Preservation of Niagara Falls: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, January 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 26, and 27, 1912 on H.R. 6746 ... and H.R. 7694 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - 448 páginas |
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... taken from one river and less than half from the other by either country so as to afford a more beneficial use to each . It is further agreed that in the division of such waters during the irrigation season , between the first of April ...
... taken from one river and less than half from the other by either country so as to afford a more beneficial use to each . It is further agreed that in the division of such waters during the irrigation season , between the first of April ...
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... taken 20,000 horsepower . As his business increases he must have more and more . We are now at a power famine . This treaty has been negotiated , and yet it has been ob- structed , and we have come to pray that it be no longer ...
... taken 20,000 horsepower . As his business increases he must have more and more . We are now at a power famine . This treaty has been negotiated , and yet it has been ob- structed , and we have come to pray that it be no longer ...
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... taken ? Gen. BIXBY . No ; it is not what is being actually taken . A MEMBER . Now , take what the Chicago Drainage Canal takes in addition to this 20,000 . Gen. BIXBY . Nobody knows just how much they are entitled to at Chicago . The ...
... taken ? Gen. BIXBY . No ; it is not what is being actually taken . A MEMBER . Now , take what the Chicago Drainage Canal takes in addition to this 20,000 . Gen. BIXBY . Nobody knows just how much they are entitled to at Chicago . The ...
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... taken out and goes around the Falls , and it all goes out of the river into Lake Ontario . The CHAIRMAN . The water used for power does not go over the Falls , does it ? Gen. BIXBY . The amount that is used for power does not go over ...
... taken out and goes around the Falls , and it all goes out of the river into Lake Ontario . The CHAIRMAN . The water used for power does not go over the Falls , does it ? Gen. BIXBY . The amount that is used for power does not go over ...
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... taken below the weir point , I sup- pose the engineers call it ? Gen. BIXBY . Yes , sir . Mr. BROWN . That would be so small that particular diversion would have no appreciable effect ? Gen. BIXBY . Very much less effect than the other ...
... taken below the weir point , I sup- pose the engineers call it ? Gen. BIXBY . Yes , sir . Mr. BROWN . That would be so small that particular diversion would have no appreciable effect ? Gen. BIXBY . Very much less effect than the other ...
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American Falls American side amount of power amount of water authorized BIXBY BROWN Burton Act Burton law Canadian Niagara Power Canadian side CARMODY cent CHAIRMAN Chief of Engineers city of Buffalo committee Congress contract COOPER corporations cubic feet Detroit DIFENDERFER distributing diversion of water Dominion of Canada effect Electrical Development electrical horsepower electrical power Erie Canal feet of water feet per second FENNEWICK flow GARNER gentlemen Government grandeur of Niagara granted GREENE HAMMOND Horseshoe Falls Hydraulic Power importation inches international joint commission Lake Erie legislation limit navigation Niagara Falls Power Niagara River Ontario Power permits plant power companies power from Canada power house power purposes preservation of Niagara provisions public service commission question regulation riparian rights scenic beauty scenic grandeur SCOVELL Secretary Secretary of War statement stream tion transmitted treaty United waters of Niagara WATROUS WILLIAM SULZER York
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Página 15 - America, have caused the said treaty and the said understanding, as forming a part thereof, to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this...
Página 11 - ... 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.
Página 11 - 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...
Página 122 - It is further agreed that the waters herein defined as boundary waters and waters flowing across the boundary shall not be polluted on either side to the injury of health or property on the other.
Página 396 - WHEREAS the Senate of the United States by their resolution of March 3, 1909, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein) did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Treaty with the following understanding, to wit: "Resolved •further, a...
Página 392 - The high contracting parties further agree that any other questions or matters of difference arising between them involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along the common frontier...
Página 395 - Any questions or matters of difference arising between the High Contracting Parties involving the rights, obligations, or interests of the United States or of the Dominion of Canada either in relation to each other or to their respective inhabitants...
Página 394 - ... 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.
Página 392 - ... any interference with or diversion from their natural channel of such waters on either side of the boundary, resulting in any injury on the other side of the boundary, shall give rise to the same rights and entitle the injured parties to the same legal remedies as if such injury took place in the country where such diversion or interference occurs...
Página 393 - October, inclusive, annually, the United States is entitled to a prior appropriation of 500 cubic feet per second of the waters of the Milk River, or so much of such amount as constitutes three-fourths of its natural flow...