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Wisconsin's Power Fight
Reis, Alvin C. | September 18, 1929 issue

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In the 1927 U.S. legislature a proposal of promoting the wider use of electricity in the home and on the farm and for the purpose of promoting the industrial development was introduced. it passed the Assembly 70 to 13, and was killed in the Senate 20 to 10. In the 1929 session this constitutional amendment was again introduced. It passed the Assembly 71 to 19. On July 31 it was killed in the Senate by the vote of 17 to 16-a single vote. The author says that the political philosophy behind it is that water-power is a natural resource to be held in trust by the State for the benefit of all the people rather than to be alienated to private interests.

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LEGISLATIVE bodies; WATER-power; POWER resources; INDUSTRIALIZATION; CONSTITUTIONAL amendments; POLITICAL science -- Philosophy
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