Show PLAN TO LEASE VAST WATER POWER SITES Provision of Kill Hill in ill Congress Call CaU for J Loosing Leasing Slug Privileges t on 1 Public and Indian Lands for 50 to O Years ff J President Wilson Nilson la laid d before beCore a a. conference cc of h house u leaders e the draft dratt I o of f a bill designed to establish a a definite detI det- det I re teg la C policy to develop the nations nation's nations water water power horsepower ower of which is estimated by government engineers to be wasted annually The result 0 of the conference was aplan a aplan plan to create a spec special al comm committee of or orthe of the ho house ee e to take over oyer all aU jurisdiction of ot water water at lr pd power ver er problems now dealt with wIth by various various committees s a and d to tCP pass paBS Ul presidents president's I bill 11 p promptly in inthe n a nth the th the h u e and send It to the the- senate 1 wilh the administrations administration's support behind behind be- be be- be hind hind it i j i I J JD I i D l' l I Ole J l O lc Action Expected ted The president sh en told thou conference conference of or his Interest In water power legis- legis 1 y an aud hope that both houses would woula 1 speedily i enact the ne new measure measure dr dri dra n by hb Integer t tt t f br war was wasand and u 1 departments p H He bill v s Designed u to reconcile p divergent vie wh which which h hav F B with v aie 6 s YI tJ gr i iThe The bill biU the p rg- rg g visions oC lW F. F UnIt twice th H Hous u ft f failed through oP-I oP opposition t t n f In inthe the set senate af Participants in n n. the conference ex ox- pressed the view that with unified house support support and with the stamp of ot I the president presidents approval al favorable action in thea the lenow now was waa to be ox ox- t 1 r r I The Tho president d to 10 the cor conferees forces a rk k r d. d by Secretaries Seer Soc See rotaries Lane J ak and Houston which closed w V Sty S Jj I la ement wo belh some 8 such C yogis yogis- legislation legis lation as is s here proposed if if It enacted would mean r y development de of a n considerable portion of ot our water power pov resources with a resultant resultant resul resul- tant taut sa saving caving ing in fuel Cuel and a considerable I I lessening lessoning of ot the present demand on on I our o facilities caused b bythe by bythe fhe the moving of coal and other heavy hea fuels fuels The bill provides ides tor for a commission to be composed of oC the secretaries of war ar interior and agriculture It proposes prot pro pro- t poses to to lease the tho water power privileges privileges leges on public lands Indian lands naton national l forests and in navigable streams streams' for or not exceeding fifty years ears when the project may be taken overby over overby by the tiie i United States States and and be again leased t to to the original lessee or to ano a anew now new no lessee All AU t property owned and held by the he licensee at the expiration Hof of f th the le lease se valuable and serviceable in th the development or distribution of or power t together with Ith any locks or other olber aids aids' td to iia navigation n constructed by Iy the the lessee ma maybe be taken over bythe by bythe the fhe government government ment upon upon the payment of the r fair value n not t to exceed the actual ac cost of the property taken plus such reasonable damages as may maybe be caused by the tho separation of ot the property property rt from valuable property not It i those Those a attending t the th White Whitehouse house Conference were were ere Representatives Ferris Fer Per rs ris fis Oklahoma add arid Raker Le Leu ir root ot and L La LaFollette Follette of or orthe the public lands committee Representatives Sims chairman and Montague Mon t tague Lague guO Each Doremus Hamilton and P Pd Parker of Ciao G Interstate commerce I committee Representative Pou i In and Garret and d Foster of or the ruiea t 1 C mi Represent l letas h 8 er chairman and Haugen en and flan 1 I u com com r i rl v f i I i i. i j 1 t I A 1 |