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Show GREAT FIGHT 1 to open mm Whole Question of Waterpoi li'Jp er Policy to Be Taken t Up in House. DEMAND INVESTIGATIOnI;V Campaign for Safeguardir 1 Country's Great Watejfl rights Is to Be Waged. ' H Washington, .Tan. 1. A fight DicB.;V,v'-.'1 is expected to open up the JsM;' question of waterpower pollcSafl '4:' eluding the federal tiwL prices to consumers anoHH exaction of tolls, will be V .r-i?,"'t;;X: house shortly after the hdH - Representative Raine W ' . ': H backed by comprehensl H . '5, 258 cities of 1000 popula H I H within a radius of 150 m L? new $20,000,000 dam ac.assrB sissippi river between Keok; and Hamilton. 111., will denf .' I Investigation of the effects I I dam upon the section of the B ' I it affects and hold it up agl " in the campaign for safpua H ' country's great water rigbi H pending omnibus dam bill. Representative Adamson ) f " I and Stevens of Minnesota, H an interstate commerce I , are expected to meet with r I the men ol that section a"B within the next few days 1 JH the situation. H Strong Support Expect I Representative Rainey the be?ief today that mapy I would support him in his ca t j He has a resolution pending will urge before the house ni I interstate commerce commis j investigate the dam to de H whether it obstructs the Miss, I river and its- effect on the etl current in HJinofs, lowaj Missouri. He wane jt dPteaB whether the charter of '-be HaW-" and Keokuk Waterpower .rJH should lie revoked. wBether tbH should be removed or chanpedlH no' to interfere with the uppcrW naipition and whether the gl ment should not regulate tbeJH for the power furnished thej and a toll paid to Uncle SaJ resolution sets out represeH made by the company that V would aid navigation and thB mercial and manufacturing inH represented. Today letters hadB received from 150 cities whi'B Rainev said uniformly state f' fl dam had not proved of the benefit to them. lu I |