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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL September 7, 2016 O PINION Offbeat Oregon History Did Oregon’s political supervillain save the world from Nazi nukes? BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel work. But in the meantime, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes – who was in charge of all the projects – learned what was afoot. Ickes was a passionate opponent of the Bonneville Dam proj- ect from the start. It’s not clear why; Martin felt it was personal animosity toward himself, but Martin had a deep and ugly streak of paranoia when it came to things like that. It may have been because of appreciation of the scenic beauty of the Columbia Gorge, some of which would be disappearing beneath a lake if the dam were built. Or it might have been simply a sense of fi nancial responsibility; a green light for Bonneville, after all, meant a red light for some other project. $3.3 billion was a lot of money, but it’s not an unlimited amount. And he surely was also aware of Oregon’s private electric utilities’ agenda; he may have thought a dam at Bonneville would simply be a gift to those wealthy pri- vate interests. But the reason Ickes gave for op- posing the project was very reason- able: With two dams on the river, there would be far more power coming out than the Pacifi c Northwest could pos- sibly use. Much of it would be simply wasted. Why spend a bunch of money to build a second dam when the fi rst one would slake the area’s power needs and then some? So while the two lawmakers were bustling about getting things ready, Ickes was smoothly and effectively walking the President back from the commitment he’d made. Months went by, and Martin grew suspicious. Back in Washington, he learned what was up; but he also learned, through a fellow offi cer, that the Army Corps of Engineers had just fi nished a survey on the site, and was recommending a $31 million facility there. Martin got a copy of this report, but kept it to himself. A few weeks later, he learned that the President had allocated $250,000 to investigate the feasibility of a dam at Bonneville. Instantly he knew that the 250 grand was kiss-off money – a little economic something attached to an empty promise to buy a little time so that Roosevelt and Ickes could move on with a minimum of drama. Calling home to Oregon, he told McNary the showdown was nigh and asked him to return to Washington. Martin knew that he, a mere House member, had little pull in the White House; but McNary, as one of the 96 Senators who voted on Cabinet confi r- mations, would have a lot more clout. Reluctantly, McNary came, and the two of them essentially staged a sit- in in the White House until Roosevelt agreed to see them. When, as predicted, Roosevelt C harles Henry “Iron Pants” Martin was probably the most scurrilous and unlovable character in Oregon political history. As an Army offi cer during the Boxer Rebellion, he looted Chinese palaces; as Or- egon governor during the 1930s, he expressed support for fascism; and, worst of all, as an Army general af- ter the First World War, he was in charge of “breaking” America’s Afri- can American war veterans at a sort of post-service humiliation-and-deg- radation camp so that they would not get “uppity” after returning to civilian life. So it’s a little odd to think that Or- egon, and the rest of the world, may actually owe him a debt of gratitude for saving it from a nuclear holocaust at the hands of the Nazis. Here’s the story: In 1933, when newly elected Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt set about showering the country with borrowed money in an attempt to stimulate the economy out of the Great Depression, one of the projects on his list was put- ting a hydroelectric dam on the Co- lumbia River. The government quickly green- lighted one. But to the dismay of Or- egonians, it was set to go at Grand Coulee, up in Washington. It would do nothing for the navigability of the lower Columbia, where boats were still having to portage around the Cascade Rapids or use the locks there. It would do nothing for fl ood control, either. And – probably most importantly, for the political elites of both parties in Oregon – it would not provide Oregon’s well-connected pri- vate electric utilities with a pipeline to super-cheap hydroelectric power that they could buy cheap and make a kill- ing selling at their standard residential service rates. So Oregon’s Congressional del- egation swung into action. And that’s where Charles Henry Martin comes into the story. At that time, Martin, a Democrat, was serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. Martin joined with Oregon Sen. Charles McNary, a Re- publican, to urge the President to spend some of the $3.3 billion appro- priation on a second dam project on the Columbia – what would turn into Bonneville. McNary, who had been pushing for a dam since the Hoover Administration, sent a letter to the President; so did Martin; and a couple months later they followed it up with a personal visit. The President was convinced and told the two lawmakers that if they could fi nd a suitable place to put a dam, he’d put it on the list. Elated, Martin and McNary went to Please see OFFBEAT, Page 5A CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS Phone: (541) 682-4203 Fax: (541) 682-4616 Oregon State House of Representatives: United States House of Representatives: Cottage Grove City Councilors: Rep. Cedric Hayden (REP) District: 007 900 Court Street NE Suite H-288 Salem, OR 97301 Phone: (503) 986-1407 Fax: (503) 986-1130 Email: rep.cedrichayden@state.or.us Rep. Peter A. 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