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Show 238 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER A dispatch to the Salt Lake City Deseret News from its Washintgon correspondent said: 297 "Backers of the river bill and Echo Park were not dismayed by the Thursday vote [of the House com- mittee]. It has long been a part of the Upper Basin states' strategy to delete the Echo Park Dam in the House in the hope that it will be restored by a joint House-Senate conference committee. Otherwise, House leaders said it would be impossible to get the project bill through the Rules Committee and past the House." Aspinall made no such admission. He blue-penciled Echo Park Dam and plodded steadily toward his goal. On July 8, 1955, he reached it. The House Interior Committee voted 20 to 6 in favor of the crsp bill. Whereas it had slid through the Senate committee in approximately a week, it had taken the House committee seventy-six days to get it out. The House Committee Vote For: Aspinall, Pfost, Powell, Edmondson, Metcalf, Christopher, Sisk, Udall, Diggs, Rutherford, Green, Miller, Wharton, Berry, Dawson, Young, Rhodes, Budge, Chenoweth, Westland. Against: Haley, Shuford, Pillion, Utt, Rogers, Saylor. Hosmer protested the proceedings and refused to vote. O'Brien was absent. Engle did not vote. One majority and three minority reports were at- tached to the bill as it went on its way to the Rules Committee.298 "Atomic power for cooking hamburgers is now being sold," reported the Wall Street Journal.2®® "Yet, to pay out, the Upper Colorado River Project would have to sell old-fashioned hydro-electric power at high cost for |