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Show SMOOT WILL OPPOSE FURTHER WITHDRAWALS Monday, Senator Smoot declared that he would oppose -any further withdrawals for the park or forest purposes. His position is that," with the stoekgrowers of the state facing the most serious financial situation in their history, the government should not continue to withdraw grazing areas. ' Senator King has likewise protested protest-ed against the encroachments of the government on the public lands and in a recent letter to Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur pointed out specific instances in-stances of stockmen being driven out of business by the withdrawal of lands. The Utah-Arizona commission report, re-port, prepared by W. W. Seegmiller for Utah and. Thomas Maddox for Arizona, recommended positively against the further extension of federal fed-eral withdrawals in the states. Senator King is also opposed to any further withdrawals, and is in full accord ac-cord with Senator Smoot in the protests pro-tests presented to interior officials. |