Newlands-Broussard-Rainey River Regulation Bill: Hearings... on H.R. 1397...1916 - 196 lappuses |
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45. lappuse - We hold that the control of the Mississippi river is a national problem. The preservation of the depth of its water for the purpose of navigation, the building of levees to maintain the integrity of its channel, and the prevention of the overflow of the land and its consequent devastation, resulting in the interruption of interstate commerce, the disorganization of the mail service and the enormous loss of life and property, impose an obligation which alone can be discharged by the general government.
5. lappuse - in the North, in the South, in the East, and in the West, in schools large and small and in communities large and small the answers have been unanimously disheartening.
76. lappuse - We favor the co-operation of the United States and the respective states in plans for the comprehensive treatment of all waterways with a view of co-ordinating plans for channel improvement with plans for drainage of swamp and overflowed lands, and to this end we favor the appropriation by the federal government of sufficient funds to make surveys of such lands, to develop plans for draining...
26. lappuse - Commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service...
149. lappuse - ... emerged by degrees. In this respect, the creation of the drama, as exemplified by Ibsen, exhibits an excellent contrast to the creation of the Short-story, as exemplified by Maupassant or Poe. In the Short-story, the lines of action initially converge to the final goal. As Stevenson put it, the end is bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of the beginning. The conception must be retained throughout. In the drama, the lines of interest are continually set anew to converge, now here, now there....
26. lappuse - It shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi river...
73. lappuse - A bill to create a board of river regulation and to provide a fund for the regulation and control of the flow of navigable rivers In aid of interstate commerce, and as a means to that end to provide for flood prevention and protection and for the beneficial use of flood waters and for water storage and for the protection of watersheds from denudation and erosion and from forest fires, and for the cooperation of Government services and bureaus with each other and with States, municipalities, and other...
73. lappuse - ... the level of interstate rates. That was the assertion of a power to create at State lines a barrier against interstate commerce. After that case was fought out and it was determined that even under existing laws there was a power in the Interstate Commerce Commission to prevent such discrimination, a bill was introduced in the Senate of the United States...
41. lappuse - Commission has said: Defective foundations may exist far below the base of the levee in strata of sand through which the water percolates, and when the head of water in the river becomes sufficiently great a break through the surface soil occurs and the result is a sand boil which may cause the levee to collapse with little or no warning.
173. lappuse - Congress has the light to know what is going to be done and what it is going to cost?