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Show WATER POWER TO BE FULLY DEVELOPED j WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. A bill for tho development of federal water pow- ' ers on navigable streams, puhlie lands and national 1'orests, designed to secure extensive developments of those ve- sources tvith due regard to both public interests and interests of the developers, devel-opers, has been drafted by the war, interior in-terior and agricultural departments, it embodies fundamental principles of several sev-eral bills now pending and an effort is made in the bill, now submitted to the president with the sanction of Secretaries Secreta-ries Baker, Lane and Houston, to avoid or euro tho defects in pending legislation. legis-lation. An effort to pet together all around on this bill will be made at tonight's conference and one of the expected results re-sults is a proposition through the rules committee of the honse to have a special spe-cial committee of the house created to take jurisdiction of all -water power legislation. |