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COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE.
UNITED STATES SENATE

SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. R. 14777

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTROL OF THE FLOODS OF THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND OF THE SACRAMENTO RIVER,
CALIFORNIA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

AND

S. 5736

A BILL TO PROMOTE INTERSTATE COMMERCE, AGRICULTURE, AND
THE GENERAL WELFARE BY PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
AND CONTROL OF WATERWAYS AND WATER RESOURCES, FOR WATER
CONSERVATION, FOR FLOOD CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND PROTEC-
TION; FOR THE APPLICATION OF FLOOD WATERS TO BENEFICIAL
USES; AND FOR COOPERATION IN SUCH WORK WITH STATES
AND OTHER AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
TOGETHER WITH

HEARINGS, REPORTS, AND DOCUMENTS OF PRECEDING CONGRESSES

Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1917

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RIVER REGULATION, FLOOD CONTROL, AND WATER CONSERVA-
TION AND UTILIZATION.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1916.

UNITED STATES SENATE,
COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE,
Washington, D. C.

The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m. in the committee room, Capitol, pursuant to call, Senator Duncan U. Fletcher presiding. Present: Senators Fletcher (chairman), Vardaman, Kirby, Shields, Martin, Sherman, Watson, Kenyon, Jones, Nelson, and Harding. The committee proceeded to consider the bill (H. R. 14777), "An act to provide for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River and of the Sacramento River, Cal., and for other purposes," which is as follows:

[H. R. 14777, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session.]

AN ACT To provide for the control of the floods of the Mississippi River and the Sacramento River, California, and for other purposes,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for controlling the floods of the Mississippi River and continuing its improvement from the Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River the Secretary of War is hereby empowered, authorized, and directed to carry on continuously, by hired labor or otherwise, the plans of the Mississippi River Commission heretofore or hereafter adopted, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, not to exceed in the aggregate $45,000,000: Provided, That not more than $10,000,000 shall be expended therefor during any one fiscal year.

(a) All money appropriated under authority of this section shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River Commission as approved by the Chief of Engineers, for controlling the floods and for the general improvement of the Mississippi River, and for surveys, including the survey from the Head of the Passes to the headwaters of the river, and a survey of the Atchafalaya Outlet so far as may be necessary to determine the cost of protecting its basin from the flood waters of the Mississippi River either by its divorcement from the Mississippi River or by other means, and for salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission.

(b) That no money appropriated under authority of this section shall be expended in the construction or repair of any levee unless and until assurances have been given satisfactory to the commission that local interests protested thereby will contribute for such construction and repair a sum which the commission shall determine to be just and equitable but which shall be not less than one-half of such sum as may have been allotted by the commission for such work: Provided, That such contributions shall be expended under the direction of the commission, or in such manner as it may require or approve, but no contribution made by any State or levee district shall be expended in any other State or levee district except with the approval of the authorities of the State or district so contributing.

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