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Show STILL FIGHTING DUNN MEASURE Lower Limit on Federal Aid Roads Opposed in West ! I Despite the fact that the Dunn bill, which limits federal aid, has pas I tho house by a big majority the Ogden Og-den chamber of comjiicrce la using every effort to seek the co-operation of the Utah representatives tit Washington Wash-ington and others to defeat this bill, Secretary Jesse S. Richards announced today The bill Is now In the hands of tho conference committee composed compos-ed of representatives of the house and senate I In Utah the hard surfaced roads at this time cost in the neighborhood of $30,000 per mile, the- government palng 71 per cent, or J22.OO0, leaving $v 000 per mile for ihe state and county coun-ty to pay. The ugden chamber of commerce and other chambers In I 'ah, Idaho, Mont, ma and other states In this section are anxious to see the present system continued. In a communication to -the chamber cham-ber of commerce O. W Borden, stato' highway engineer of Nevada, says In! part. Plttman that the Dunn bill passed without amendment which means that section five still contains the objectionable objec-tionable feature of limiting federal participation to $12,500 per mile for the fiscal vear 1922 and $10,000 pei mile thereafter. The bill Is now in conference and the members of this committee are as follows Senators! Townsend of Michigan. Sterling of South Dakota. Moses of Now Hump-1 thlre, Walsh of Massachusetts andi Broussard of Louisiana Congressmen Slemp of Virginia Madden of Illinois and Slsson of Mississippi - v ueuijvf wc ii - ;iii continue! to bring all possible pressure to bear on the members of the COnfern I committee urging that the bill which finally comes from tho conference should leave federal participation un changed or at least considerably higher high-er than the limit placed in the Dunn bill. If we are to accomplish anything any-thing with the conference committee our action must be prompt, however." Secretary Richards stated today that telegrams urging the co-operation of the conference committee had been wired today. He stated also that the I'tah representatives at Washington had been asked again to assist in this work. oo |