Hearings Before the Committee on Roads, House of Representatives ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - Roads |
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... completed , realizing that some States already had improved a considerable road mileage and there- fore would be entitled to an early extension of the system . NOT AN UNEQUAL BURDEN TO STATES The opposition to the continuation of this ...
... completed , realizing that some States already had improved a considerable road mileage and there- fore would be entitled to an early extension of the system . NOT AN UNEQUAL BURDEN TO STATES The opposition to the continuation of this ...
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... completed is certainly er- roneous . Seventy - nine thousand and twenty - four miles of the roads represent the mileage under the Federal - aid system that has not yet been touched either by the States or by the 26 ROADS.
... completed is certainly er- roneous . Seventy - nine thousand and twenty - four miles of the roads represent the mileage under the Federal - aid system that has not yet been touched either by the States or by the 26 ROADS.
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... completed the statement which I wish to make . I see the time is up , so I do not wish to impose upon the committee further this morning . Mr. ROBSION . You will include that list in the record , will you ? Mr. WHITE . I would like to ...
... completed the statement which I wish to make . I see the time is up , so I do not wish to impose upon the committee further this morning . Mr. ROBSION . You will include that list in the record , will you ? Mr. WHITE . I would like to ...
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... completed and it is necessary to add more roads , the secondary roads , it is possible then that a gas tax might be intro- duced in Illinois . We have received in the way of Federal aid in the last two years- and I am familiar only with ...
... completed and it is necessary to add more roads , the secondary roads , it is possible then that a gas tax might be intro- duced in Illinois . We have received in the way of Federal aid in the last two years- and I am familiar only with ...
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... completed than in any other prior year , a total of 11,328 miles of all types . This , with the mileage since completed , brings the total completed to the 1st of February up to 52,401 miles . At the same time , February 1 , the highway ...
... completed than in any other prior year , a total of 11,328 miles of all types . This , with the mileage since completed , brings the total completed to the 1st of February up to 52,401 miles . At the same time , February 1 , the highway ...
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Page 82 - One-third in the ratio which the area of each State bears to the total area of all the States; one-third in the ratio which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States...
Page 7 - Jones (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. . The committee will please come to order. We have met this morning for the purpose of...
Page 40 - July 11, 1916, and of section 23 of the Federal highway act of November 9, 1921, and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, shall be considered available for the purpose of discharging the obligations created...
Page 29 - Now, if I can answer any questions, I will be glad to do so. Mr.
Page 5 - States; one-third in the ratio which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States, as shown by the latest available Federal census; one-third...
Page 5 - Thus, the provision of the Washington statute is a regulation, not of the use of its own highways, but of interstate commerce. Its effect upon such commerce is not merely to burden but to obstruct it. Such state action is forbidden by the Commerce Clause. It also defeats the purpose of Congress expressed in the legislation giving federal aid for the construction of interstate highways.
Page 69 - Chairman, because we published that information in the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads for the fiscal year 1925.
Page 2 - Office and Post Roads, to make inquiry into the subject of federal aid in the construction of post roads and report at the earliest practicable date...