War Department Civil Appropriation Bill, 1939: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, on H.R. 10291, Bill Making Appropriations for the War Department Civil Functions for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1939, and for Other PurposesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 80 lappuses |
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9-foot channel acres additional amount Anthony Falls approved April 21 Army Engineers asked authorized Barge Canal Board of Engineers break-down bridges Budget Bureau BURNETT Captain MARSHALL Chairman changes Chief of Engineers city of Minneapolis Colonel BAADE Colonel BROWNE Colonel CHAFFEE Colonel MCMAHON Colonel SCHMIDT Congress construction cost Court Cragston property Eudora floodway expense FELTUS flood control Fort Bliss freight funds GIBBINS Government grade separation grain High Commissioner highway improvement indicating on map interests JAMES land legislation levees matter MCCARTHY Mississippi River Morganza floodway necessary Northern Pacific Paul point of order question railroads RINGLAND River project Rivers and Harbors Ruge SEAMAN Secretary Secretary of War Senator COPELAND Senator DUFFY Senator HAYDEN Senator OVERTON Senator SHEPPARD Senator SHIPSTEAD Senator TOWNSEND spend statement surveys TURTON War Department Wax Lake outlet West Point Yazoo River
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15. lappuse - This authorization usually is in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers and the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in a report on the need and justification of the proposed improvement.
75. lappuse - That the sum of $5,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated as an emergency fund to be allotted by the Secretary of War on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, in rescue work or in the repair or maintenance of any flood-control work on any tributaries of the Mississippi River threatened or destroyed by flood including the flood of 1927.
11. lappuse - General, $18,000; in addition thereto he shall be entitled to the occupancy of the buildings heretofore used by the chief executive of the Philippines, with the furniture and effects therein...
43. lappuse - Stat. 1570), as amended and supplemented, conferring authority upon the Department of Agriculture under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture to make preliminary examinations and surveys and to prosecute works of improvement for runoff and waterflow retardation and soil erosion prevention on the watersheds of rivers and other waterways...
10. lappuse - The United States High Commissioner shall receive the same compensation as is now received by the Governor General of the Philippine Islands, and shall have such staff and assistants as the President may...
10. lappuse - The first appropriation for this office was carried in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1935. The gentleman from New York [Mr. Taber], the ranking Republican member of the Committee on Appropriations, was a member of the subcommittee which reported that bill, which evidently was influenced to allow this $10,000 item because of that word "compensation. During the hearings on that bill the then chairman, Mr. Buchanan, made this inquiry of General Cox, who was then Chief of the Bureau...
19. lappuse - Captain MARSHALL. Yes, sir. Senator COPELAND. Well, how much have you in the bill now to cover these items at present? Captain MARSHALL. There is a total of $31,000,000 contained in the bill as now written for flood-control works in the Mississippi. The break-down on that is quite elastic. In other words, instead of $5,000,000 for corrective dredging and $8,000,000 for levees, as the work progresses and you see the need for more money for levees and less for dredging, those amounts can be shifted....
77. lappuse - I should like to impress on this committee that there is no intention on the part of the War Department to start or to support an armament race among the other American countries.
57. lappuse - The main purpose of grade separation, therefore, is now the furtherance of uninterrupted, rapid movement by motor vehicles.
57. lappuse - L. Ry. v. Walters, 294 US 405: Federal-aid highways are designed so that motor vehicles may move thereon at a speed commonly much greater than that of railroad trains. The railroad has ceased to be the prime instrument of danger and the main cause of accidents. It is the railroad which now requires protection from dangers incident to motor transportation. Fleetway, Inc., v. Public Service Interstate Transp. Co., 72 Fed. (2d) 761, third circuit: Monopoly, discrimination...