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Show A STACKED COMMITTEE 151 fornia and the California Taxpayers Association.167 And Rep. Clyde Doyle on the same day presented a resolution from the Los Angeles City Council. Senator Bennett of Utah told Congress how much federal money had been spent in the Lower Basin.168 Rep. George P. Miller admonished the House that once the invasion of national parks had been started it would not be long before all parks would be the victims of commercialization.169 In a fiery statement, Rep. Yorty trained his guns on the White House.170 The President, he declared, had listened to some tall fish tales during a vacation in Colo- rado. Mr. Eisenhower "was misled by men influencing the course of this country and responsible for its wel- fare." It could not be said, thundered Yorty, that the men who had advised the President about the project had not known what they were doing. "They knew that the project was nothing more than a political water project," he charged, "and that it could not pay out ever, that there was no market in the area for the power, that it would inflict on the taxpayers an unjusifiable load." Thus the sniping went on while each side waited for the action by the full Senate Interior Committee that would send the crsp to the Senate floor, the field on which the next battle must be fought. That action came just three weeks after Watkins had closed the hearings. In announcing that the full committee had approved the bill, Senator Anderson praised Watkins for his hard work on it. An unbiased observer might have remarked that Watkins had not been overburdened by the task of |
