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Show 2. of the Congress rather than the Executive Branch of the government. I feel I should also pcdrrt out that the action taken on Monday by President Johnson does not set any pr-ecedeat , Capitol Reef was established as a national monument in the first place by President Franklin D. on August 2, 1937 # and Roo s eve l.t by Proclamation o. expanded by President Dwight D. 2246 Els nhowe r by Proclamation No. 3249 on July Z. 1958. Arches National Monument was established by 1875 on President Herbe r t Hoover by proclamation No. April 12, 1929. and enlarged firet by President Roosevelt by Procla.mation No. 2312 on November 25, 1938, and again by President Eisenhower by Proclamation No. 3360 on July 22, 1960. Nor i& the type of executive actioQ taken by President Johnson on Mondayc new to Utah, Both Zion. and Bryce Natioaal Parks were des tgnabed first as .national monuments by presidential proclamation, and were 18ot6r made national parks by Congress. Bills to change Arches and Capitol Reef Nationa.l Monuments as now ccnstttuted into National Parke were hastily introduced by my senior before previous colleague on Friday. These bills have been Congresses, and are irrelevant to the pxe s.ent situation because they deal with the land area o£ each monument as it existed before the presidential proc:lamaUons ...... a.nd not with it as |
