The Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall cause to be prepared within eighteen months from the passage of this act, at the cost of said the Sanitary District of Chicago, plans and specifications for and an estimate of the reasonable cost of constructing such compensating and/or regulating works. Such plans, specifications, and estimated cost shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War.

Such works shall be designed and built as speedily as is practicable under the direction of the Secretary of War or jointly by the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and the money furnished by the Sanitary District of Chicago, as hereinbefore provided, shall be applied and used in payment for the same.

The said the Sanitary District of Chicago, and/or any other agency of the State of Illinois upon which the functions now performed by said the Sanitary District of Chicago may hereafter devolve, is hereby prohibited from withdrawing from Lake Michigan a greater amount of water per second than is above specified, regardless of any increase in the population of said the Sanitary District of Chicago. The said the Sanitary District of Chicago is required to proceed immediately with the installation of sewage purification works to care for the population of said the Sanitary District of Chicago, in order that any effluent discharge into said Illinois waterway or into the Des Plaines or Illinois Rivers through the Chicago and Calumet Rivers or through any artificial channel of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall not be or become a nuisance or menace to the health of any of the people of the United States, and shall not be destructive of the fish life of said river nor injure nor impair the fish industry of said river as the same was conducted prior to the introduction of said sewage into said river, said sewage disposal plants to be completed and in operation within ten years from the passage of this act, or within such extension of time not to exceed an additional five years as may be granted by the Secretary of War.

ILLINOIS RIVER WATERWAY COMMISSION.

SEC. 2. That a commission to be known as the Illinois River Waterway Commission, consisting of five members to be appointed by the President of the United States, is hereby created and authorized. Two members of this commission shall be selected from the active or retired list of the Engineer Corps of the Army, and three from civil life, two of whom shall be expert hydraulic engineers. The members selected from civil life shall not be residents of the State of Illinois, nor shall they have been at any time employed by the Sanitary District of Chicago.

Said commission shall investigate and determine claims for damages heretofore sustained and heretofore to be sustained by landowners in the Illinois River Valley occasioned by the diversion of water from Lake Michigan and the discharge of the same, through the Sanitary District Channel and the Des Plaines River, into the Illinois River.

In order to give said commission jurisdiction of any claim for damages, the claimant and the Sanitary District of Chicago shall each agree to be bound by the findings of said commission.

Said commission shall complete its investigations within three months after the passage of this act, or within such extension of time not to exceed an additional three months as may be granted by the Secretary of War. After the completion of said investigation said commission shall make a report of the awards of damages it may make, giving the name and post office address of each claimant and the amount of damages, if. any, awarded to each claimant, one copy of said report to be certified by said commission to the Secretary of War and one copy of said report to be certified to the president of the board of trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago, and the provisions of this bill in so far as they relate to the said diversion of water at Chicago from the Great Lakes shall not take effect until said Illinois River Waterway Commission shall have reported to the President of the United States that the Sanitary District of Chicago has agreed to the jurisdiction of said Illinois River Waterway Commission in all cases and that all of such awards have been fully paid by the Sanitary District of Chicago, and upon receipt of said report the Secretary of War shall issue an order declaring the provisions of this act relating to and permitting said diversion of water to be in full force and effect and thereupon the Illinois River Waterway Commission shall be dissolved.

The said commission may employ such clerical help as it may deem necessary and shall be authorized to administer oaths to witnesses who may appear before it. All expenses of this commission and the compensation of its members shall be paid by the Sanitary District of Chicago. Members of the commission appointed from the active list of the Engineer Corps of the Army shall receive the pay and compensation now allowed them by law, and any member appointed from the retired list shall receive the same pay and compensation as he would receive if on the active list. The compensation of the members of the commission appointed from civil life shall be fixed by the Secretary of War.

SEC. 3. Both the claimant and the Sanitary District of Chicago shall have the right to be represented before the commission by agent or attorney. But no agent or attorney or other person shal1 demand or receive a larger compensation for his services than 10 per centum of the amount that shall be allowed any claimant on his claim by the commission; and any agent, attorney, or other person who shall for said service directly or indirectly receive or retain any greater fee for his services or instrumentality in presenting a claim before the said commission than is provided in this section, or who shall wrongfully withhold from said claimant any part of any award in excess of the fee provided for herein, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall for every such offense be fined not exceeding $1,000, or imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 4. The Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, is hereby vested with jurisdiction and authority over the construction of levees and other works for the prevention and control of floods in the Illinois River from its mouth to the mouth of the Des Plaines River and all such works shall hereafter be located and built in accordance with such plans and specifications as he may formulate or approve, and he is also authorized to make such regulations as he may deem necessary to control the diversion of water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois River as provided in this act.

The Secretary of War is authorized to allot from any funds hereafter appropriated by Congress for controlling the floods of the Mississippi River and continuing its improvement from the Head of Passes to Rock Island, Illinois, such sums of money as he may deem equitable for the construction of flood control works upon any part of the Illinois River between its mouth and the mouth of the Des Plaines River and for levees upon any part of said river between its mouth and the Des Plaines River in such manner as in his opinion shall best improve navigation and promote the interest of commerce and protect said levees against the diversion of waters from the lakes as authorized in this bill, at all stages of the river including such changes and alterations in said levees as may be made necessary by the diversion of water from the Great Lakes authorized by this act. All moneys so allotted to be expended under the supervision of the Chief of Engineers. In allotting moneys for said purpose said Chief of Engineers shall at all times take into consideration the diversion of waters from the lakes authorized herein; the said diversion of waters from the Great Lakes to be in such amount only as will provide for the navigation contemplated in this act and for the sewage dilution contemplated in this act at no time, however, to exceed 10,000 cubic feet per second.

[MICHAELSON BILL.]

[H. R. 6873, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session.]

A BILL To limit the amount of water which may be withdrawn from Lake Michigan by the Sanitary District of Chicago, giving authority therefor, and fixing the conditions of such withdrawal. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Sanitary District of Chicago, a municipal corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Illinois, or its legal successor, be, and the same is hereby authorized to withdraw from Lake Michigan, through the Chicago and Calumet Rivers, and through artificial channels which have been heretofore or may hereafter be constructed, an amount not to exceed an average of ten thousand cubic feet of water per second during each calendar year, for the purpose of diverting sewage and drainage from Lake Michigan and keeping the waters at the south end of said lake,

which is the source of the water supply of the people, pure and free from pollution.

The amount of water hereby authorized to be withdrawn shall be inclusive of and not in addition to the amount of water which has been heretofore or is now being withdrawn from Lake Michigan by the said the Sanitary District of Chicago. The condition on which such withdrawal is hereby authorized is that the said the Sanitary District of Chicago shall pay into the Treasury of the United States, as and when directed by the Secretary of War, such sum or sums of money as may be estimated by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, as hereinafter provided, to be the reasonable cost of constructing, compensating, and/or regulating works in the Saint Clair River, and/or in the Niagara River, and/or in the Saint Lawrence River at or above Rapide Plat, to restore and maintain the water levels in said Great Lakes and their appurtenant rivers, as full and complete compensation for any lowering of water levels of the Great Lakes system resulting from such withdrawal at Chicago.

That the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army shall cause to be prepared plans and specifications for and an estimate of the reasonable cost of constructing such compensating and/or regulating works. Said project, plans, specifications, and estimated cost shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War and also subject to the approval of any other officer of the United States or commission or tribunal whose approval is required under acts of Congress heretofore passed or under any treaty or treaties now existing to which the United States is a party.

Such works shall be designed and built, as speedily as is practicable, under the direction of the Secretary of War or jointly by the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and the money furnished by the Sanitary District of Chicago, as hereinbefore provided, shall be applied and used in payment for the same.

SEC. 2. That the said the Sanitary District of Chicago, and 'or any other agency of the State upon which the functions now performed by said the Sanitary District of Chicago may hereafter devolve, is hereby prohibited from withdrawing from Lake Michigan a greater average amount of water than is above specified, regardless of any increase in the population of said the Sanitary District of Chicago. The said the Sanitary District of Chicago is required to proceed immediately with the installation of sewage purification works to care for any excess population of said the Sanitary District of Chicago over and above 3,000,000 people, in order that any effluent discharged into the Des Plaines or Illinois River through the Chicago and Calumet Rivers or through any artificial channel of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall not be or become a nuisance or menace to the health of any of the people of the United States.

[MADDEN BILL.]

[H. R. 7044, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session.]

A BILL To provide for the diversion or withdrawal of water from Lake Michigan by the Sanitary District of Chicago, and fixing the maximum amount of such diversion or withdrawal, and to provide for the preservation of and compensation for diminishing levels of Lake Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, due to such diversion or withdrawal.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Sanitary District of Chicago (a municipal corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois), or its legal successor, is hereby authorized to withdraw from Lake Michigan, through the Chicago and Calumet Rivers, and through artificial channels which have been heretofore or may hereafter be constructed, an amount not to exceed an average of ten thousand cubic feet of water per second per day.

SEC. 2. The amount of water hereby authorized to be withdrawn shall be inclusive of, and not in addition to the amount of water which has been heretofore, or is now, being withdrawn from Lake Michigan by the said Sanitary District of Chicago for the purpose of diverting sewage and drainage from Lake Michigan and keeping the waters at the south end of said lake free from pollution.

SEC. 3. The Sanitary District of Chicago shall pay into the Treasury of the United States, as and when directed by the Secretary of War, such sum or sums of money as may be estimated by the said Chief of Engineers as hereinafter provided, to be its reasonable share of the cost of constructing, compensating, and/or regulating works in the Saint Clair River and/or in the Niagara River and/or in the Saint Lawrence River at or above Rapide Plat, to compensate and control the water levels in said Great Lakes and their appurtenant rivers, as full and complete compensation for any lowering of water levels of the Great Lakes system resulting, or to result, from such withdrawal at Chicago.

The said Chief of Engineers shall cause to be prepared, as soon after the passage of this act as is practicable, not, however, to exceed eighteen months, at the cost of said the Sanitary District. of Chicago, plans and specifications for, and an estimate of the reasonable cost of constructing such compensating and/or regulating works. Such plans, specifications, and estimated cost shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War.

Such works shall be designed and built as speedily as is practicable under the direction of the Secretary of War, or jointly by the United States and the Dominion of Canada, and the money furnished by the Sanitary District of Chicago, as hereinbefore provided, shall equal the total cost of such work and shall be applied and used in payment for the same.

SEC. 4. The said Sanitary District of Chicago is required to continue with all possible speed the installation, operation, and main