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Bill Taft: “I deem it highly important that the Nation should adopt a consistent and harmonious treatment of these water-power…”

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I deem it highly important that the Nation should adopt a consistent and harmonious treatment of these water-power projects, which will preserve for this purpose their value to the Government, whose right it is to grant the permit.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft stresses the importance of a consistent national policy for managing water-power projects.

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