The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-08-02
Sen. James Murray
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ganda calculation endeavoring to show
the taxes IVA should pay-The Spur.
ious Competition of Government En-
terprise, National Tax Equality AS.
ISOLATION, Chicago, ILL.,, October 1915.
Here we have a sample of what
passes for research by these organiza-
tions-the acceptance Of material
third hand or fourth hand or fifth
hand without any original investiga-
ton, although original material is
readily available. Obviously, the cri-
terion is not the truth or validity of
the material, but the simple question
Twill 1t, if believed, injure IVA? Will
it support our bias?"
The latest exploit of this National
Tax Equality Association, one of the
associations 1 mentioned earlier today,
has been an assault upon the schools,
right in the old NELA tradition.
NTEA has offered prizes to students
for essays upon the subject the Tax
Privilege of Public Corporations and
Co-operatives and Its Impact Upon
Private Business. Prizes are $3.50, $500
and 500 to the winning students. But
this is not all. No doubt in the interest
of stimulating objective research,
gratuities are provided also in the
amounts of $500, $75, and $50 for the
professors of the winning Students
Business Week, December 20, 1945.
Murray Wants Probe
of Power Lobby
Following his exposure of the pub
lie utility lobby in his speech, Senator
Murray introduced the following re-
solution calling for an Investigation of
the organized drive against public
power:
Whereas the full development and
careful conservation of the natural re-
sources of the United States is es-
sential to the present and future de-
Tense of the Nation; and
Whereas the availability from these
resources of great volume of electric
energy is essential to the present and
future defense of the Nation; and
whereas it was necessary to in
crease the volume Of available electric
power from 51,518,000 kilowatts to g.
$4,000 kilowatts between 1910 and
1914 in order that the national defense
might be strengthened and in order
that the war might be prosecuted, and
even this volume was barely adequate
to the emergency; and
Whereas in any future contingency
1t will be more necessary than at any
time in the past, by reason of the |
great significance of electricity in the |
of atomic energy, in the |
conduct of projecti1e warfare and of |
modern war in all its phases, that
very great volume Of such electrical |
energy be Immediately available; and
Whereas installations now existing |
in the United States may well prove |
in the event Of future en-
Urgency for the production of suffi-
cient electric power; and
Whereas construction of future
public power projects and continued
operation of present install
atoms is reported in the press to be
threatened by the activities
If strongly financed and unscrupu
GUS lobby maintained by the private
)ower interests of the country: There
ore be it
Resolved, That the Committee on
Military Affairs, or any duly author
zed subcommittee thereof, is auth
,rized to make a full and complete
itudy and investigation of all lobby
ng activities designed to prevent or
lelay the enactment Of public power
egislation, and to report to the Senate
lot later than January l, 1947, the
esults of its study and investigation,
ogether with such recommendations
any necessary legislation
IS 1t may deem desirable" I