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High Dam Sponsors Said To Have
Way To Get Bill From Committee
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Sponsors of the
high Hells Canyon dam bill re
portedly have found a way to
ipring this legislation out of the
House and Senate committees
JSTVi where it has
t
been lying
idle for
months.
Blocked by a
solid Republi
can lineup of
votes against
the bill plus
opposition
from a few
Southern De
mocrats, the Democratic spon
sor! of Hells Canyon have ob
tained nothing more to date
A. RobL Smith
than favorable reports from the
House and Senate subcommit
tees on reclamation.
One vote could decide the is
sue if it is brought to a head in
either committee, and because
that voting margin has not been
apparent up to now the Demo
crats have not called for com
mittee votes on the bill.
Now the project's sponsors
think they have found the Achil
les heel of the GOP forces who
have stood behind :;the Eisen
hower administration in oppos
ing the high dam in the Snake
river where Idaho Power Co.
has been licensed to build three
smaller projects.
This appears to be the situat
ion: Colorado members of Congress
are pushing to gain approval of
the Frying Pan reclamation pro
ject on the Arkansas river of
southeastern Colorado. Inasmuch
as this measure failed to gain en
ough votes to be brought up for
debate in the House in the Re
publican 83rd Congress, it is
still considered touch and go.
In Chenoweth District
The project lies .in the con
gressional district of Rep. J. Ed
gar Chenoweth (R-Cal.), who is a
member of the House Interior
Committee in which both the
Frying Pan and the Hells Can
yon bills are now lodged.
Chenoweth has opposed Hells
Canyon in the past. Backers of
that bill are now making it clear
to him that the chances of his
getting committee approval of
his Frying Pan bill depend on
whether he may be willing to
look the other way when Hells
Canyon comes up for a vote. .
Since the committee is control
led by the Democrats, they can
call the tune for all practical
purposes on when the votes
should be taken if at all on
the two bills.
By the same token, something
of the same maneuver may be
in the works in the Senate In
terior Committee, ;which includes
Sen. Eugene D. Millikin (R-Colo.)
among its members. Millikin has
indicated he would vote against
the! Hells Canyon-bill if it came
to a vote.
Success Problematical
The prospect of this back
scratching manuever being suc
cessful in coming weeks is prob
elmatical, in the view of Hells
Canyon sponsors. It might spring
the bill onto the House or Senate
floor but beyond that the
outlook for favorable action on
this controversial bill is general
ly regarded as poor.
Even if passed by both houses,
it would doubtless run into a
presidential veto from President
Eisenhower. And there would
probably not . be enough votes
to muster a two-thirds margin
needed to override a veto.
But Democrats think this
would at least give them a clear
cut showing that the Democratic
Congress' was willing, if notable,
tb''substtute the high: dam for
Jhe three private utility pro
jects. Going into a national election
that is to be pitched in major re
spects on the different philoso
phies of development of natural
resources, this would divide
the Republicans from the
Democrats on the long-standing
dispute over Hells Canyon.
But it wouldn't be likely to
change the picture in the mid
dle Snake River, where Idaho
Power is pushing forward with
Sunday, April 29. 1956
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Japanese Ambassador
To Visit in Portland
Portland' ttJ.R) First Port
land visit of the new Japanese
ambassador to the United States
has been scheduled for May 8
and 9 and a series of special
events has been arranged by the
Japan Society of Oregon and the
Japanese Ancestoral Society to
honor Masayuki Tani.
The new ambassador is a for
mer minister of foreign affairs in
the Japanese government. While
in Oregon he will visit Gresham,
Multnomah Falls. Bonneville
dam and Hood Rivr.
A national speed paving record
was set with the laying of 393
feet of asphalt in a 24-foot wide
pavement in 24 minutes, 35 seconds.
construction that is unlikely now
to be stopped.
Hitchcock Asks More
Aggressive Campaign
Eugene U.R) Phil Hitch
cock today called on Oregon Re
publicans to adopt a more ag
gressive campaing program. The
candiated for the Republican
senatorial nomination said such
a program was essential to a
GOP victory.
The 51-year-old former state
senator told Lane county Re
publican women here at noon
that "we need candidates who
will remain loyal to Republican
party principles and who can at
tract voters away from the opposition."
Dr. Rutter Gives
Report at Meeting
. "The Care of the Asthmatic,"
was title of a paper given by
Dr. P. H. Rutter at a meeting of
Southern Oregon Osteopathic as
sociation held at the Rutter
home in Phoenix, April 26.
Dr. J. S. Heatherington, presi
dent, appointed Dr. A. A. Griffin
chairman of a public relations
committee. Next regular meet
ing will be May 24.
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