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Las Vegas - March 10, 194? w 03 fir# It* S* Bennetti C oo - Mr# Frank String Hr* 9. lu Cor/) Referring to iay lotto? Karsh 0 fipm pro-* poaod ntaondfciont to fee %vada enter meter law, Imi# fled os Senate Bill 931 Hr. Gory and X spout the lotto? port of lost woek at tbs State legislature in Carson City assisting Mr. f*. &• Harks, partiailnsly with reference to tMo bill. % learned, ?t*SP®day evening, that tbs Mil would probably ootio ‘out of oeraaitto© for tot© In the Sonata the mwhikm of March 14th and wo, of course, prosaist when that ooatrecl* She 1 bor ©yganisatl om hod oewral roprooors- tatlvcs aoilvo around fees lobby, including ©^Senator Jape© Farndalo and Conductor wlilim Or&wscj, both of he© Vegas* X talked with both of fern and learned that they ware- not ot&y bitterly opposed to fe© bill, but, in fact, had orrntod fee inprosMon feat If the Mil passed *all the lawns in Lao V®$bs would dx*r up for latft of water** I explalnod that under the m: 11 fe© %hii© Sseeii*® Com- mission alone bad authority to grant pcraioslon to install fee meters and then only ixi irmvJUkiai oases and after £ Sbllo hearing hod boon hold* fhmdalo then said he would bo to so© a meter installed on Ms nsi#sbQr*s house where fe© water ms running most of the time# vfam' the bill cm© up in the Senate Friday morn­ing, Semtor Ralph Jattin of Churchill County spoke against it on the grounds that fee utilities in Reno and has Vegas intended to blanket thee© cities with aotore. senators Robes* of Clafe County and hotmie of Washoe, co-sponsors of fee bill, then ©splaincd its correct parpen©, W fee measure woo put to wots* Confiming telepg and phone advice, the result was fifteen ayes* one no aid one absent, J*abttn alone voting against fee Mil# Senate Rill 93 was thou aent to the Assembly for consideration# %. Cory and X endeavored to locate Assemblyman Jassos *%3Xorrt hyan* fee ®&$©rii^r leader of the Msia%s Thursday evening, mm our contact® wife fee five Aa«KS3biyaen from Clark County indicated sos© appeal** tion to fee bill* This apparently s© due to miisinderstisnd* lag of the bill created by opposing lobbyists. ' In fact, fee Impression had boon created feat bofe the Hablio fbxhpiee- CoanienXon and State Engineer were ? opposed to it* To cor­rect this impression, fee state JSngimeer cent Ms Assistant, fir* Shonberger, to- testily at Senate CoamAttoe hearing, and —X«* i