hearing process last year, 73 percent favored the 5.7-million-acre bill, said SUWA Executive Director Mike Matz We're trying to clear up the distortions being flung about back there. At the sametime, we'relet- ting senators who may be wavering know thereis a sizable constituency here in Utah who do not support what oursenators are trying to ram down people's throats." checks on a Norwest Bank accountthat doesnotexist, the bank Ads such as this one ran to get states have been arrested and people to act as if they were con- charged with trying to paytaxes with worthless checks bearing Schweitzer’s signature $300 a week has said. Tax protesters in several said ures are available, was $676,000. he said the Montana Freemen, wasin 3rd District Court on Mondayseeking dismissal of charges. But Judge Tyrone Medleyre- fused Brigham Parley Evans’ re- Steve Baker The Salt Lake Tribune Freemen: U.S. Arrests 2 in Montana quest. Evans has been bound over on felony charges and is scheduled for trial here May 21 curred after Wheeler Machinery Jordan area early Monday from @ Continued from A-1 ers also face state charges of criminal syndicalism — the advocacyof violence for political aims. itor area roads and highways as the arrests took place. “There's always the possibility that some sympathizers may cometo assist From the other side, the war of wordsalso hasintensified. fied money orders and bankers ing Utah wilderness for $200 to Evans’ case evolved from a dispute over a $9,982 bill he in- fixed his tractor. Schweitzer, Peterson and oth- Col. Craig Reap, head of the Montana Highway Patrol, said the patrol beefed up its force in the the usualsix officers to 15 to mon- them,” he said The 960-acre wheat farm where parently when the two men went Meanwhile. the freemen have to pick uptheir mail. Manyof the freemen, including area farm andearlier at a rural the freemen were holed up was ter to fellow House members. Schweitzer and Peterson, face fel- pointing out that big money inter- onycharges under a state lawfor advocating violence against local house near Roundup, Mont. The county attorney has predicted in congressional testimony that he were growing increasingly impa- Rep. Jim Hansen, the delegation's point man on wilderness. sent a “dear colleague’’-type let- ests are supporting the efforts of “extremists” such as SUWA. 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