Evening star., 1933-04-10
TENNESSEE VALLEY
PROPOSAL is LAID
BEFORE CONGRESS
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will recommend an appropriation O
$50 ,000, 900. OF this amount $34,,
000, 900 will be for the construction O
the proposed dam at Cove Greek, which
will enormously increase the power
facilities.
Norris later said he would introduc.
the bill tomorrow and 1t contained "nl
fundamental change" from his las
Government operation measure. al.
though there would be some elabora-
ton.
1t would authorize an initial appro.
priation In addition to the bond fea.
ture, Norris said, and If the bill passed
''in q weeks time we could began en-
ploying men,"
Praising the Presidents message as
an official approval of l2-year dream
that I've had" Norris said 1t was "the
most wonderful, comprehensive and
far-reaching humanitarian document
ever to come down from the White
House"
1T shows q grasp Of the national
scope and importance Of the questions
involved" the Nebraskan asserted.
Only Zone Right Way"
He added he had always said there
was only lone right way" to develop
river the size Of the Tennessee and
that was to consider navigation. power
and flood control as "one proposition
The message, he continued. com
plete]y visualizes the Tennessee River
Basin problem and In the last para
graph applies it to the whole country.
He said the President Vas justified In
starting what he termed the beginning
Of q Nation wide project Of Hood con-
troll, power, navigation, and irrigation
on the Tennessee because I'VE have q
s150, ,0O0, 900 investment there"
Eventually, he said, every Western
State and others would be involved.
Norris said one new provision Of the
bill that would probably incite some
opposition" would be that making power
transmission lines common carriers
subject to regulation by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Thousands of acres are now in the
Gulf of Mexico" he said, regarding the
need for soil erosion prevention.
THE project In its longer view he
said, will make rivers and streams of
the entire Mississippi Valley and else
where steadfast in their flow.
Plan Goes Beyond Power.
"It will settle the question of mar
ginai lands wherever that question Is
involved In the West eventually 1t
will meet the irrigation problem"
The Tennessee River Basin project
goes far beyond the matter of power
development. 1t includes food control
reforestation and development Of natu-
raj resources and industries through
extension of transportation facilities.
President Roosevelt, during the presi-
dental campaign and afterward, dis
cussed the need for development Of the
Muscle Shoals power plant owned by
the Government, and the possible use
of the fertilizer plant also. He has
held that the power developed at the
Government plant and sold to power
companies and others might well become
yard stick which would measure rea-
sonable rates charged the public fol
power, light and heat.
Visited Shoals Last Winter.
The President, during the last Win
ter visited Muscle Shoals and the Ten
nessee River Basin. accompanied by
Senator Norris, the Tennessee and Ala
bama Senators and others and gained
first hand impression of the problem
there. 1t was after that trip that II
became known he planned to tackle the