Show THE STATES rATES AND WATER POWER I IThe The following is the minority re resolution resolution solution offered In tho the conservation convention by Judge Short of FrOM Free Freano no which was voted voled down by tho the bureaucrats who had possession of the works This Thiu convention con recognizes the tho rule rulo that the right to the use of tva Wa Vt tor tar for Irrigation and othor other benefi beneficial cial uses useR Including the development of electrical power must be acquired from the tho states slates and under state slate laws that In all of tho public land state the use of oC water and Its KB products including electric power development I thereby ther Is 18 a public use subject ct to I tho the fixing of oC rates and charges and I the tho control and regulation of or the UJO state slate We therefore recommend re that In Its Ils dealings with the public lands tho federal government shall cooperate with the state to the end cad that water and electric power generated thereby shall be furnished to consumers at atthe tho the lowest reasonable rates rotes under regulation provided by b the state tato That the development of Irrigation Irrigation tion and electrical energy are recognized recognized as aa great conserving c forces and full should exist be between between between tween the nation nallon and nd the tho states slates to the end that tho the USe uso and develop development mont moat of ot these sources of production and development shall be bo encouraged ed the tho cost coat to the thc consumer r de decreased decreased decreased creased and tho the state ho bo enabled to exercise o its functions of control and regulation to tho the best possible ad advantage advantage vantage |