Show WATER POWER LAW N LANTO TO BE NEXT TAKEN UP BY CONGRESS Measure Proposes Development Develop Develop- ment meat of Energy on All Kinds of Streams By Andrew J. J Eldred International 11 News Service Staff Cor Cor- respondent WASHINGTON Gr March 2 Water power legislation held UP for tor years b by the thc struggle between conservation er and d corporation forces will willbe willbe be tlc the congress congress congress' ne next t step At the request of or the administration specially cr created cre cr- of or the c house water power committee committe c called d for or h tearing hearing on ott the tho bill bUl prepared prepared pre re par pared under 1 Pr President resident 11 Wilson ducis du- du cis Ion b by Secretaries Baker Houston anti Jane lanc development develop This measure proposes th the ment of or power both on navigable and l ahle streams I JI ILA T TS TO u nl n Il- Il Terms arc are that the private Interests which develop the plants shall hold them under r lease for fifty Clety years At Atthe Atthe Atthe the end of or this time timo tho they are arc to bo be turned over o to the tho government 1 If It wants them at actual cost In a l letter loiter to tho the house today toda the three secretaries asked the Insertion of or ofa ofa a R. par paragraph which will define ac actual actual ac lC- lC cost in a manner which has hns been approved pro b by accounting experts and such euch conservation advocates as Gifford Gilford PInchot Art After r ft l long series of or negotiations the president has obtained support for Cor his bill both from rom the tho Pinchot forces and largo large financial Interests Among ong these are the Duponts who vho I hold patents on extracting nitrates from the air by concentrated electric po C power r. r Duponts' Duponts have asserted their willin willingness to Invest infest at once The The They are It is understood anxious anxious anxious o ous to be assured of or n a nitrate supply for tOr their powder making factories Excess Excess Excess Ex Ex- cess Is s to go fertilizers s GO T TO 10 AID Members Member of the colt congressional r commIssion commission commission com com- mission also have Vc been aS assured lUred that Secretary McAdoo when the war financial financial finan finan- I cial bill Is passed will stand read ready to i lend government o mone money for the development development development devel devel- of water r power Chairman Sims announced first hearIngs hearings hearings hear hear- ings for tor March 28 8 This will be Im ImmediatelY Immediately Im- Im mediately b by final action on the ad administration administration administration ad- ad ministration railroad and war financing finane- finane lag ing bill which the water power powel measure measure meas menS ure tire is held to complement The hearings hearings hear henr- ings will last only five fhe days Speedy action is expected to follow in both houses house Chairman Sims tonight marls mado public the tho letter Jetter on the tho legislation which the three secretaries wrote him After urging urging ing haste and nd th the bill hills bills s Importance it says in hi part BIG lO IH MIND I. The industrial e expansion which has been necessary In order to produce the tho materials and equipment m nt needed in th prosecution roBN ution of or the war hat has placed unprecedented demands upon tho electric electric elec elec- pow power r Industry to such an n e extent tent in 11 fact that the output of or commercial central contral stations has Increased Increase snore more than CO GO per cent since 1914 Thia Thi in increase In- In crease has been greatest In the tho manufacturing manu manu- sections of or th the east cast where water power lo de nt Is la comprehensively sl cl limited and has bee boen chien chiefly i ithe In Inthe Inthe n the form of ot the tile Ht steam aln generated d power While the tho form torm of of tho the bill which which has been presented presente for your our considers lion tion is directly concerned with water wate waterpower pow power r development ohl only an adequate solution of or this tills will have ha a favorable ia and stabilizing effect upon the whole power industry Probably no considerable considerable considerable consid consid- erable increase In new power development development develop develop- ment can call be expected immediately but hut I Is needed in order 1 to put existing water power develop elo developments I meats ments which have been made mado under inadequate law In into a position of or security se security se- se which will will enable them to make extensions lons and to m meet et maturing obligations upon ra or favorable ble terms I Y OF OI Is also alwo ne need d of Ic legislation Inor in or order er to permit a n serve purvey of or our water waterpower 1 power r le resources The rhe various establishments of the f federal J r l government ment which Had lIat ir tt do with T th the ion tion t of or wafer power should be coordinated co co- cO- cO through n a single le agency It U IH In ul urgently recommended that a aj j power commission be he rl a Ill us provided PIo II In the proposed bill billanti anti mf 10 hd given ample authority to un- un ii J this Work stork of oC preliminary prel y In- In estimations Beyond this need of oC power development develop develop- ment hS such as is Is is- the o of or f In ing t the e proportion of water power in order to reduce the thc drain on our coal and petroleum supplies particularly the latter |