Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 25 | Husting to Offer New Power Site Measure

TO OFFER NE NEW POWER SITE MEASURE Will Go to Senate Monday Said t to tc Be Most Radical 4 C Bills of ofT Conservation v By United Press W WASHINGTON Feb 26 The The most radical radical conservation measure ever In Introduced in- in In congress will wilt go into the senate Monday onda as the answer of Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- Republicans and Democrats to the pending Shields waterpower bill denounced by Gifford Pinchot Pinch t as a grabbers grabber's measure The Th new bill by Husting of Wisconsin will be put in inas inas inas as a s substitute te Among its provisions are arc Reg Regulation lation of prices to be charged the public Taking over by the government of all plants in thirty years Power government to take takeover takeover takeover over plants for manufacture of nitrates and explosives in time of war I An trust anti clause Early rental of ten cents per horsepower to the government I Other features of the bill are to simi simplify sim- sim i the word wording ng of the clauses by byi i which tile the government is to r recapture capture the plants at the end of of the lease period and to place pOwer of enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment in hi the hands of the secretaries of I war inte interior or and agriculture Shields and Bankhead battled sharply all the afternoon in th the senate with Poindexter Norris Clapp and Walsh and Husting who attacked their ire Our bill is drawn so as to attract capital to develop the tremendous sources ot power now used was the burden of ot the Shields argument Draft unreasonable restrictions and capit capital l will stay away and one of ot the great t resources of the nation will re remain remain re- re main main untouched The bill applies only to dams in navigable navi navi- gable rivers rs