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':JJ."L./ 1 Governors at the Los Angeles Conference of Governors just last week. We drafted that letter in Washington, o. C. We got together behind the scenes with representatives of the various states and my understanding is that the letter was signed. It's a rather broad letter; it doesn't go into any detail but it does express the desire of the seven sovereign states, containing 30 million people and a vast area of the United States, in support of one piece of legislation. And I think that is something that is very significant. 1 I'Ve mentioned a time or two that it's apparent that 1tle may have to go into a com- promise situation with respect to a couple of items in the bill. I'd like to elaborate just a little bit on those two things without going into detail because the details of how the compromise is going to be worked out can't be predicted at this time. The two most potent forces against us in getting this bill passed by the Congress, in their order of importance, and their order of potency in my opinion, are, number one, the opposition from the Pacific Northwest headed by Senator Jackson, the Chairman of the Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee. Senator Jackson, being Chairman of that Committee, has the same life and death hold on legislation on the Senate side that our Congressman Aspinall has on the House side. If he says there will be no hear- ings on that bill, there'll be no hearings on that bill. And that is in spite of the fact that Senator Hayden of Arizona is the dean of the United States Senate, tile senior Senator from Arizona, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, etcetera. Now we have pretty good proof of that because of the situation that we got into, as I explained a few moments ago, where Senator Hayden didn't have the power to get Senator Jackson to schedule the hearings for us. That is something I think you ought to keep very strongly in mind when you watch the events as they happen in the next two or three weeks.