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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... Engineers dated August 7 , 1929 , and printed in House Document Numbered 159 , Seventy - first Congress , second ses- sion , is hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the ...
... Engineers dated August 7 , 1929 , and printed in House Document Numbered 159 , Seventy - first Congress , second ses- sion , is hereby adopted and authorized to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the ...
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... engineers to pay for their own salvation , have spread upon themselves the enormous burden of indebtedness through which they were able to raise money to provide that measure of protection which they have by reason of the construction ...
... engineers to pay for their own salvation , have spread upon themselves the enormous burden of indebtedness through which they were able to raise money to provide that measure of protection which they have by reason of the construction ...
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... Engineers to comment on the economic features , but we are unable to take that position from the fact that they are acting under our direction . But I do want to make this suggestion that notwithstanding the fact that they make this ...
... Engineers to comment on the economic features , but we are unable to take that position from the fact that they are acting under our direction . But I do want to make this suggestion that notwithstanding the fact that they make this ...
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... engineers to control the main stream , created into a storage basin . That is growing larger from year to year , and in the course of these hearings we will reveal to this com- mittee that it has a very pronounced effect in the creation ...
... engineers to control the main stream , created into a storage basin . That is growing larger from year to year , and in the course of these hearings we will reveal to this com- mittee that it has a very pronounced effect in the creation ...
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... engineers ? Had you finished with that ? Mr. Sinclair asked you a question dealing with the methods of control proposed by the engineers ? The CHAIRMAN . I suggest that we do not get into that just at this moment . Let us first get a ...
... engineers ? Had you finished with that ? Mr. Sinclair asked you a question dealing with the methods of control proposed by the engineers ? The CHAIRMAN . I suggest that we do not get into that just at this moment . Let us first get a ...
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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...