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Show Passage Of Colorado River Dili Is Encouraging VOTE ON MEASURE MIGHT COME DURING THURSDAY A report appearing in the Salt Lake Tribune' Wednesday morning offers encouragement for the pas-, sage of the Upper Colorado River Bill that is now being debated in the House of Representatives. Following are, .excerpts from the article in the Tribune: Prospects for House of Representatives Repre-sentatives approval of the' Upper-Colorado Upper-Colorado Storage Program were generally regarded as good Tuesday Tues-day night after the first day of floor debate 'which was highlighted by a decisive' victory on the first test vote for the legislation. The test vote, on adoption or rejection of the recommendation of the rules committee' of floor consideration of the legislation, carried by a lopsided margin of 354 to 26. Thirteen, of the 26 opposition votes came from California and all were by congressmen from the southern part of the state. The other opposition votes were scattered scat-tered with three each from North Carolina and Georgia, -two from Illinois and one apiece from Florida, Flor-ida, Wisconsin, New York, Texas and Indiana. Three Hours Left When the House quit Tuesday there still remained three hours of agreed general debate. In addition, addi-tion, another hour or two may be consumed with amendments. This means that the' final vote is unlikely un-likely before Thursday afternoon, since Wednesday's debate will be (Continued on Back Page) Upper Colorado River . . (Continued rrom Page 1) interrupted by a , joint session of Con'gress to hear President Gron-chi Gron-chi of Italy. The vote on the rule, though not regarded as conclusive, ' at least served to bolster the spirits of proponents of the legislation. Proponents were freely predicting passage of the bill from margins of 10 to 50 votes. Even some of the opponents were' privately saying say-ing that they were licked. |