The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-06-08
HENRY FORD'S
FINAL OFFER
MANUFACTURER WOULD SAVE
MUSCLE SHOALS FOR BENE-
FIT OF PUBLIC.

Two committees cf congress Friday
resumed study of plans for develop
ing the government projects at Mus
Gle Shoals, Ala, with a view to pre-
senting completed proposals to the
house and senate for final disposition.
In the house military committee
developments pointed to a quick de-
cision by that body, delivery there
of Henry Ford's final proposal and
the presentation of a letter from him
to Chairman Kahn calling for early
acceptance or rejection of the tender
as whole, stimulating action among
the committeeman. After an eXecu-
tive meeting during which the new
language added by Mr.. Ford to the
committees counter offer. was care
fully studied, another meeting was
arranged for last Thursday when w.
B. Mayo and ]. w. Worthington, rep
resenting the Detroit manufacturer,
will join the committee in what may
be their last joint efforts to adjust
existing differences.
That the meeting tomorrow might
result in the committee acceding to
Mr.. Ford's request, agreeing to in
clude the Gorgas steam plant among
the other properties to be disposed
of at Muscle Shoals and formally ap-
proving his notifications Of the COM
mittee's plan, was predicted by some
members. Others, however, remained
firm in their opposition to such an
agreement. Before the senate agri-
culture committee today, Secretary
Weeks declared his belief that speedy
action could not be had in congress
while the house and senate continued
to move along in what appeared to
him to be opposite paths in seeking
to find a solution of the problem.
The war secretary suggested that
the two executive bodies get together,
work out proposal acceptable to
both and find a person who would
undertake its execution. He said he
believed the task could be better per-
for ned by a federal agency.
Chairman Norris, of Nebraska, later
introduced an amendment to the army
supply bill in the senate providing
s7,5OO,OO0 for the Continuation of
the work on dam No. 2 in the Ten
nessee river at Muscle Shoals, Ala"
81. Ford's reply to the counter
proposal drafted by tie house mill
tary committee for development of
the government projects at Muscle
Shoals, Ala, was presented to the
committee by ]. w. Worthington'
representative of Mr.. Ford, immedi-
ately upon his arrival here from
Detroit, where he conferred with the
motor manufacturer.
Mr.. Ford's answer, made in the
form of a letter to Chairman Kahn,
definitely rejected the provision in the
committee plan, which eliminated the
steam plant at Gorgas, Ala, from the
properties to be disposed of by the
government with the Muscle Shoals
properties.
Insist on Gorgas Plant.
81 cannot consent to eliminate the
Gorgas plant" the letter said, "be-
cause it is necessary to the econom-
ical operation of the Muscle Shoals
properties. If my revised offer for
Gorgas is rejected, then l must un-
derstand that the acceptances of my
offer for Muscle Shoals as a whole
and not in part, is refused"
Mr.. Ford's reply further stated
that if congress votes acceptance OF
"my offer we will get on the job at
Muscle Shoals at once; but if congress
rejects, that will be but the beginning
of a more determined effort on my
part to save Muscle Shoals for the
benefit of the public"