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2 Development of Hydroelectric Energy at Great Falls: Minority Report, February 5, 1925 1925

handle is hein.beal/rmhe0002 and id is 1 raw text is: 68TH CONGRESS) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (REPT. 1247 Ed Session J Pact 2 DEVELOPMENT OF HYDROELECTRIC ENERGY A'' GREAT FALLS FEBRUARY 5, 1925.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on tie state of the Union and ordered to be printed, with illustrations Mr. BLANTOx, from the Committee on the District of Columbia. submitted the following MINORITY REPORT [To accompany S. 7461 I can not agree with the six members of the committee who voted to report this bill favorably. The amended bill and the committee re- port are both misleading. Neither gives a true idea of what is pro- posed. This bill in no way whatever affects navigation. It does not in- tend to improve a navigable river. The sole and only purpose of this bill is to furnish cheaper electricity to residents of the District of Columbia. It is not based on necessity. The private utility company is now furnishing to residents of the District of Columbia electric power and current at a rate just as cheap, if not cheaper, than residents of all comparable cities in the United States are paying. There is no threat of increasing charges. On the contrary, charges have recently been reduced. And there is actively functioning here in the District of Columbia a Public Utility Commission which lately caused the Potomac Electric Power Co. to impound $4,000,000 and, under agree- ment approved by the trial court, to distribute $2,000,000 among its patrons. The power site at Great Falls is not in the District of Columbia. It is not owned by the Government. It is owned by the Potomac Electric Power Co. and the Great Falls Power Co., which together own 859 acres of land on one side of the river in the State of Virginia and 300 acres of land on the other side of the river in the State of Maryland. The remainder of the contiguous land involved is owned by citizens of Virginia on one side and by citizens of Maryland on the oiher side of the river, which river in that vicinity is the line between Virginia and Maryland. The title of this bill, as introduced in the Senate, reads, Providing for the development of hydroelectric energy at Great Falls, and the

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