Report Of Subcommittee On Dams And Water Power To Committee On Interstate And Foreign Commerce

Author : United States. Commerce
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230093512
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Report of Subcommittee on Dams and Water Power to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce; House of Representatives ... February 25, 1909 ... written by United States. Commerce and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...expediency, and justice of the means employed are all for Congress to determine. Certainl it is no objection to a power that its exercise is manifestl of vital importance and a vantage to the general welfare. As I have suggested already, the interests of navi tion may be a secondary or even negligible consideration with the licensees of the overnment, but that does not make the government jurisdiction anv the less a constitutional control over navigation, and the real object of the licensee, whether it be the develo ment of power or irrigation, is none the less merely subsidiary and incidental from t e government point of view. If the Government by its own works in actual aid of navigation, or by such works undertaken by its licensees and agents, or by private licensed and permitted structures in navigable streams where navigation is not yet in actual course of improvement, develops power, which is the natural and, indeed, necessary result of such works, it is preposterous to say that the Government can not deal with the subject on the basis of or with any reference to the power thus incidentally or intentionally developed, but must let it go to waste or give it away or turn it over to the State. I repeat that the deve opment of power or of irrigation from surplus waters is subsidiary and collateral to but nevertheless germane to an actual development of navi tion or to an exercise of the navigation jurisdiction where development is in abeyance. bi course the terms to licenses should be fair, and this is a matter for the justice as well as the wisdom of Congress to settle. The period of license should be long enough to permit the enterprise to be financed. In some cases it may very likely be that all charges should be nominal for a...