Evening star., 1921-06-08
SENATE VOTESD.C.
100000 TO START
NEW WATER WORKS
Also Provides $500, 900 Addi-
tionaI for Great Falls
Power Project.

iHe senate To-Day adopted the mill
tary affairs committee amendment to
the Army bill providing 5000, 600 to
begin work on an increased water
supply for the District of Columb bia
in accordance with the plan prepared
by Maj. NJ. c. Tyler, L. S. A. Engineer
Corps.
The Senate also adopted an amend
ment offered by Senator Norris of
Nebraska providing an additional
work on the project for a hydro
electric power plant at Great Falls
on the Potomac. river. This project
also was the subject of report by
Maj. Tyler. and had the approval of
the federal waterpower commission.
A point of order. made by Senator
King against the Norris amendment
was not sustained by the Senate and
the amendment was then adopted
When the Senate committee amend
ment providing $780, 900 for increasing
the water supply of the District came
up in the Senate soon after the Army
appropriation bill was taken up Senator
! Norris Immediately offered as an amend
ment to the committee amendment the
proposal that $500, 900 in addition be ap-
propriated for the development of a
hydroelectric plant at Great Falls.
Senator King Objects.
Senator King of Utah questioned
the advisability of adopting the Nor
ris amendment at this time, and
asked if the District of Columbia com
mittee had passed upon the proposed
project. Senator Wadsworth of New
York, chairman of the military af-
fairs committee, suggested that SEN
ator Norris should offer the amend
ment separately and not as an amend
ment to the committee amendment
providing for an increase in the water
supply.
To this Senator Norris replied that
the water power project and the water
and both contained in the report
made by Maj. Tyler and approved by
the federal water power commission.
The Nebraska senator said that the
proposal to develop waterpower at
Great Falls has been before Congress
for the last fifteen years: that the
Senate had adopted an amendment TO
the federal waterpower act last year
providing an appropriation to make
this development. but that finally the
act had carried s25.o0O for investiga-
tion as to the feasibility and adyisa-
bility of this project.
Based on Recommendation.
THAT investigation has been made
and a report recommending the prof.
ect has been submitted to Congress, -
said Senator Norris. My amendment
carries out the recommendation of
the waterpower commission based on
the investigation authorized by Con-
gress. The only objection made to the
power development plan a year ago
was that such an investigation should
be made. on the ground that previous
Investigations were out of date This
investigation has now been made and
has vindicated former investigations.
Senator King repeated his sugges-
tion that the report on the Great
Falls project be referred to the com
mittee on the District of Columbia
for analysis.
The only people who stand in the
way Of this project are the street
railway interests, who do not want
the public to receive cheap electric
power" said Senator Norris.
"1f we are going to develop this
power. let US do it now. 1t will save
100000 tons of coal every winter for
Washington.
"It is a moral sin that within the
shadow of the dome of the Capitol one
of the greatest water power possi-
bilities is being wasted. while we
investigate and investigate"
Norris Asks Delay.
Senator Norris asked that the
amendment be allowed to go over
for further consideration, because he
1Continued on PaRe Coiun1n