Flood Control: The Mississippi River and its tributaries. Hearings Nov. 7 to 22, Nov. 28 to Dec. 19, 1927, Jan. 5-17, Jan. 18 to 26, Jan. 27-Feb. 1, 1928U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - Flood control |
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20 per cent acres amount Arkansas City Army engineers Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater banks Bayou Boeuf Boeuf River bonds Bonnet Carre Cairo Cape Girardeau Chairman Flood Control channel Chief of Engineers Colonel PILLSBURY Colonel POTTER commerce Committee on Flood Congress construction contribute cost crevasse crop cubic feet Cypress Creek damage drainage estimate farm Federal Government Flood Control Committee flood waters flow FRANK FREAR fuse-plug going Gulf House of Representatives Illinois interest Jadwin plan January KEMPER KOPP land levee districts LORIMER Louisiana Madrid main river Mississippi River Commission Mississippi Valley Missouri Morgan City navigation Old River Orleans overflow present problem question raised Red Cross Red River REID reservoirs SEARS second-feet Sicily Island spillway square miles statement STEVENS stream taxes Tensas Basin territory tion tributaries United Washington WHITTINGTON WILSON
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Page 4410 - ... to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 4125 - But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb; The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and ; The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Page 4063 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission.
Page 4725 - To sustain this statute would not be in our judgment a recognition of the lawful exertion of congressional authority over interstate commerce, but would sanction an invasion by the federal power of the control of a matter purely local in its character, and over which no authority has been delegated to Congress in conferring the power to regulate commerce among the States.
Page 4763 - The proceedings thus instituted terminated in the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the Government's contention. (United States v. Rio Grande Dam & Irrigation Co., 174 US, 690...
Page 4125 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 4410 - That the creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to the navigable capacity of any of the waters of the United States is hereby prohibited ; and it shall not be lawful to build or commence the building of any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead...
Page 4755 - ... of those navigable streams of the United States and their tributaries, whereon power development appears feasible and practicable, with a view to the formulation of general plans for the most effective improvement of such streams for the purposes of navigation and the prosecution of such improvements in combination with the most efficient development of the potential water power, the control of floods, and the needs of irrigation...
Page 4822 - It is not, however, to be conceded that Congress has no power to order obstructions to be placed in the navigable waters of the United States, either to assist navigation or to change its direction by forcing it into one channel of a river rather than the other. It may build lighthouses in the bed of the stream. It may construct jetties. It may require all navigators to pass along a prescribed channel, and may close any other channel to their passage.
Page 4762 - That a railroad to the Pacific Ocean, by the most central and practicable route, is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country, and that the Federal government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in Its construction ; and, as an auxiliary thereto, the immediate construction of an emigrant route on the line of the railroad.