Greal Lakes- St. Lawrence Basin. Hearings ... on H.J. Res. 271

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Página 491 - And yet this region has no sea-coast, touches no ocean anywhere. As part of one Nation, its people now find, and may forever find, their way to Europe by New York, to South America and Africa by New Orleans, and to Asia by San Francisco. But separate our common country into two nations, as designed by the present Rebellion, and every man of this great interior region is thereby cut off" from some one or more of these outlets, not, perhaps, by a physical barrier, but by embarrassing and onerous trade...
Página 154 - That no tolls or operating charges whatever shall be levied upon or collected from any vessel, dredge, or other water craft for passing through any lock, canal, canalized river, or other work for the use and benefit of navigation, now belonging to the United States or that may be hereafter acquired or constructed...
Página 208 - Whenever, in the judgment of the Commission, the development of any water resources for public purposes should be undertaken by the United States itself, the Commission shall not approve any application for any project affecting such development...
Página 213 - Navigable waters means those parts of streams or other bodies of water over which Congress has jurisdiction under its authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states...
Página 159 - Majesty and to the citizens of the United States, subject to any laws and regulations of either country within its own territory, not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation.
Página 202 - Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of water-power development, and for other beneficial public uses, including recreational purposes...
Página 127 - Ocean,' and for the generating of electric energy as a means of financing, aiding, and assisting such undertaking, the Agreement made by and between the Governments of the United States and Canada, published in House Document No. 153, Seventy-seventh Congress, first session, providing for the construction of dams and power works in the International Rapids Section of the St. Lawrence River, and the completion of the St. Lawrence...
Página 491 - These outlets, east, west, and south, are indispensable to the well-being of the people inhabiting, and to inhabit, this vast interior region. Which of the three may be the best is no proper question. All are better than either; and all. of right, belong to that people, and to their successors forever. True to themselves, they will not ask where a line of separation shall be, but will vow, rather, that there shall be no such line.
Página 54 - Europe from 1950-55 of somewhere around 20 million tons. It is not possible to estimate with any degree of precision the export volume following 1955, due to the number of unpredictable elements in the situation The degree to which grain will be made available from eastern Europe, the success of the agricultural rehabilitation programs in...
Página 501 - STATEMENT OF HON. LOUIS C. RABAUT, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MICHIGAN Mr. RABAUT. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to express my views in behalf of my bill, HR 900.

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