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Show Solons Revive Hope For Metal Support Concerted action by Utah's Congressional Con-gressional delegation has revived hope of protection for the state's hard-pressed lead-zinc industry, despite adjournment of Congress for the year. When Congress voted down the Simpson Bill (H.R. 5894), which was designed to prevent present metal dumping practices by foreign governments and producers, prospects pros-pects for immediate relief for the industry seemed hopeless. But Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R., Utah) and Representative William A. Dawson, (R., Utah) introduced resolutions before Senate and House committees calling for an investigation investi-gation of the situation by the U. S. Tariff Commission. Both resolutions were approved, which now leaves the way open for the Commission to find sufficient injury to the industry to warrant recommendations to President Eisenhower Ei-senhower for tariff increases and import quotas. This action could be taken by executive order without Congress being in session. Mr. Dawson and Congressman Douglas R. Stringfellow (R., Utah) have led a valiant but losing fight for the Simpson Bill (H. R. 5894) which would have restricted excessive ex-cessive imports through a sliding scale import tax on lead and zinc. They won many friends and gained .much sympathetic understanding in their efforts to protect this vital segment of Utah's economy. Senator Watkins has also vigorously vigor-ously supported moves to obtain protection for lead-zinc. Cecil Fitch, Jr., President of the Utah Mining Association, recently sent telegrams to Congressmen Dawson and Stringfellow, expressing express-ing the sincere appreciation of Utah's metal mining industry for their determined fight on behalf of H. R. 5894, which was killed by the lower House on a 242 to 161 vote. One hundred and five Republicans Re-publicans and fifty-six Democrats voted for the measure while 104 Republicans and 137 Democrats voted against it. Eisenhower administration ad-ministration did not back the bill on the grounds that it might defeat the purpose of a special commission to be established at the President's request to study thoroughly the entire foreign trade problem. |