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Show 137 A United Front When Congress reconvened in 1963, the Utah delegation had t\\'O new House members, Sherman P. Lloyd and Laurence J. Burton, both Republicans whose campaigns supported small multiple-use parks. Senator Moss, who was not up for reelection, took over the chairmanship of the Public Lands subcommittee, where his Canyonlands bill had been debated the previous year. Moss made revisions to his park bill before reintroducing it on January 14, 1963. The amended bill whittled the park to 258,000 acres and allowed grazing-pcnnit holders to retain those rights through their lifetimes, or twenty-five years if transferred to others. It also assured that existing oil, gas, and mineral claims could be worked indefinitely, but prospecting would be phased out over twenty-five years. In April, Governor Clyde invited Utah's congressional delegation to his house to discuss the future of the Canyonlands. The political attacks that embroiled the election had subsided, and with the new Moss bill shrinking the proposed park, Clyde saw an opportunity to show bipartisan support. After the meeting, The Salt Lake Tribune reported: "With Gov. George D. Clyde acting as matchmaker, Utah's congressional delegation was wedded Saturday to a united approach for the creation of a Canyonlands National Park in southeastern Utah.',.iis The article quoted Senator Moss: "We are down to the point where we are likely to lose a great deal of our national support if we reduce the size of the park any morc.',4 19 The Republicans agreed to support the Moss bill ifhc made several amendments before hearings at the end of the month. m Will Fehr, "Utah Lawmakers UniLc on Canyonlands Pion," Salt lake Tribune, April 7, 1963, Bl. ~ 1' Ibid. |
