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Show JANUARY ON CAPITOL HILL 97 Miller declared that dinosaur bones had been taken out of Nebraska by the carload. Wyoming had a large and famous dinosaur quarry, said Rep. Harrison.124 But the conservationists continued to appear. Harrison was fidgety. Dawson was sneering. Aspinall looked annoyed. Other committeemen were plainly bored. Rep. Miller, a doctor of medicine, looked as if he had swallowed one of his own bitter pills. Engle smoked and chewed with vigor. There was, however, a sudden change in the attitudes a moment after C. R. (Pinky) Gutermuth of the Wild- life Management Institute had begun to testify. "Now you gentlemen in the Congress have preserved these (national park) areas for us and their fate is in your hands," said Gutermuth.125 "I want to make it very clear that I am not here defending my position. I think the people who are defending their position are in this committee and . . ." That was as far as Pinky got. With a bang of the gavel Harrison silenced him. Rep. Miller suggested that he be ousted, and Rep. Regan so moved. The motion carried. Not only was Gutermuth escorted out of the room, but his words were expunged from the record. The conservationist parade was resumed, and the last in line was Howard Zahnizer of the Wilderness Society, who announced that he would recite a poem by Robert Southey, one-time poet laureate of England, which was one of the "gems, tours de force, in English literature." Southey, explained Zahnizer, had been asked by his children how the waters came down at Lodore, and he had answered them by composing the poem. While the members of the committee stared into |