Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-02-20
WOODSTOCK. VIRGINIA.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1925.
U. S. PARK BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE

v. Ne hAn DILL
PASSED BY HOUSED
The House of Representatives Mon
day afternoon passed the Senate bill
providing for an appropriation of $40. :
600 for preliminary survey and COM
mittee report on the proposal to &C
quire land in the Blue Ridge section of
the Valley of Virginia for the Shenan-
doah National Park. and also for SINH
lar parks in the Smoky Mountain dis
trict Of North Carolina and Tennessee
aud one in the Mammoth Cave region
of Kentucky.
The bill was taken from its place on
the unanimous consent calendar of
the House upon motion of Represen-
tative Temple, of Pennsylvania, chair
man of the committee which investi-
gated the Shenandoah National Park
site last year.
He moved that the bill as passed by
the Senate last Thursday be substituted
for the original Temple bill in the
House. and there being no objection
the bill was read and passed.
The measure having passed both the
Senate and House now goes to the
President for signature. There is
every reason to expect the President
win sign the bill. especially as the ap
preparation recently was approved by
the budget bureau and later endorsed
by President Colidge.
JUDGE HARRISON WORKED HARD
Great credit is due Representative
T. w. Harrison. Of the Seventh Vir-
ginia district, in which the park will
be situated, for his work in behalf of
the measure.
Judge Harrison has been working
hard on the project ever since oppo-
sition developed among various state
delegations to Virginia being singled
for an eastern national park.
He succeeded in smoothing out all
differences and bringing the various
elements together in spirit Of har-
mony.
There was much citation among the
Virgins congressional delegation when
the House passed the Temple bill, and
Judge Harrison was warmly congratu-
lated by many friends upon the out
roune of hic offorfs
APPROPRIATION is ASSURED.
As soon as the House had passed the
bill, Representative Madden, OF Hi
nois, chairman of the committee on
appropriations, of which Judge Har-
rison also is a member, went over to
the virginian and personally congratu.
lated him upon passage OF the park
bill, and assured him that the item for
go, coo for the preliminary survey will
be included in the third deficiency ap.
preparation bill now being prepared
by the committee:
This bill is to be presented to the
House early next week. and as it is
made up OF items deemed absolutely
necessary, and which already have
been approved by the budget bureau,
its passage and approval by the Pres.
ident are matters OF routine.
ST feel as il am the happiest man
in Washington" said Judge Harrison
this afternoon when the correspon
dent Of The Star asked how he felt
over the passage of the Temple bill.
Establishment Of the Shenandoah
National Park" he said, will be a
big drawing card for the Valley of
Virginia and, in fact, the entire state.
We of course, appreciate the interest
taken in the project by members of
Congress, and of the favorable pub
licity given our site by the newspapers
here and In other cities of the
country"
Judge Harrison made personal
canvass among members of Congress
during the last two weeks, and al
though he encountered some opposi-
ton, mainly on the grounds of econ
omy, he succeeded in harmonizing all
differences and getting the bill
through.
SURVEY TO BE MADE IN SUMNER.
It is expected the preliminary sur
vey of the Blue Ridge mountain Sec
lion Of Virginia for the Shenandoah |
National Park will be started at an
early date, and that the work viii be
done by government engineers.
There was indications here this az |
ternoon that the work Of surveying
the Shenandoah National Park site in
Virginia will be the first Of the three
10 be taken up by the government en-
yineers,, inasm uch as It was the first
o be recommended by the Temple
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