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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... reason of the construction of the levees on the main bank of the Mississippi River , and there exists to - day on that 1,950,000 acres their propor- tionate part of the vast debt of the levee districts of Missouri and Arkansas on the ...
... reason of the construction of the levees on the main bank of the Mississippi River , and there exists to - day on that 1,950,000 acres their propor- tionate part of the vast debt of the levee districts of Missouri and Arkansas on the ...
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... reasons why I would not . The influence- The CHAIRMAN . I would like to make the suggestion that we do not throw Judge Driver off of his main speech . Let him finish and then we will cross - examine him , if we desire . Mr. DRIVER ...
... reasons why I would not . The influence- The CHAIRMAN . I would like to make the suggestion that we do not throw Judge Driver off of his main speech . Let him finish and then we will cross - examine him , if we desire . Mr. DRIVER ...
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... reason of the failure to clear and properly place such floodway to perform usefully and to the limit of its function it has never disposed more than 22,000 cubic feet , and therefore the purpose for which it was constructed is ...
... reason of the failure to clear and properly place such floodway to perform usefully and to the limit of its function it has never disposed more than 22,000 cubic feet , and therefore the purpose for which it was constructed is ...
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... reason of the 1928 act , and for that reason the obligation of the Government has been absolved , if it had any . In support of that , if this situation exists - and I will hurry along so as to not transgress on your time - if we can ...
... reason of the 1928 act , and for that reason the obligation of the Government has been absolved , if it had any . In support of that , if this situation exists - and I will hurry along so as to not transgress on your time - if we can ...
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... reason why we can not handle it in the way the engineers suggest . They say , if I may quote it , on page 56 , section 49 : That any further works for the control of floods on the St. Francis River or its tributaries should be carried ...
... reason why we can not handle it in the way the engineers suggest . They say , if I may quote it , on page 56 , section 49 : That any further works for the control of floods on the St. Francis River or its tributaries should be carried ...
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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 Crittenden 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 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 SCURLOCK SEAGRAVES SEARS situation statement Stoddard County stream taxes territory tion Total tributaries TSCHUDY United week ending Thursday WHITTINGTON
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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.