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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... side territory does not contribute to the evil , as was and is the case with the Mississippi ; in other words , touching upon your point there , is this a case where the Federal Government should assume the full burden and entire ...
... side territory does not contribute to the evil , as was and is the case with the Mississippi ; in other words , touching upon your point there , is this a case where the Federal Government should assume the full burden and entire ...
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... side allowed it to die on the calendar . I stayed there until 3 o'clock in the morning trying to get it through , but some of those gentlemen had pet bills . I am not making any comparison- The CHAIRMAN . Well , your great problem - I ...
... side allowed it to die on the calendar . I stayed there until 3 o'clock in the morning trying to get it through , but some of those gentlemen had pet bills . I am not making any comparison- The CHAIRMAN . Well , your great problem - I ...
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... side to the right - hand chute of Little River . From this point levees were constructed on each side of right- hand chute , 2,000 feet apart , to form a floodway for Little River , which floodway extends south into Poinsett County and ...
... side to the right - hand chute of Little River . From this point levees were constructed on each side of right- hand chute , 2,000 feet apart , to form a floodway for Little River , which floodway extends south into Poinsett County and ...
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... side of the continent to the other , and it will at , least tend to prevent any recovery by the United States Government of the revenue beyond the maximum per- mitted earnings . I think that is sufficient to fairly invoke the com- merce ...
... side of the continent to the other , and it will at , least tend to prevent any recovery by the United States Government of the revenue beyond the maximum per- mitted earnings . I think that is sufficient to fairly invoke the com- merce ...
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... side . Now , as Judge Driver said this morning , the United States Con- gress will not stand by and see this population destroyed . There is a population in this district , and I do not say they are all drowned out . The population of ...
... side . Now , as Judge Driver said this morning , the United States Con- gress will not stand by and see this population destroyed . There is a population in this district , and I do not say they are all drowned out . The population of ...
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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...