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1 Muscle Shoals: Conference Report to Accompany the Bill H. R. 518 1925

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68TH  CONGREss              SENATE                     DOCUMENT
   2d Sesion                                            No. 196




                       MUSCLE SHOALS


                Mr. KEYES  submitted the following
   CONFERENCE REPORT TO ACCOMPANY THE BILL H. A.-518


   FEBRUARY 3 (calendar day, FEBRUARY 7), 1925.-Ordered to be printed

   The  committee  on conference on  the disagreeing votes of the
two  Houses -on the amendment  of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 518)
 To authorize and direct the Secretary of War, for national defense
in time of war and for the production of fertilizers and other useful
products in time of peace, to sell to Henry Ford, or a corporation
to be  incorporated by him,  nitrate plant number  1, at Sheffield,
Alabama;  mtrate  plant numbered  2, at  Muscle Shoals, Alabama;
Waco  Quarry,  near Russellville, Alabama; steam power plant to be
located and constructed at or near Lock and dam  Numbered   17 on
the Black  Warrior River, Alabama,  with  right of way and  trans-
mission line to nitrate plant Numbered 2, Muscle Shoals, Alabama;
and  to lease to Henry Ford, or a corporation to be incorporated by
him,  Dam   Numbered   2 and  Dam  Numbered   3  (as designated in
House  Document   1262, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session), includ-
ing power  stations when  constructed as provided herein, and for
other purposes, having  met,  after full and free conference have
agreed to recommend   and do recommend  to their respective Houses
as follows:
   That the House  recede from its disagreement to the amendment
of the Senate and concuratherein with an amendment,  as follows:
   In lieu of the matter proposed by said amendment, insert:
An  Act  to provide for the national defense; for the production and
   manufacture of fixed nitrogen, commercial fertilier, and other useful
   products, and for other purposes.
   Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
 United States of America in Congress assembled,
 Section  1. That the United States nitrogen fixation plants numbered
 1 and 2, located, respectively, at Shefield, Alabama, and Muscle Shoals,
 Alabama, together with all real estate and buildings used in connection
 therewith; aPl tools, machinery, equipment, accessories, and materials
 thereunto belonging; all laboratories and plants used as auxiliaries
 thereto, the Waco limestone quarry in Alabama, and any others used
 as auxiliaries of said nitrogen plants numbered 1 and 2; also Dams
 numbered 2 and 3 located in the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals
their power houses, their auxiliary steam plants and all of their hydro-

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