Muscle shoals bills before congress

Almost since President Hoover´s calling of the special session of Congress a year ago, numerous bills and resolutions dealing with Muscle Shoals have been introduced into Congress; among them, H. R. 744, for the leasing of Muscle Shoals to private interests; S. J. 49, for its use for national defense by corporation and government operation; S. 813, for commission control; S. 815, for the building of transmission lines for power generated; H. R. 2826, for its preservation, completion, maintenance, and operation as a project for war, navigation, fertilizer, manufacture, electric power production, flood and farm relief, etc., with the incorporation of the Farmers Federated Fertilizer Corporation and lease to it; S. 1302, lease to Air Nitrates Corporation and American Cyanamid Company; S. 1303 preservation, completion, maintenance and operation of Muscle Shoals project; H. J. 142, for its use for national defense; H. R. 5628, for its completion and operation by the Farmers Federated Fertilizer Corporation; H. J. Res. 218, for operation and development; and H. R. 10132, for a modified form of previous bill. This listing gives the Bills in chronological order of introduction, covering a period from April 1929 to February 1930.