Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan. Hearings ... 85-2 ... July 28-29, August 7, 19581958 - 407 pages |
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85th Congress additional diversion amount of water Army attorney Boundary Waters Treaty Chairman channels Chicago diversion Chicago Sanitary District city of Chicago Colonel NAUMAN Columbia River commerce Committee on Public Congress Corps of Engineers cubic feet decree District of Chicago District of Greater diversion at Chicago diversion of 1,000 diversion of water divert water domestic pumpage effect effluent Federal feet per second flow Greater Chicago HONECK Illinois River Illinois Waterway inch increase in diversion increased diversion interests International Joint Commission international law lake levels Lake Michigan Lawrence River Lawrence seaway legislation loss Metropolitan Sanitary District million Mississippi River navigation Niagara objection Ohio Ontario plants port President problem purposes question record reference Secretary Senator DOUGLAS Senator KERR Senator LAUSCHE Senator NEUBERGER Senator WILEY sewage statement subcommittee Supreme Court tion United States Senate VANIK vetoed water diversion water from Lake water levels watershed Wisconsin
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Page 162 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 295 - EXCHANGE. On proceeding to the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty signed at Washington on January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain, relating to...
Page 202 - ... 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 across the boundary, the effect of which is to raise the natural level of waters on the other side of the boundary, unless the construction or maintenance thereof is approved by the aforesaid International Joint Commission.
Page 136 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 162 - ... all the navigable waters of said state shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said state as to all other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost or toll therefor.
Page 88 - The point is that navigable waters are subject to national planning and control in the broad regulation of commerce granted the Federal Government. The license conditions to which objection is made have an obvious relationship to the exercise of the commerce power. Even if there were no such relationship the plenary power of Congress over navigable waters would empower it to deny the privilege of constructing an obstruction in those waters.
Page 78 - The following order of precedence shall be observed among the various uses enumerated hereinafter for these waters, and no use shall be permitted which tends materially to conflict with or restrain any other use which is given preference over it in this order of precedence: 1 . Uses for domestic and sanitary purposes. 2. Uses for navigation, including the service of canals for the purposes of navigation. 3. Uses for power and for irrigation purposes.
Page 78 - ... International Joint Commission shall have jurisdiction over and shall pass upon all cases involving the use or obstruction or diversion of the waters with respect to which under Articles III and IV of this treaty the approval of this Commission is required, and in passing upon such cases the Commission shall be governed by the following rules or principles which are adopted by the High Contracting Parties for this purpose : The High Contracting Parties shall have, each on its own side of the...
Page 68 - For the purposes of this treaty boundary waters are defined as the waters from main shore to main shore of the lakes and rivers and connecting waterways, or the portions thereof, along which the international boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada passes...
Page 126 - Each of the high contracting parties reserves to itself or to the several State governments on the one side and the Dominion or Provincial Governments on the other as the case may be, subject to any treaty provisions now existing with respect thereto, the exclusive jurisdiction and control over the use and diversion, whether temporary or permanent, of all waters on its own side of tlio line which in their natural channels would flow across the boundary...