Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-06-21
OFFER OF FORD
To BUY MUSCLE
SHOALS FLAyED
Eight Republican Members
of the Military Committee
Sign a Report Submitted
to the House.
(By The Associated Press.)

washington, June SV'-I IL "
publican members of the b all
itary committee today 81 . re-
port, submitted to ttsI.S' .se by
Representative Kear& ~ Ohio.
denouncing Henry rs 3 offer to
purchase and lesSH /e govern
ment's propects 80 S /cle Shoals,
Ala. Their act So Increased to
four the numbe - /eports eman-
ating from p9 /mmittee and
marked anotb Ision of opinion
among the Iy-one members
over the qu. Of Muscle Shoals
disposition.
The eight members are Repre-
sentatives Kearns, Ohio; NORM.
Crago and Ransley, pennsylvania;
Crowther, New York; Hill, Mary
land; Parker, New Jersey, anu
rockingham, Massachusetts,.
| None of the signatories to the
new report was willing for congress
to accept the Ford offer, either as
recommended recently by the so
called majority views presented by
Acting Chairman Mckenzie, or bs
Those who endorsed the report writ
ten by Representative Parker, re-
publican, New Jersey, and en-
dorsed by Representative Froth-
lingham, republican, Massachusetts.
both of whom signed the Kearns
document today, was in effeCi
merged with the new report.
The Kearns report stressed the
importance of getting ito the coun-
fry a clear fair and unbiased state
% Go ar ( - conforming tn6
Ford proposal declared that
wicked and paid" propagandists
were scattering propaganda
Throughout the country that, IS
loften void of truth" and attackel
1.-THE Ford offer in a way that lelt
none of its provisions free from
hostile criticism.
At the same time the report as
iserted that the Alabama Power
itompany, which submitted an ofter
to develop the power projects at
Muscle Shoals, had always deait
fairly with the government, ana
was offering S2,500,0O0 for It's IN
,terests in the steam plant at Gorgas
lin accordance with the terms OF
1.-The contract executed with the war
department when the plant was
Ierected.
Cost of Projects.
In another part, the report sum-
married. the cost of the projects
which Mr.. Ford would purchase fer
S5,000,000. A total expenditure OIL
SS5.343.296 was claimed on the
, Waco inquiry, the Gorgas Steam
Iplant and nitrate plants numbers !
land 2, while the amount offered
Twas held to be wholly Inadequate.
Among the other provisions OF
1.-THE Ford offer which were attack
: ed by the report were those pro-
posing a lease of the waterpoWer
project for 100 years, that fixing
1.-THE terms of the amortization plan
! flor repaying the government Tor
building dams two and three, thar
! offering $4,000 annually to the
; government for maintenance ana
, Irepair of dams; that providing Tor
: 1.-THE manufacture of fertilizers dur
ling the 100 year lease and the fall-
ure of the Detroit manufactures TO
agree to pay interest on the Sli-
, 600, 900 already spent on the wilson
dam.
Lengthy Explanations.
! Lengthy explanations of each OF
r these features of the Ford otfer
were contained in the report which
; pointed out the belief that the tax
$ payers Of the country would reVol!
. liz congress accepted the offer ana
voted appropriations totaling $oo,'
100000 to carry out its terms.
7 A tabulation of "the entire cos
, Ito the taxpayers of the United
States of the Muscle Shoals proJec'
8 up to the present time" also was
: presented, showing total of S167,'
l163,296, including $13,320,OO0 fol
!. Interest on new money required a.
dams two and three,
"Some say that Mr.. Ford Is hon
lest" the report declared, land tha'
he has said he wants to make Ter
tilizer and they are willing to take
him at his word, whether it is II
the contract or not. What they saJ
about Mr.. Ford is not endowe
with a perpetual life, although som'
! members of the military affair
committee would give him tn
waterpower leasehold, and when NJ
lis gone and all the men that NJ
may have surrounding him WI,
1 have passed away we do not know
, in what unconscionable hands thi
plant will fall, and neither doe!
any man now who is living today