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Show LAST LEGISLATIVE FIGHT 255 The vote on the original motion, offered by Saylor, followed almost at once. Voting for it were: 361 Aandahl, Baring, Bow, Budge, Crawford, D'Ewart, Engle, Harrison, Jenison, McMul- len, Poulson, Regan, Saylor, Taylor, Wharton and Yorty. Total: sixteen. Voting against it were: Bentsen, Bosone, Dawson, Donovan, Fine, Morris, Redden and Murdock. Total: eight. Reps. Aspinall, Miller and O'Neill voted "present." Thus, for all intents and purposes, the House bills were laid to rest. There would be more activity on the Central Arizona Project in the House Interior Committee before the end of the Eighty-second Congress, but it would have to do with the Senate bill, S. 75. If, after the voting, Murdock had abruptly adjourned, no one would have blamed him. He was obviously a sick man, but he remained in his chair and announced in an unsteady voice that he wished to introduce Gover- nor Howard Pyle of Arizona. The governor had been in the audience during the crucial meeting. He had come there to testify, but the turn of events had prevented him from being called. As Governor Pyle stepped forward, the committee members applauded, but a few moments later ex- pressions of friendliness had turned to resentment and anger. "This," the governor said bluntly,362 "is probably one of the most depressing moments of my life. "We have been treated here this morning to a mag- nificent presentation of what political power can do. . . A delaying action on the part of the great state of Cali- fornia has been the thing which they have aspired to |