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Next day Cleveland's Frank Taplin, famed union mine operator who wants a U. M. W. code, called on Administrator Johnson, declared: "General, you're letting that gang of non-union Appalachian operators make a sucker out of you." Rapped back General Johnson: "You wouldn't think so if you knew what I told them yesterday...
...Case. Appalachian Electric Power Co. wants to build an $11,000,000 dam and plant on the New River near Radford, Va. The Federal Power Commission offered it a standard license whereunder its plant investment would be strictly scrutinized, its rates regulated, its property recaptured by the U. S. after 50 years. Such a license Appalachian declined, on the ground that the New River is non-navigable, therefore beyond F. P. C.'s jurisdiction...
...Issue. Has F. P. C. authority over plants to be built on non-navigable streams under the interstate commerce powers of the Federal Government? Onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, as attorney for Appalachian, argued it had no such power while Huston Thompson, onetime Federal Trade Commissioner, as F. P. C. attorney, argued that...
...Decision. Attorney Thompson won, Attorney Baker lost. Federal Judge Luther Way decided that the Appalachian project came under F. P. C. jurisdiction because the New River, though not navigable itself, flows into the navigable Kanawha which in turn flows into the navigable Ohio. A power dam on the New River could affect downstream navigability and hence interstate commerce. The effect of the decision was to compel Appalachian to accept F. P. C.'s authority in the form of a standard license instead of getting a "minor part" license which involves no Government regulation, no recapture. If sustained by higher...
...last week Chief Justice Hughes, in addition to commenting on the sad state of the coal trade, handed down a decision reversing the findings of the lower courts and permitting Coalman Francis to put Appalachian Coals into operation...