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Show WATER POWER BILL SHOULD PASS Washington, April 88. Secretary Lane announced today that the water power leasing bill, which failed in the last congress, would be reintroduced and pressed as an administration measure In the coming congress. The bill Is of tremendous interest to the west In his announcement, Mr. Lane pointed to reports of consolidations of power companies in Colorado, Utah, Idaho Montana and Washington which would place fifty per rent of tho developed water power of the western states tinder single control, as added reasons whv the administration administra-tion bill should be quickly passed to safeguard the public Interest of the preseill and future. |