Show HOUSE SE PASSES SHOALS B BILL I Ll Re-I Re Five Labor Farmer-Labor and 17 Republicans Re Re- publicans Swell The Big Majority Majority Ma Ma- Favoring The Bill V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON April 25 The 25 The administrations administration's mighty program I II for developing the Tennessee river j basin today was made ready for early senate consideration by an I overpowering house majority The count was to 91 on passage passage pas pas- pas pas-I sage of the Hill version of the I presidents president's Muscle Shoals plan Crushed under the majority in which 17 Republicans and all five Laborites Farmer-Laborites joined were 89 Republicans and two Democrats But before the final ballot the house voted to 68 against a motion by Rankin D. D Df Miss to return the Hill bill to he the e military committee with instructions that the Norris draft of the vast Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- project be submitted This measure measure drawn drawn by Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Norris the Nebraska independent inde inde- pendent was pendent was the one scheduled for senate consideration Already approved by the agri- agri committee Norris hoped to win for his bill a senate right of way immediately after farm I relief action His plan was to sub sub- n I his own for the house bill which he believes would seriously serious ly interfere with the building of transmission lines because it is hedged about with red tape Swift senate approval was fore fore- cast Half a dozen Norris Muscle Shoals bills have been passed by bythe bythe bythe the senate in recent years The procedure in prospect would throw into conference committees I j I the ta task k of or reconciling the Hill Hilland and Norris bills i iThe The chief point of controversy between n the two measures dealt with the electric pow power r section The Norris bill w would uld authorize the government corporation operating operating operating op op- the shoals plants to coni construct construct con- con i lease or build transmission lines The Hill bill would have the cor- cor first endeavor to enter into contracts with private power companies for the distribution and resale of at Its electricity before a ac acquiring acquiring ac- ac quiring or bu building lines and would further limit power distribution to areas within a mile radius of the generating point |