Flood Control on the Saint Francis River, Missouri and Arkansas: Hearings Before the Committee on Flood Control, House of Representatives, Seventy-first Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 7875, by Mr. Driver, a Bill for the Control of Floods in the Saint Francis River in Missouri and Arkansas, and for Other Purposes. February 3 and 4, 1930 |
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... live in this great basin ? They have already spent approximately $ 13 , - 000,000 building levees along the St. Francis itself . They have spent approximately $ 19,000,000 along the Mississippi , in this area , which makes a total of ...
... live in this great basin ? They have already spent approximately $ 13 , - 000,000 building levees along the St. Francis itself . They have spent approximately $ 19,000,000 along the Mississippi , in this area , which makes a total of ...
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... live along the main tributaries that flow into the chief artery that will carry the commerce of this great Nation receive relief , it will depend largely on the action taken on this measure . We are going to establish a national policy ...
... live along the main tributaries that flow into the chief artery that will carry the commerce of this great Nation receive relief , it will depend largely on the action taken on this measure . We are going to establish a national policy ...
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... live has five radiating from the town , and all the other county seats in Missouri and Arkansas are similarly situated . If these sections of 50,000 , 100,000 , and 150,000 acres are depopulated , those highways be- come very much ...
... live has five radiating from the town , and all the other county seats in Missouri and Arkansas are similarly situated . If these sections of 50,000 , 100,000 , and 150,000 acres are depopulated , those highways be- come very much ...
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... lives of the people from drowning . Mr. BARRON . We do not let them drown . We get out when the floods are on and get them on high ground . The CHAIRMAN . What are you going to do next year on behalf of the State ? Mr. BARRON . The ...
... lives of the people from drowning . Mr. BARRON . We do not let them drown . We get out when the floods are on and get them on high ground . The CHAIRMAN . What are you going to do next year on behalf of the State ? Mr. BARRON . The ...
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... live embraces something over 550,000 acres of land . I have been instrumental in organizing — I am an attorney - a drainage improvement district that covers every inch of land in the county except a strip between the Mississippi River ...
... live embraces something over 550,000 acres of land . I have been instrumental in organizing — I am an attorney - a drainage improvement district that covers every inch of land in the county except a strip between the Mississippi River ...
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Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following work of improvement is hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 1 - No liability of any kind shall attach to or rest upon the United States for any damage from or by floods or flood waters at any place: Provided, however.
Page 79 - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this: that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
Page 1 - States, contribute 33 1/3 per centum of the costs of the works, and maintain them after completion : AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That not more than $10,000,000, of the sums authorized in section 1 of this Act, shall be expended under the provisions of this section. In an emergency, funds appropriated under authority of section 1 of this Act may be expended for the maintenance of any levee when it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War that the levee can not be adequately maintained...
Page 1 - River for protection against the floods of that river; in view of the extent of national concern in the control of these floods in the interests of national prosperity, the flow of interstate commerce, and the movement of the United States mails ; and, in view of the gigantic scale of the project, involving flood waters of a volume and flowing...
Page 81 - 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 01 abridgment by the United States, or by the States, as the case may be...
Page 80 - 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 26 - Under the provisions of the law as it existed prior to the passage of the...
Page 1 - That it is hereby declared to be the sense of Congress that the principle of local contribution toward the cost of Hood-control work, which has been incorporated in all previous national legislation on the subject, is sound, as recognizing the special interest of the local population in its own protection, and as a means of preventing inordinate requests for unjustified items of work having no material national...
Page 111 - ... pm, a recess was taken until 2 o'clock pm) AFTER RECESS (The hearing was resumed at 2 o'clock pm, pursuant to the taking of recess.) The CHAIRMAN.