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Show PUBUC POWER ADVANCES The fight to kill the Morse Bill for federal construction of a huge hydroelectric dam at Hell's Canyon Can-yon on the Snake River has shifted to the House. This followed a Senate vote of 45 to 38 for the bill. A 41 to 51 decision against the bill last year was reversed. Friends of private enterprise say the Issue Is a naked one between favoring private enterprise and socialistic Industry. At the present time a private corporation, the Idaho Power Company, Is constructing a hydroelectric hy-droelectric project under a valid license granted by the Federal Power Commission and upheld by the Supreme Corut. But a group of Senators who forced passage of the federal construction bill want to substl-' stute nationalized hydroelectric power. The Senate vote astonished supporters of the private enter- prise system. For years Congress has Ignored pleas to spend hundreds hun-dreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars to build a fedtral dam at Hells Canyon. The decision of the Senate was a blow to private enterprise and a victory for those favoring socialistic so-cialistic legislation. House action ac-tion will be watched with inter est. |