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Show Umso CoEiiiiiigea Posses EkEio hwh Mi It was a close "shave," but the Upper Colorado Storage and Development bill was approved last Tuesday by the House Committee Com-mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs by the vote of 13 to 12. The bill includes the controversial controver-sial Echo Park Dam and the Central Utah Project. It was a dramatic and stormy session the committee experienced exper-ienced in getting the bill pushed through to a final approval. Opponents, Op-ponents, used every conceivable trick they had in their bag, while proponents successfully beat their assailants off and were able to eke out the one vote margin. The vote represented a mighty migh-ty victory for the Upper Basin states over not only the conservation conser-vation groups which had bitterly bitter-ly opposed Echo Park Dam, but also California interests who now have clearly shown that they are dead-set against the Upper Colorado development. Next Slop Rules Committee Rep. William A. Dawson (R., Utah), sponsor, of the measure and one of the floor leaders for the. bill in the committee fight, served notice after the victory that he would press for early consideration of the measure by the House Rules Committee. The bill must get the green light from the Rules body before be-fore it can be considered on the House floor. A continuance of the strong opposition encountered in the Irrigation Sub-committee and Interior Committee is expected before the Rules Committee. Upsets Opponents At the opening of Tuesday's committee session, the. opponents oppon-ents were in a confident mood In the audience were some of California's biggest water lobbyists lob-byists to witness the expected licking of the Upper Colorado program. Rep. John P. Saylor (R., Pa.) the darling of the conservationists, conservation-ists, told newsmen he planned to kill the bill by pushing through a motion to recommit it to the Irrigation Sub-committee. Mr. Saylor made the recommittal recom-mittal motion but it was defeated de-feated 13-12 and following the bill was reported out by the same one-vote margin. Mr. Saylor attributed his defeat de-feat to what he described as the "running out" of Rep. Cliff Young (R., Nev.). He also lost the votes of Reps. Clair Engle, California; Lloyd Bentsen, Texas, Tex-as, and James G. Donovan, New York, all of whom had been regarded re-garded as on the doubtful list. On the showdown, nine Republicans Re-publicans and four Democrats voted for passage. Opposing the measure were seven Democrats and five Republicans, Following is the vote: Republicans for passage, Berry, Ber-ry, South Dakota; Budge, Idaho; Dawson, Utah; D'Ewart, Montana; Mon-tana; Harrison, Wyoming; West-land, West-land, Washington; Rhodes, Arizona; Ari-zona; Wharton, New York, and Young, Nevada. Democrats for passage: Aspi-nall, Aspi-nall, Colorado; Bentsen, -Texas; Engle, California, and Mrs. Pfost, Idaho1. Republicans against passage: Saylor, Pennsylvania; Gross, Iowa; Pillion, New York; Bender, Ben-der, Ohio, and Hosmer, California. Califor-nia. Democrats Against Democrats against passage were Regan,-Texas; Yorty, California; Cal-ifornia; Donovan, New York-O'Brien, York-O'Brien, New York; Rogers' Texas; Haley, Florida, and Shu-ford, Shu-ford, North Carolina. |