The Washington times., 1916-03-08
FALLS POWER BILL
LOSES IN CLOSE VOTE
Norris Amendment to Shields
Measure Is Defeated by
80 to 20.
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during a space OF fifteen years time.
Out of that fifteen years he gets the
average year. and then out of the av-
erage year he gives us the power pos
sibilities Of every day In the year.
Always a Minimum of 15,40O H. T..
lin the average year. averaging the
fifteen years, there would always be
developed a minimum horsepower OF
I,iO0 There would be 300 days In the
average year when there would be
z. 5OO-horsepower developed. For 80
days in the average year there would
be $1,000 horsepower For 90 days
there would be a. 700-horsepower.
For 1875 days there would be i6, 80
horsepower. For 1859 days there would
he s.1OO-horsepower. For 12s days
there would DO 9a .5Oo-horscpower. For
10 days there would be 9S,20c-horse-
power. For fifty-cight days there
would he d. i00-horsepower. For thirty
two days there would bo 92,0Oo-horse-
power. For twenty days there would
there would be 81 ,0Oo-horsepower. For
two days there would be 70,6OO-horse-
power. For one day there would be
20. 9o0-horsepower.
Would Not Destroy Falls Beauty.
The particular project recommended
provides for a dam across the Potomac
river at or near the west line Of the Dis
trlct of Columbia to a height, as I re-
member. of 1l6 feet. know that when
this project has been agitated there
have been those who has opposed 1t be-
cause they supposed that the develop
ment of power out there would destroy
the beauty OF the falls.
This particular project does not de-
veloped all OF the power possibilities
but the engineers thought all that was
necessary now and for quite number
of years.
or objection that might come from those
who deemed that the beauty OF the falls
ought to be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. every
body knows that 1t Is quite q beauty
spot and is visited every year by many
thousands OF people-the particular
project that they have outlined does not
interfere with the falls proper. the dam
being nine miles from the falls, Great
ing a lake nine miles long running TO
the foot OF the falls.
The engineers point out in the re-
port that should Congress decide to do
so they could get an additional fall OF
something over thirty feet by utilizing
the falls. either by another dam or by
constructing a small dam across the
falls and conducting the water around
and letting II drop into this lake
through a water wheel.
so that the figures have given and
all the figures given in the report could
be increased In round numbers about a
third II Congress desired to destroy the
falls themselves. Between the foot OF
the falls and the District line there Is
sufficient fall in the river-enough rap
ids in the river-so that by building the
dam as I have stated they could get
the power I have indicated
What Project Provides For.
,.'Now the project-and Il is included
In the amount that IL authorized In the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES for taking the
water out OF this lake. using part OF
the energy that is developed there to
generate electric power for pumping
the water over into a reservoir and
conducting It through several reservoirs
and some tunnels until It gets over
north of the city to the present filter
beds. through which all the water used
IN the city is filtered"
The vote on the amendment was as
follows:
Nays-Bankhead. Beckham. Clarke
(ArkD. du Pont, Hardwick, Hitchcock
Johnson (Me). Kearn, Lea (Tenn.).
rene. Ransdell. Reed, Robinson, sha-
froth. Sheppard, Shields. Simmons,
Smith (Ariz), Smith (Ga), Stone,
Sutherland. Swanson. Thompson, Till
man. Vardaman and Walsh. Total. 30.
feas-Ashurst. Borah, Brandegee
Chamberlain. Clapp, Clark (Wyo.),
Cummins, Curtis, Gore. Hollis, Husting,
Jones. Kenyon. La Toilette, Lane, Lew.
Is. MARITIME. Myers, Newlands, Norris,
Page. Pittman. Poindexter, Smith
tMich:l. Smoot, Sterling. Wadsworth