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t Refusal to Provide Funds for New Dams Reflects Mood Shift By A. ROBERT SMITH I 'Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The refusal of Congress to appropriate funds to start any new hydro electric dams this year in the Pacific Northwest was a reflec tion of the shift in mood within the J House of Rep- 3 j tiiiaiivta between late winter and late summer. During the early months of J1UOU this session, Congress was pre occupied with enacting legis lation that would cure the recession or at least cut into the mounting unemployment rolls and put men to work and public works spending by the government was the most popular means, whether it found expression in building dams, dredging harbors, or in creasing federal funds for highways and housing. In this period, during March, President Eisenhower got on the same bandwagon and asked Congress to re vise upward his original budg et requests for public works projects. Consequently the amount of money requested for John Day dam, for ex ample, was raised from $2 million to S8 million. Effects Subside But by August the grave concern over the effects of the recession had noticeably subsided, and fresh concern over federal spending beyond the national debt ceiling seemed to take its place. The administration, forced to ask for authority to increase the debt ceiling twice, also began fighting hard against heavier appropriations for civilian purposes than the president had budgeted. Eisenhower even vetoed one appropria tion bill because it contained one item he considered un necessary. The Public works bill emerged in the anti-recession period in the House. The Senate got hold of the bill late in this same period and agreed to everything the House had added, then threw in its own new projects, in cluding Green Peter dam on the south Santiam river. Mood Shifts Quickly But by the time that the representatives of both bodies sat down to work out a com promise version, the mood shifted quickly. The House members, more sensitive to the grass roots situation be cause they all face reelection this fall, got their backs up against the many Senate ad ditions and refused for weeks even to talk compromise. Senators, after six meet ings, finally retreated in the last week of the session and gave up much that had been added, including Green Peter dam. This meant that Ore gon's only new project this year was the coastal harbor improvement for Gold Beach. While these conferences were " in progress, the White House was on the' telephone to Republican conferees urg ing them to hold the line on appropriations. The threat of a veto was even raised in some quarters. Jockeying Paid Off In past years, this jockey ing has paid off for the Northwest in terms of four new dams started over the opposition of the administra tion and without the original approval of the House. Funds were put in by the Senate for Ice Harbor, Hills Creek and Cougar dams in 1955, and for John Day dam last year, and then agreed to by the House in conference. Although this type of maneuver failed this year for dams, the Northwest did re ceive a much larger appro priation for a brand new type of project $45 million for starting a plutonium reactor at the Hanford works which could later be converted for power generation. In terms of funds, possible power output and significance for the future use of atomic energy, this new reactor proj ect ' that won approval far outweighs those that fell by the wayside when Congress suddenly tightened the purse strings before adjournment. ml in this terms smartest togs-from Penney 9 t s! 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