BOARD00188

• Board Meeting Date: 11/14/1962
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Department as to the likelihood of a success-
ful resolution of the dispute before that body'.
Having read that I think I'd like to put in my
oar as Mr. Moses' assistant to go over to that
vIorld Court. It looks like it's a good oppor-
tunity.

We'll now call for the Acting Director's
report. Mr. Kuiper."

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MR. KUIPER:

"There are two items under the heading
of 'Old Business' that I would like to report
on and then we have some new business that I
think should be taken up today.

The first item is in connection with the
Wilderness Bill. As you all know, a substitute
Wilderness Bill was reported out of the House
Interior and Insular Affairs Committee in the
last Congress. However, it did not receive a
rule and therefore was not debated on the floor.
The primary reason, I think, for this was that
Congressman Aspinall, who is the author of the
bill, insisted upon having a 'closed rule'
which would not permit amendments on the floor.
The minority party report was an open rule
which would permit amendments and as a result
of this struggle back and forth, the bill it-
self never did reach the floor and was never
debated.

I think there is very little doubt that
there will be a new bill introduced in the
next session as this is quite hot and the
opinion is pretty strong in Washington and
other parts of the Nation as to the necessity
for a Wilderness Bill. I also feel that very
probably a bill as passed will have to be some-
what of a compromise between the Senate Bill 1
to which I think everyone in Colorado objected
to very violently and the bill which was auth-
ored by Mr. Aspinall and which has not passed.
It's my feeling that we should get together
wi th Mr. Aspinall between now and the time the
session convenes while he is still out in Colo-
rado and discuss this quite thoroughly with him