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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... protection , and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no ma- terial national interest . As a full compliance with this principle in view of the great expenditure estimated at approximately ...
... protection , and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no ma- terial national interest . As a full compliance with this principle in view of the great expenditure estimated at approximately ...
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... protection against the flood waters from that main stem of the river . When we passed the flood control act signed on May 15 , 1928 , there was no assumption of any of the liabilities existing against lands in these various levee ...
... protection against the flood waters from that main stem of the river . When we passed the flood control act signed on May 15 , 1928 , there was no assumption of any of the liabilities existing against lands in these various levee ...
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... protection required in this instance . It is the reac- tion in the minds of a great many members of Congress that I have been in contact with , and who have expressed their views within our committee circle , that the ideal plan of ...
... protection required in this instance . It is the reac- tion in the minds of a great many members of Congress that I have been in contact with , and who have expressed their views within our committee circle , that the ideal plan of ...
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... protection to the narrow valleys , which they also improved and cultivated , they proceeded to use a dredge there and threw out the logs and other obstructions and started the flow of water with rapidity , that means one rainfall in the ...
... protection to the narrow valleys , which they also improved and cultivated , they proceeded to use a dredge there and threw out the logs and other obstructions and started the flow of water with rapidity , that means one rainfall in the ...
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... protect . They propose to enlarge that so that its carrying capacity will be 72,000 cubic feet . Little River is provided with a floodway affording the widening of that stream from the Missouri - Arkansas line down to the point where it ...
... protect . They propose to enlarge that so that its carrying capacity will be 72,000 cubic feet . Little River is provided with a floodway affording the widening of that stream from the Missouri - Arkansas line down to the point where it ...
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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...