RIVERS AND HARBORS HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 11781 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, 111747 MAY 2 TO MAY 19, 1930 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1930 Statement of- CONTENTS Beach, Maj. Gen. Lansing H. (retired), formerly Chief of Engineers, Bingham, Hon. Hiram, Senator from the State of Connecticut__ Brown, Maj. Gen. Lytle, Chief of Engineers, War Department- Call, George C., president Call Bond & Mortgage Co., Sioux City, Campbell, Hon. Ed. H., Representative in Congress from the State of Carlstrom, Hon. Oscar E., attorney general of the State of Illinois_- Childe, C. E., manager transportation bureau of the Omaha Chamber Deakyne, Brig. Gen. Herbert, member Board of Engineers for Rivers Dempsey, Hon. S. Wallace, Representative in Congress from the State Deneen, Hon. Charles S., Senator from the State of Illinois. Fletcher, Senator Duncan U., Senator from the State of Florida- Garner, Hon. John N., Representative in Congress from the State of Page 169 258 122 270 173 218 259 200 Gillett, Hon. Frederick H., Senator from the State of Massachusetts. - 246 226 Hawes, Hon. Harry B., Senator from the State of Missouri. 225 183 242 118 Kunze, Hon. Wm. F., mayor city of Minneapolis, Minn. - Macleay, Lachlan, secretary Mississippi Valley Association, St. McMaster, Hon. Wm. H., Senator from the State of South Dakota Miller, George J., executive secretary Missouri River Navigation Mueller, Herman, traffic director St. Paul Association of Commerce, Newton, C. A., representative Mississippi Valley Association_ Nolan, Hon. W. I., Representative in Congress from the State of Oughterson, T. T., attorney for board of commissioners, St. Lucie Owen, Hon. Ruth Bryan, Representative in Congress from the Stab Reeves, Rear Admiral Joseph Mason, United States Navy, member 236 Schall, Hon. Thomas D., Senator from the State of Minnesota Shipstead, Hon. Henrik, Senator from the State of Minnesota. Swanson, Hon. Claude A., Senator from the State of Virginia. Swing, Hon. Philip D., Representative in Congress from the State of Townsend, Frank B., Minneapolis, Minn. Trammell, Hon. Park, Senator from the State of Florida- Treadway, Hon. Allen T., Representative in Congress from the State Vandenberg, Hon. Arthur H., Senator from the State of Michigan__ Walcott, Hon. Frederick C., Senator from the State of Connecticut__ Walsh, Hon. David I., Senator from the State of Massachusetts. - - Walsh, Hon. Thomas J., Senator from the State of Montana__ Warner, Hon. Joseph E., attorney general of the State of Massa- Wiprud, A. C., counsel Upper Mississippi Barge Line Co.. 211 RIVERS AND HARBORS FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1930 UNITED STATES SENATE, The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 o'clock a. m. in the committee room, Capitol, Senator Hiram W. Johnson presiding. Present: Senators Johnson (chairman), Jones, McNary, Nye, Vandenberg, Deneen, Allen, Ransdell, Sheppard, Simmons, Harris, and Copeland. The CHAIRMAN. We have met this morning for the purpose of considering the rivers and harbors bill, H. R. 11781, that is now before us, and it was the determination of the committee at a previous gathering that we would first consider the controverted items relating to the Great Lakes waterways. In pursuance to the request of the committee, Generals Brown and Deakyne were asked to be here, and they very kindly come. (The committee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of H. R. 11781, which is here printed in full, as follows:) [H. R. 11781, Seventy-first Congress, second session] AN ACT Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following works of improvement are hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans recommended in the reports hereinafter designated. Fall River Harbor, Massachusetts, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 158, Seventy-first Congress, second session. Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts: The Chief of Engineers is hereby authorized to dredge a channel twenty-two feet deep and three hundred feet wide from deep water west of Bass Point, Nahant, to a turning basin five hnudred and fifty feet wide at the head of the harbor, and to straighten the curve in the approach to the turning basis: Provided, That before prosecuting this work, local interests shall give assurances satisfactory to the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War that they will dredge and maintain a suitable channel of twenty-two-foot depth, extending a distance of four thousand eight hundred feet westerly from the inner end of the Federal improvement. The amount hereby authorized to be expended upon the said project shall not exceed the sum of $615,500. Salem Harbor, Massachusetts, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 112, Seventieth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. Dorchester Bay and Neponset River, Massachusetts, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 147, Seventieth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 182, Seventieth Congress, first session. New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts, in accordance with the report of the Chief of Engineers as submitted in House Document Numbered 348, Seventy-first 1 |