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...minority stockholders was endangered, whether they had a right to sue. He declined to let any technicality stand in the way of their right to sue, declaring: "We should not seek to find means of avoiding ruling on a constitutional question." The second question, he declared, was whether Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals (whence the debated power line leads) was legally constructed. Both because it was built under Wartime laws to provide power for making explosives and because it was designed to improve navigation, the Federal Government had been entitled to construct it. Therefore the dam was not illegal. Third...
Fourth and final question was whether the Government had the right to buy transmission lines to take power from its legal dams to market. Said Chief Justice Hughes: "The question here is simply as to the disposal of that energy, and the Government rightly conceded at the bar in substance that it was without constitutional authority to acquire or dispose of such energy except as it comes into being in the operation of works constructed in the exercise of some power delegated to the United States. . . . The Government is not using the water power at Wilson Dam to establish...
...Government is disposing of the energy itself, which simply is the mechanical energy, incidental to falling water at the dam, converted into the electric energy which is susceptible of transmission...
Although the decision touched the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals alone, an avowed wartime measure, it appears almost certain that the Court will view the rest of the T.V.A. project with similar approval. What Congress has done here under its war powers, it may do in time of peace under the navigation power, as Chief Justice Hughes, in emphasizing the fact that the "Tennessee River is a navigable stream," has suggested. This, of course, is only one means out of many, but it is an ironical truth in American government that once the Supreme Court has turned the light from...
Died. Dr. Elwood Mead, 78, engineer, world authority on drainage and irrigation, since 1924 chief of the Bureau of Reclamation, supervising such projects as Boulder Dam; of thrombosis; in Washington...