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Show 93 planned to introduce during the session. Abscn1 from the list and from the Deseret News was any mention of Bryce Canyon. 269 When the legislation passed the Scna1c, four months later, The Salt Lake Tribune ran the headline: ';Senate Passes Bill for Utah National Park." The story contained one sentence related to the park: "The senate [sic] today passed Senator Smoot's bill creating the Utah National park [sic], designed to embrace Bryce canyon [sic]."270 The Deseret News did not report the Senate milestone. Once the bill reached the House, news coverage increased. However, unlike the cclcbra1ory tone of news related to Z ion National Park, the Bryce legislation brought controversy. Lawmakers in the House had amended the legislation to stipulate that before the canyon could become a national park, all land inside park boundaries had to be ceded to the federal government. The Deseret News captured the state's dilemma: "Passage of the Smoot bill by the house [sic] Wednesday creating the Utah National Park at Bryce canyon [sic] may be rendered void through the state refusing to relinquish title to the section of land granted Utah under the enabling act, part of which has been sold and the balance leased to the Union Pacifie."271 Local newspapers incorrectly infonned their readers that the state and railroad would not receive compensation for their property. Senator Smoot had included a provision in the bill that allowed the federal government to exchange holdings inside the park for land of similar size and value outside the park. The bill passed with that provision attached. 272 269 Salt Lake 7tibune, '·Utah Senators Highly Placed," December 11, 1923, I: Salt Lake Tribune, "Many Bills Thrown Into the lloppcrs," December 11 , 1923, 3. 270 Sc1/t 271 Lake Trib11ne, "Senate Passes Bill for U1ah National Park," April 3, 1924, 20. Deseret Ne11"S, "Utah May Void Bill Creating Park at Bryce," June 5, 1924, sec. 1, 1. m U.S. Statmes at Large 43 (1924): 593 |
