Good Roads: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Federal Aid in the Construction of Post Roads, January 21, February 10, 11, 18, 1913 ; Part I. (Second Print).U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - 232 páginas |
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... REPRESENTATIVES . D. W. SHACKLEFORD , Vice Chairman . GORDON LEE . D. J. MCGILLICUDDY . M. B. MADDEN . R. W. AUSTIN . A. W. PRESCOTT , Secretary . J. E. PENNYBACKER , Statistician . RICHARD B. NIXON , Disbursing Officer . 2 TABLE OF ...
... REPRESENTATIVES . D. W. SHACKLEFORD , Vice Chairman . GORDON LEE . D. J. MCGILLICUDDY . M. B. MADDEN . R. W. AUSTIN . A. W. PRESCOTT , Secretary . J. E. PENNYBACKER , Statistician . RICHARD B. NIXON , Disbursing Officer . 2 TABLE OF ...
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... Representatives Dorsey W. Shackle- ford , Gordon Lee , and Martin B. Madden . After an introductory statement by the chairman explaining the appointment and purpose of the joint committee , Mr. Alfred Noble , of New York , was called ...
... Representatives Dorsey W. Shackle- ford , Gordon Lee , and Martin B. Madden . After an introductory statement by the chairman explaining the appointment and purpose of the joint committee , Mr. Alfred Noble , of New York , was called ...
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... representatives would participate in either the ex- penditure of money or the maintenance of roads ? Mr. NOBLE . The ... representative at any rate ought to have the power of veto on the expenditures of Federal money if he saw cause to ...
... representatives would participate in either the ex- penditure of money or the maintenance of roads ? Mr. NOBLE . The ... representative at any rate ought to have the power of veto on the expenditures of Federal money if he saw cause to ...
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... representatives will no longer have control . The CHAIRMAN . How is that ? That the Federal Government would have the control ? Mr. NOBLE . I say , when the Congress no longer extends aid to the State the department of the Government ...
... representatives will no longer have control . The CHAIRMAN . How is that ? That the Federal Government would have the control ? Mr. NOBLE . I say , when the Congress no longer extends aid to the State the department of the Government ...
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... representative before national aid was extended . Mr. MADDEN . Do you believe that the State should have exclusive jurisdiction over the character of a road that would be built to which Federal aid would be granted ? Mr. NOBLE . I do ...
... representative before national aid was extended . Mr. MADDEN . Do you believe that the State should have exclusive jurisdiction over the character of a road that would be built to which Federal aid would be granted ? Mr. NOBLE . I do ...
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aid is given Alabama Good Road American Automobile Association amount appropriated amount of money AUSTIN automobile believe bond issue build roads built cent CHAIRMAN character of roads cities committee Congress construction and maintenance construction or maintenance contribute COOLEY cooperation cost CRAFT DIEHL dirt road district engineer ENOS eral ernment expended expenditure farmers favor Federal aid Federal authorities Federal Government Federal highway Federal road Federal supervision FINLEY funds give good-roads highway commission highway department highway engineer improvement Iowa Jefferson County jointly for construction KENYON legislature Lowe macadam MADDEN maintain ment mileage miles of road National Government national highways national roads O'NEILL post roads proposition Public Roads question railroad road building road construction routes rural rural free delivery Senator GRONNA Senator SWANSON struction TERRY tion town township traffic trunk lines United Winston County workable for Federal York
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Página 172 - Congress to establish and maintain such highways and bridges, it would be without authority to regulate one of the most important adjuncts of commerce. This power in former times was exerted to a very limited extent, the Cumberland or National road being the most notable instance. Its exertion was but little called for, as commerce was then mostly conducted by water, and many of our statesmen entertained doubts as to the existence of the power to establish ways of communication by land.
Página 172 - The power to construct, or to authorize individuals or corporations to construct, national highways and bridges from State to State is essential to the complete control and regulation of interstate commerce. Without authority in Congress to establish and maintain such highways and bridges, it would be without authority to regulate one of the most important adjuncts of commerce.
Página 172 - It can not at the present day be doubted that Congress, under the power to regulate commerce among the several States, as well as to provide for postal accommodations and military exigencies, had authority to pass these laws.
Página 171 - States includes the control of the navigable waters of the United States so far as may be necessary to insure their free navigation ; and by 'navigable waters of the United States' are mcaut such as are navigable in fact, and which by themselves, or their connection with other waters, form a continuous channel for commerce with foreign countries or among the States." The Delaware River, opposite the city of Philadelphia, is a part of such navigable waters of the United States.
Página 172 - The act of Congress now in question declares the construction of the North River Bridge between the States of New York and New Jersey to be " in order to facilitate interstate commerce " ; and it makes due provision for the condemnation of lands for the construction and maintenance of the bridge and its approaches, and for just compensation to the owners, which has been accordingly awarded to the plaintiff in error. In the light of the foregoing principles and authorities, the objection made to the...
Página 172 - And whenever it becomes necessary, for the accomplishment of any object within the authority of Congress, to exercise the right of eminent domain and take private lands, making just compensation to the owners, Congress may do this with or without a concurrent act of the State in which the lands lie.
Página 171 - That any bridge built in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be a lawful structure and shall be recognized and known as a post route, upon which no higher charge shall be made for the transmission over the same of the mails, the troops, and the munitions of war of the United States than the rate per mile paid for the transportation over any railroad, street railway, or public highway leading to said bridge...
Página 171 - The Congress of the United States, being empowered by the Constitution to regulate commerce among the several States and to pass all laws necessary or proper for carrying into execution any of the powers specifically conferred, may make use of any appropriate means for this end. As said by Chief Justice Marshall, "The power of creating a corporation, though appertaining to sovereignty, is not, like the power of making war, or...
Página 44 - ... the Union," vital both to the government and to individuals. But there was also the problem, lately acute, as to whether Congress had simply the power "to designate, or point out, what roads shall be mail roads, and the right of passage or way along them when so designated...
Página 44 - I at the same time intimated my belief that the right to make appropriations for such as were of a national character had been so generally acted upon and so long acquiesced in by the Federal and State Governments and the constituents of each as to justify its exercise on the ground of continued and uninterrupted usage...