Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-20
Conspiracy to Bottle up South
ern Fields in interest Is Al
legged by Bristol Tennessee,
Man,
HOUSE 10 TAKE UP
ADAMS0N DAM BILL
Policy of Government Toward
Development of Water
Power to Be Leading Bus
mess of Week in Congress-


Washington. July l9.-Charges
made by Benjamin l.. Dulaney OF
p,lgtol. Tenn. that the Pennsylvania
system and its allied lines, have bot
tled up the southern coal fields in the
interest of the coal trust will be IN
vestigated by a special senate com
mittee headed by Senator Bryan,
whose hearings will open tomorrow
Mr. Dulancy will be the first wit
ness and will be followed by F. G..
Wright. a rate expert. who will make
an analysis of coal rates.
The special committee has also ask
ed officials of the various railways
concerned to appear and it is likely
that either the president or general
manager Of the Southern, Seaboard,
Atlantic Coast Line, Chesapeake 4
ohio and other lines touching south
ern coal districts will be heard
10 Discuss Water Power.
The Adamson general dam bill. in
volving the government policy toward
the development of water power and
the Improvement of navigation Is the
big pending business in the house this
week. An effort will be made to-
morrow to secure unanimous consent
for the passage of bill to provide for
temporary development OF OIL lands,
claims to which are in dispute, par
tcularly in California.
The bin would allow the develop
ment OF the land under agreements
to be made by the secretary of the in
terror with the claimants which agree
ments ii Is expected. Will provide Tor
a payment of royalties to the govern
ment. The public lands committee,
before the house meets Will consider
ana probably endorse an amendment
to be framed ty Secretary of the Navy
Daniels designed to protect any righls
the navy may have in oil lands with
drawn from entry and designated as
naval oil reserves.
The lam b,ll will come up Tuesday.
Ii would authorize federal permits FOR
construction of dams or dams and
locks for development of hydraulic
power for service to the communities
along nayigable streams, the permits
To run for fifty years with provision
for government acquisition of the
dams after that period If desirable.
Development of Streams.
The advocates of the bill lay espe-
Cial stress on the argument that II
will prove a great factor in develop
ing streams that are now too shallow
for navigation purposes. There mas
been opposition on the ground that
these permits would tend toward mo-
nopoly of the natural resources Much
Of the opposition however, has been
broken through White House confer
ences.
Wednesday the house will consider
again the bill to extend from ten to
twenty years the period within which
settlers on irrigation projects may re-
pay the government for the costs OF
construction Of irrigation work on the
lands they occupy.
Tomorrow the house naval affairs
committee will again meet to go over
records OF Officers whom the naval
"pluckine board recently retired. The
inquiry was precipitated by the activ-
tiles Of friends of Captain j. H. Glib
hons, Captain Templin \. Potts and
Captain Veeder
Standing by President.
Meanwhile members of congress
who are standing valiantly by the ad-
ministration in the effort to complete
its legislative program despite the APP
preaching campaign although admit
ting they are weary of legislative du-
ties and anxious to get home to their
districts, have resigned themselves TO
the conclusion that there is little hope
for adjournment before fall.
Again this week the chief business
Of the senate will be to press the an
THRUST bills with a hope of getting a
real start on general debate on the
interstate trade commission bill and
to complete the revision of the Clay
ton hill and the Rayburn securities
measure in committees so that they
may be submitted to the senate. The
Clayton bill probably will be ready by
Tuesday and Senator Newlands, chair
man of the interstate commerce com
mittee, hopes to have the securities
bill perfected before the end OF the
week.
AT least six weeks of discussion on
these trust measures is contemplated
IN the senate, although some repub-
lican senators insist that it Will be
much longer than that before all can
be passed There still remains the
probability that the three bills Will be
consolidated into one. If that is done
the legislative task may not be so long
prolonged One thing that promises
to delay the trust program is the dif-
ficuties which have arisen over the
nominations of Thomas d. Jones OF
Chicago and Paul M. Warburg of New
YORK, Is members of the federal re-
serve board. The senate seems still
to be dehdlocked over the confirma-
ton Of Mr.. Jones, administration
champions of the Chicago man still
holding back a vote in an effort tc
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