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Show Page 4 Friday, November 21, 1958 THE UTAH STATESMAN Ike Heads for Trouble Big Suprise? r us, During 86th Congress President Dwight D. Eisenhower will renew and amplify his proposals for checking the growth of federal grants-in-ai- d to state and local governments, while Congress will ignore the proposals, probably marching in the opposite direction. This was the forecast released this week in The Congressional Quarterly in their predictions concerning the 86th Congress. Congress convenes seven weeks from now. The President's concern over the trend toward more and larger grant programs was voiced repeatedly in 1958, both in his budget recommendations and in his reactions to legislation approved by the Congress. Faced with a deficit of 12 billion dollars this year and several billion next year, he can show no less concern in 1959. Congress will reflect the results of the Nov. 4 election. Not only did Democrats win majority in the House and Senate but they extended their control of state governments. In January, Democrats will occupy the governors mansion and control both houses of state legislatures in 22 states. Republicans have control in only four states. 2-t- Democrats will be powerfully reinforced at the state level in their favoring of grants-in-aid. Federal grants to state and local governments for such programs as PATRONIZE . New York political experts seemed to agree last week that and hospital contsruction, Nelson Rokefeller could be in for highway public assistance, urban renewal, a big surprise when he meets with and unemployment compensation-clim- bed President Eisenhowers committee from 2.8 billion dollars in on government organization this fiscal 1953 to 4.1 billion in fiscal week. 1957. The total this year is exIt is believed that Rockefeller pected to approach 6 billion dollars. will discover that he is more deepLast January the President, on ly involved in presidential politics the advice of the Joint Federal- - than he has imagined, and that State Action Committee, asked there are powerful men here who Congress to transfer two small are determined to keep him ingrant programs to the states, along volved, regardless of what he says with a portion of the revenues from or does. the 10 per cent federal excise tax Even prior to his taking office on local telephone service. in Albany, New York, Republicans He also asked the legislators in New York are choosing sides to modify the hospital, public asbetween him and Vice President resistance, school and urban newal programs in a fashion that Richard M. Nixon for the 1960 would have reduced federal outPresidential nomination. Supporters lays. of Rockefeller are not even paying attention to his disclaim of presinot didnt comply, only Congress it liberalized grant formulas for dential aspirations nor are even emergency school aid and public waiting for his consent assistance, added 400 million dolThey are just going ahead planlars to the highway program, and ning their strategy in those after-dinnlaunched a new drawing room talks Rockeprogram with about 500 million feller knows so well. dollars for grants. His ascent into national politics These two bills are almost certain to be repassed in 1959 in a form has been sudden and he is apparmore generous than desired by the ently working on the assumption President. In similar fashion. Con- that the talk will die down if he does not encourage it gress may be expected to approve an omnibus housing bill no less Rockefeller was invited to New costly than the one that, for the York for a private meeting with lack of six votes, failed to pass some newspaper reporters and govthe House in August. ernment officials next month. He to do - so and gave an declined Demands for federal grants and loans for school construction are interesting reason. If he accepted, assured of sympathetic attention le said, speculation would increase that he was interested in the presifrom most of the Democrats in the 86th Congress, An dency. expanded program of It has happened to New York federal loans to cities for such governors before, when a new man public facilities as waterworks, streets and playgrounds may win substantial support if interest rates continue to rise. er non-Southe- OUR ADVERTISERS the race against Sen. Robert A. Taft in the election of 1952. Whether Rockefeller likes it or not, this is what is being planned for him in 1960, and nobody is more aware of this than Vice President Nixon, who is now lying down and saying nothing about politics in public. With the Democratic race wide open, and opposition to Nixon widely prevalent in the Republican spectacular Party, Rockefellers victory in the face of the Democratic tide has pushed him into situations which he did not foresee and probably does not like. . That, however, is the way with American politics. ' suddenly appeared at the moment of opportunity. The surprising thing is that it has happened this time so fast Powerful political currents have started moving below the surface, and as usual, they are indifferent to the desires of the men who are swept along by their force. .What he apparently does not yet realize is that this thing is rapidly moving from the field of speculation into the realm of practical political strategy. His backers here, for example, are already talking about running a slate of Rockefeller delegates in the New Hampshire primary election of 1960. This, of course, is precisely the technique used to draft Mr. Eisenhower into iua nitiiiiif&iivfti&o o niitRi$ nin Rm!& t)u;A tyGttfi rtiniifcdUO) itlMKfe rn low-intere- st Four - County Proposal Lacks 'Blood and Guts A bill which would create a super planning commission, serving Weber, Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties, was endorsed Tuesday by the local government advisory committee of the Utah Legislative Council. The bill won nearly unanimous if unenthusiastic support Rep. G. Douglas Taylor (R-Sa- lt Lake), a committee member dubbed it a vegetable, without any blood or guts. The commission would be composed of representatives fronj the four Wasatch-fron- t counties. . It could recommend plans, and plannings activities, affecting the area. 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