Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-05-02 | Page 2 | Fight Launched on Power Levy

FICHT LAUNCHED ON POWER LEVY WASHINGTON May 2 UP The UP-The The U-The The electric power industry began before the senate senat finance committee today toay a fight to avoid a 3 per cent tax tx on electricity supplied to commercial and domestic consumers William J. J Hagenah representing the Ed Edison on Electric Light institute Chicago denounced the propos proposed d tax taxa as a vicious and unbearable The per ci 3 per cent f levy w levy was imposed in 1932 on th the consumers of electric power The Te house voted last month to shift shit the levy from consumer to producer It would be impossible Hagenah said for lor the electric industry to absorb absorb absorb ab ab- ab- ab these large tax tx burdens because even if i state commissions were dis disposed disposed di- di dis- dis i posed to allow for their payment by increased rates rat the competitive conditions conditions con con- in the tho business are such that the development of the service will willbe wi be greatly greaty retarded thereby The Edison Electric Light institute is I the successor to the National ElectrIc Electric Electrio Elec Elec- trio Light association recently dis dis- banded The Te N. N E. E L. L A. A figured frequently fre fre- in protracted federal trade tade commission investigations of propaganda propaganda props props- ganda circulated through the writings and speeches of college professors and others with access I 1 I to the te public