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Show _174 Arizona, and Idaho, l\evada, interpretation-of the endorsenent.J4 committee the statement he for the COnIerence Governors' dorsernent was voted upona that the State are ?ederal the ar e things many accept I em to willing to be en- Lands the anybody in Uta. 'ought that \'lestern any idea I have p2.ying proposi tion--but 2. Governuent, found repeated the at resolution of "Eot because I haven't it would be thin}: there before Dern then had made of Utah v/ill wish to profferec.--for thinl:s just agr-eed with' his of whom all that who because we done the by subscribe to this resolution. ,,35 The belief that paying proposition testimony, his and on statement he was this the proposed cession could the major premise point he minced no of Dern's words. not be a entire Early in asserted. Dern's Don E. Colton attention shortly before the hearings. George E. Dern, Dec. 9, 1931, Uta State Archives, Dern Corresponcence file. to 34C on ",r2IY 4- - neces2.rily r:eQ'1 ceSSlon. supported j'I,' ue rn S that trlese . . . arnp 1 lea t a on , ni s th ., . c i. d no t oppo se d to. th G-overnrs. wee Ior p2lzona Governor George u, eXJple flry the cession proposed in the I:ye-=v21ls bill. J5u.s., Congress, Senate, Cornrri t t.e e on Pub.l i,c Lands G:--2!1tin:::: Eeainin Unreserved Public L2nds to S t2.tes, Eearin-:-:s before the COTrEli ttee on Public Lands and Sprveys, Senate, on S. 17. S. 2272, and S. 4060, 72d Cong., 1st Sess. 1932, 'D. 27. (Hereinafter cited as ::e2rinlrs.) It was Dernts conviction that the resolution of endorsement had been "railroaded" through the Governors' Conference by" u. S. Renresentative \iinter and State Senator Jenkins of \1y-oming. 1-:e admitted he had voted for it with "some misGeorge H. Dern to Don E. Colton, Dec. 1, 1931, givings." Utah State Archives, Dern Correspondence File. and Surveys, - i to |
