Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriations, 1953, Hearings Before ... 82-2, on H.R. 72681952 - 1569 pages |
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... Indians , as the old saying goes . A lot of people refer to it as pork barrel . There is nothing pork barrel about flood - control legislation in our opinion , when we are paying back more than what you are putting into it , or the ...
... Indians , as the old saying goes . A lot of people refer to it as pork barrel . There is nothing pork barrel about flood - control legislation in our opinion , when we are paying back more than what you are putting into it , or the ...
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... Indians saw out there . Senator ELLENDER . General , would you be able to point out to us from your observation the area from which all of this water came ? General PICK . I will do that , sir . Mr. Chairman , this flood was caused by ...
... Indians saw out there . Senator ELLENDER . General , would you be able to point out to us from your observation the area from which all of this water came ? General PICK . I will do that , sir . Mr. Chairman , this flood was caused by ...
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... Indian Village to Morgan City along the levees . The channel now goes into Plaquemine lock . Indian Village is about where I am pointing . The new project which was authorized , I think , in the 1944 act , would bring it right up here ...
... Indian Village to Morgan City along the levees . The channel now goes into Plaquemine lock . Indian Village is about where I am pointing . The new project which was authorized , I think , in the 1944 act , would bring it right up here ...
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... Indian trader and have a estimated value of $ 11,765 and one is owned by an employee of the Fort Berthold Indian Agency and has an estimated value of $ 3,350 . CORP OF ENGINEER DETERMINATIONS Senator ECTON . Mr. Chairman , it seems to ...
... Indian trader and have a estimated value of $ 11,765 and one is owned by an employee of the Fort Berthold Indian Agency and has an estimated value of $ 3,350 . CORP OF ENGINEER DETERMINATIONS Senator ECTON . Mr. Chairman , it seems to ...
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... Indians . We are involved in fishing rights out there by a treaty of many years ago . Of course , those fishing rights with the Indians must be quieted - I guess that is the word . Chairman MCKELLAR . Off the record . ( There was a ...
... Indians . We are involved in fishing rights out there by a treaty of many years ago . Of course , those fishing rights with the Indians must be quieted - I guess that is the word . Chairman MCKELLAR . Off the record . ( There was a ...
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acres additional amount appropriation Arkansas River Army engineers authorized Basin budget estimate Bureau California Celilo Falls Chairman MCKELLAR channel Chief of Engineers CHORPENING Civil Functions Colonel PAULES Columbia River committee completed Congress construction Corps of Engineers cost County Creek Dalles Dam damage delay drainage dredging economic ERDAHL Federal Government feet FERINGA fiscal year 1953 fish fishery flood control flood-control projects Francis River funds going Hartwell Hartwell Dam House increase Indians industrial KENNETH MCKELLAR kilowatts land located lock and dam maintenance miles million Mississippi River Missouri navigation Northwest operation percent planning plant present record reduction referred to follows Representative requested Reservoir river and harbor Sacramento San Joaquin River schedule Senator CAIN Senator CORDON Senator ELLENDER Senator KNOWLAND Senator MCCLELLAN Senator ROBERTSON Senator STENNIS statement tion tribes United United States Senate Valley Washington Yakima
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Page 420 - Are there any further questions? If not, thank you very much, gentlemen, for all of your appearances here today.
Page 575 - The exclusive right of taking fish in all the streams, where running through or bordering said reservation, is further secured to said confederated tribes and bands of Indians, as also the right of taking fish at all usual and accustomed places, in common with the citizens of the Territory...
Page 762 - ... (b) Tolls shall be prescribed at a rate or rates calculated to cover, as nearly as practicable, all costs of maintaining and operating the Panama Canal, together with the facilities and appurtenances related thereto, including interest and depreciation, and an appropriate share of the net costs of operation of the agency known as the Canal Zone Government.
Page 206 - Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring'), That the Senate advise and consent to the...
Page 206 - President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as •expressed in...
Page 206 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same -with my hand. Done at the City of Washington, this 10th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty-seventh.
Page 203 - Navajo tribe of Indians, on the part of said Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them which Treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: Articles of a Treaty...
Page 370 - This contract obligates the districts and the city to operate their existing storage facilities in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army In order to obtain immediately a degree of control over Tuolumne River floods.
Page 416 - There was a right outside of those boundaries reserved " in common with citizens of the Territory." As a mere right, it was not exclusive in the Indians. Citizens might share it, but the Indians were secured in its enjoyment by a special provision of means for Its exercise. They were given
Page 690 - I am discussing chiefly the area designated, I desire to stress the fact that there is complete unanimity among all the interests throughout the entire basin, and an intense desire for an immediate program of construction, regardless of location. We feel there is a great need for action now...