Flood Control in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3531, a Bill to Amend the Act Entitled "An Act for the Control of Floods on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries and for Other Purposes", Approved May 15, 1928, January 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1936 |
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... question of com- pensation to be paid is , perhaps , the most serious difficulty that is carried in the bill . The language employed in this act is the lan- guage of the Constitution of the United States , and the courts have held as I ...
... question of com- pensation to be paid is , perhaps , the most serious difficulty that is carried in the bill . The language employed in this act is the lan- guage of the Constitution of the United States , and the courts have held as I ...
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... question , that is this : The suggestion has been made , and it probably will be made before this committee at the present hearing , that we may dispense entirely with the Eudora floodway or the Boeuf floodway and substitute therefor a ...
... question , that is this : The suggestion has been made , and it probably will be made before this committee at the present hearing , that we may dispense entirely with the Eudora floodway or the Boeuf floodway and substitute therefor a ...
Page 27
... question of floodways ; ( b ) The modifications should be of a positive nature with the object of providing the greatest possible protection to the lives and property of the people in the valley ; and ( c ) A report should be submitted ...
... question of floodways ; ( b ) The modifications should be of a positive nature with the object of providing the greatest possible protection to the lives and property of the people in the valley ; and ( c ) A report should be submitted ...
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... question of doing this in equity and in an orderly procedure , we know about condemnations . We are in con- demnations all over the United States right now . I found that the Mississippi River Commission reported to the administration ...
... question of doing this in equity and in an orderly procedure , we know about condemnations . We are in con- demnations all over the United States right now . I found that the Mississippi River Commission reported to the administration ...
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... question of compensations had to do with some rational , equitable means of mak- ing due compensation without getting the United States into a mass of claims , condemnation , and expense , the amount or value of which I certainly could ...
... question of compensations had to do with some rational , equitable means of mak- ing due compensation without getting the United States into a mass of claims , condemnation , and expense , the amount or value of which I certainly could ...
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26 reservoirs acres adopted project Arkansas and White Arkansas City Arkansas River assessed value Atchafalaya Basin Atchafalaya River backwater area bill Boeuf Basin Boeuf floodway Chairman Chief of Engineers compensation Congress construction cost crevasse cut-offs Cypress damage discharge drainage easements East Carroll East Carroll Parish estimated Eudora floodway Ferguson Flood Control Act Flood Control Committee flood heights flood waters flow flowage rights fuseplug levee gage Government guide levees hearings highway JACOBS KEMPER Laconia Circle lands levee boards levee district levee grade Louisiana lower Mississippi main river MARKHAM miles Mississippi River Commission Mississippi Valley Morganza floodway outlet overflow Parish percent present property owners proposed question railroad RANSDELL recommended Red River reduce Representative MILLER Representative WHITTINGTON River levee second-feet Senator BILBO Senator OVERTON Senator SHEPPARD spillway stage statement SUMMERLIN superflood Tensas Tensas Parish tion tributaries tupelo United Vicksburg White River Yazoo River