Development of Hydroelectric Energy at Great Falls: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, First [-second] Session, on H. R. 4979. May 9.10,13.15,16.22,23,27,31 and June 3 and 5, 1924 |
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Page 24 - Mr. Chairman, I do not want to take up too much time. I presume Mr.
Page 6 - ... he Is entitled to such addition as will produce the full equivalent of that value paid contemporaneously with the taking. Interest at a proper rate is a good measure by which to ascertain the amount so to be added.
Page 1 - SIR : The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have the honor to submit the following on Senate bill 4325, Seventy-first Congress, second session, entitled "A bill to amend subchapter 5 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia by adding thereto a.
Page 9 - The Government had dominion over the water power of the rapids and falls and cannot be required to pay any hypothetical additional value to a riparian owner who had no right to appropriate the current to his own commercial use.
Page 9 - It is, at best, not clear how the Chaudler-Dunbar Co. can be heard to object to the selling of any excess of water power which may result from the construction of such controlling or remedial works as shall be found advisable for the Improvement of navigation. Inasmuch as it had no property right In the river which had been "taken.
Page 10 - Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 421 : "Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the constitution, are constitutional.
Page 201 - River to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
Page 73 - If the primary purpose is legitimate, we can see no sound objection to leasing any excess of power over the needs of the Government. The practice is not unusual in respect to similar public works constructed by State governments.
Page 8 - ' acquisition of the town site was so closely connected with the acquisition of the district to be flooded and so necessary to the carrying out of the project that the public use of the reservoir covered the taking of the town site.
Page 7 - In the opinion of the legislature and the supreme court of Utah the public welfare of that state demands that aerial lines between the mines upon its mountain sides and the railways in the valleys below should not be made impossible by the refusal of a private owner to sell the right to cross his land. The Constitution of the United States does not require us to say that they are wrong.