ITEMS OF INTEREST April 9, 1910 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The movement for the transfer of water-power sites from the Government to the several states and territories has taken concrete shape in a bill introduced by Senator Smoot, which provides for the leasing of power sites by the states and does not permit their sale under any conditions. It provides for transfer to a state whenever it is shown to the satisfaction of the secretary of the interior that any tract of land is chiefly valuable as a power site. Other conditions of the bill are; That the land shall be devoted by the lessee only to the development of water-power; that the state shall reserve the right to fix charges by power companies for each ten-year period; that no monopoly shall be permitted to lessees under the law.

President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University says: "A new day has come. Men and measures are being scrutinized as never before. For myself, I veritably believe that we are upon the eve of a new era of political liberty, when more literally and truly than ever before we can realize the ideals of popular government and of individual privilege—the dawn of an age in which the pristine vigor of America may be renewed amidst fresh achievements for humanity."

The New York Senate committee of the whole, by a vote of forty to nine, sustained the charge that Senator Allds had demanded and taken a bribe. He resigned before the voting began. The charges were brought at a meeting of seven insurgents at the Hotel Ten Eyck, in Albany, on Jan. 4, the day on which the regulars had elected Allds majority leader of the Senate and temporary president of that House.

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