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Show OPPOSITION URGED TO DUNN MEASURE SALT LAKE. Mav 2 In a letter sent by Governor Mabey yesterday to the two Utah senators In Wanhir.gton. he asks that they oppose the Dunn bill which would mage material amendments to the federal highway act as recently passed and approved. He argues that the passao of such a I measure would put the federal aid j highway system back six years. The bill has pas-, d tho house. Governor Mabey says In part:: "First There will be a conflict In the definition of 'federal aid roads' leaving it Indefinite whether B road shall be a rural post road or whether It shall be a 7 per cent system road. "econd A limitation by the mile which will prevent the construction, In the poorer states, which are dependent de-pendent largely upon federal aid. of I anything but a cheaper type of road. I such as gravel or dirt surface grading onlv. "The application of the graduated seal,, provision In section 5 will be tho same as In the present bill md will raise the participation of public land states In the same proportion as under the present law except that It Will be based on a limitation of $25.-000 $25.-000 per mile and $20,000 a mile, respectively re-spectively " |