Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bill

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Page 65 - France, negotiated another agreement in 1818 that fixed the 49th parallel as the boundary between Canada and the United States, from the Lake of the Woods — which lies in Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota — to the Rocky Mountains.
Page 19 - I would like to insert in the record at this point. Mr. BLOOM. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The matter referred to is as follows:) For the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism to be held in the United States in 1915, $40,000, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and requested to extend an invitation to the governments of the world...
Page 14 - The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their necessary expenses during such sessions not to exceed ten dollars per day for the judge and five dollars per day for the district attorney.
Page 44 - Federal laws for the protection and preservation of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 35 - ... 3. The best and most feasible mode of so regulating the use of the waters of said river as to secure to each country concerned and to its inhabitants their legal and equitable rights and interests in said waters.
Page 34 - After the preamble he provides that the commission for the study of the questions connected with the equitable distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande between the...
Page 40 - Although this power of changing the common-law rule as to streams within its dominion undoubtedly belongs to each State, yet two limitations must be recognized : First, that in the absence of specific authority from Congress a State can not by its legislation destroy...
Page 74 - Senator? Mr. STANLEY. No. Mr. GROVER. The next subdivision includes the Milk and St. Mary item and refers to the collection of information relating to the division of the waters of the Milk and St. Mary Rivers between the two countries for purposes of irrigation, that division having been made under an order of the International Joint Commission as an operating proposition. That is, year after year the water is measured and divided between the two countries in accordance with the decree of the Commission.
Page 41 - any disagreement " or " differences " between the two countries. It is commonly called " Commission for the Equitable Distribution of the Waters of the Rio Grande " — the boundary for about 1,300 miles between these two nations. Its chief functions are " to study the questions in connection with the distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande," for the purpose of devising the best mode of controlling and conserving the waters of the Rio Grande...
Page 24 - It is one of the most important things that can be done, for their health, and I would like to see it further developed.

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