Great Lakes--St. Lawrence Basin: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S.J. Res. 104 ...Considers (79) S.J. Res. 104. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Federation approval Association Atlantic benefit boundary waters Buffalo bushels Canada Canadian Canal cargo cents per 100 Chairman Chamber of Commerce channel Chicago coal Commission committee construction cost Detroit domestic Duluth economic electric Engineers estimated executive agreement export facilities favor Federation of Labor freight Government grain Harbors hydroelectric power important interests International Joint Commission International Rapids section Joint Resolution kilowatt-hours kilowatts Lakes ports Lakes-St Lawrence power Lawrence project Lawrence River Lawrence seaway Lawrence waterway legislation ment miles Milwaukee Montreal navigation Niagara Niagara River ocean Ontario operation Orleans Panama Canal percent power authority power development power project present President production proposed rail railroads rates represent route savings seaway and power Senator HATCH Senator LA FOLLETTE Senator WHITE ships statement subcommittee tion tonnage tons trade traffic transportation Treaty of 1909 United United States Senate vessels Welland Canal York
Popular passages
Page 11 - India, being equally desirous to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise...
Page 424 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, * * * enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power.
Page 422 - ... affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters on the other side of the line, shall be made except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective jurisdictions and with the approval, as hereinafter provided, of a joint commission, to be known as the International Joint Commission.
Page 16 - The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by, and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty.
Page 671 - It is hereby declared to be the national transportation policy of the Congress to provide for fair and impartial regulation of all modes of transportation subject to the provisions of this Act, so administered as to recognize and preserve the inherent advantages of each...
Page 118 - Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my remarks in the Record...
Page 13 - The High Contracting Parties agree that, except in cases provided for by special agreement between them, they will not permit the construction or maintenance on their respective sides of the boundary of any remedial or protective works or any dams or other obstructions in waters flowing from boundary waters or in waters at a lower level than the boundary in rivers flowing a'cross the boundary...
Page 422 - It is agreed that, in addition to the uses, obstructions, and diversions heretofore permitted or hereafter provided for by special agreement between the Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line, affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters on the other side of the line, shall be made except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective jurisdictions...
Page 17 - On proceeding to the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty signed at Washington on January 11, 1909, between the United States and...
Page 14 - The commission shall make a joint report to both Governments in all cases in which all or a majority of the commissioners agree, and in case of disagreement the minority may make a joint report to both Governments or separate reports to their respective Governments. In case the commission is evenly divided upon any question or matter referred to it for report, separate reports shall be made by the commissioners on each side to their own Government.