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Show 61 Park_iss The legislation has "practically passed" Congress, the Tribune reported. The bill then moved before a conference commincc "over a question of the southern boundary, which, [Yard] says, will be senlcd."159 The boundary reference was as far as reporting on debate went. Those who got their information from the press had no idea what the dispute was or what other disagreements had surfaced as the bill moved through Congress. For example, they would not have known about the financial disputes that had surfaced in the House and were deleted by the conference comminee or the conference committee's concession that the national park would continue to receive funding at the national monument level until Congress could make an independent appropriation. 160 Another passage from local news coverage that could be construed to imply political conflict, or at least doubt of full support for the legislation, ran al the end ofa Deseret Evening News article: "If the president docs not sign the bill within the time specified by the constitution [sic], it becomes law automatically."161 llowcvcr, no documentation was found to suggest 1hat Wilson had reservations about creating the national park. A National Park Is Born "Fight for Wonderland Is Won," read The Salt Lake Tribune headline announcing the president had signed the park bill. 162 According to the rest of the press coverage, it could hardly be classified as a tight. Reports did not indicate opposition or debate in m Salt lake Tribune. ·Utah Park to Bring Tourists." November 2, 1919, 9. 119 1bid lf,(I Zion National Park, Utah, House Report 464, 6611, Cong., I" Sess., November l l, 1919. IM Deseret EveninR News, ..Improvements to Be Made for Zion Canyon," October 25, 1919, sec. 2, 10. 162 Salt lake Tribune, "Fight for Wonderland," November 23, 1919. |
