Flood Control on the Saint Francis River, Missouri and Arkansas: Hearings... on H.R. 7875..., February 3 and 4, 1930...1930 - 172 pages |
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... that " there is no Federal interest involved and therefore it becomes necessary for these people to pay for their own salvation . " We will not disregard this fact , gentlemen , that 4 FLOOD CONTROL ON ST . FRANCIS RIVER.
... that " there is no Federal interest involved and therefore it becomes necessary for these people to pay for their own salvation . " We will not disregard this fact , gentlemen , that 4 FLOOD CONTROL ON ST . FRANCIS RIVER.
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... Federal participation , or assumption of the obliga- tion to control the floods on the tributary streams of our country . Some suggestion has been made to the effect that it is a matter entirely outside of the authority of the Army ...
... Federal participation , or assumption of the obliga- tion to control the floods on the tributary streams of our country . Some suggestion has been made to the effect that it is a matter entirely outside of the authority of the Army ...
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... Federal interest involved . It is well known that wherever we find a mountain there is a valley , and wherever there is a hill there is a hollow , and wherever there is a valley or hollow there are water courses . That is just natural ...
... Federal interest involved . It is well known that wherever we find a mountain there is a valley , and wherever there is a hill there is a hollow , and wherever there is a valley or hollow there are water courses . That is just natural ...
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... Federal - aid highways . During the past four years the people of this valley have suffered from floods from one to three times each year , and you gentlemen have recently read of the most unfortunate condition that exists to- day in ...
... Federal - aid highways . During the past four years the people of this valley have suffered from floods from one to three times each year , and you gentlemen have recently read of the most unfortunate condition that exists to- day in ...
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... Federal Government constructs them , and I propose and submit this to you gentlemen of the committee , that unless we preserve this terri- tory that is so fertile and productive and unsurpassed in all the world - it reminds me of the ...
... Federal Government constructs them , and I propose and submit this to you gentlemen of the committee , that unless we preserve this terri- tory that is so fertile and productive and unsurpassed in all the world - it reminds me of the ...
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acres amount Arkansas Army engineers backwater area BARRON BEGG Big Lake bill Black River bonds breaks build Butler County cent CHAIRMAN commerce committee Congress construction cost COSTON Craighead County crops DAGGETT damage delinquent Doctor TAYLOR DUNBAR Dunklin County effect expenditures extend farm Federal Government Federal interest feet flood control flood waters flooded area floodway Francis Basin Francis County Francis levee district Francis River gentlemen give improvement JONES Judge Driver KOPP Lee County Little River Little River drainage loss LYNCH Madrid County Marked Tree ment miles Mississippi County Mississippi River Missouri Missouri and Arkansas navigation overflow Parkin pellagra Pemiscot County PHARR Poinsett County protection question railroad Red Cross relief REYNOLDS RHYNE road SEAGRAVES SEARS situation statement Stoddard County stream taxes territory tion Total tributaries TSCHUDY United week ending Thursday WHITTINGTON
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Page 14 - Engineers, no money shall be expended on the main river project until satisfactory assurances have been given by the local interests that after completion the flood-control works will be maintained at the expense of local interests.
Page 77 - The whole scope and effect of this series of decisions is that, while certain fundamental rights, recognized and declared, but not granted or created, in some of the Amendments to the Constitution, are thereby guaranteed only against violation or abridgment by the United States, or by the States, as the case may be...
Page 77 - Court. the exercise of the correlative duty of protection, or of the legislative powers conferred upon it by the Constitution, may in its discretion deem most eligible and best adapted to attain the object.
Page 76 - Citizens of the United States were in custody of the marshal under a lawful commitment, from whom they were violently taken and murdered. The alleged murderers were indicted under section 5508, Revised Statutes, which made it a crime to conspire to injure any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of a right secured him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
Page 24 - Under the provisions of the law as it existed prior to the passage of the...