Eliminating Land-grant Reductions in Compensation for Transportation: Hearings, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session, May 31, June 1 and 2, 1938U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938 - 114 էջ |
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Էջ 59 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Էջ 66 - Payments for transportation of freights, stores, munitions of war, and other public property will be made at such reasonable rates as may be allowed other railroad companies, subject, however, to the abatement of 33% percent, as before specified.
Էջ 42 - Indeed, an important if not the chief reason for employing these incorporated agencies was to enable them to employ commercial methods and to conduct their operations with a freedom supposed to be inconsistent with accountability to the Treasury under its established procedure of audit and control...
Էջ 48 - It, therefore, becomes important that a line of communication, the best and most expeditious which the nature of the country will admit, should be opened . within the territory of the United States, from the navigable waters of the Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific.
Էջ 59 - Moines shall be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or other charge whatever for any property of the United States...
Էջ 48 - Atlantic or the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. Opinion, as elicited and expressed by two large and respectable conventions, lately assembled at St. Louis and Memphis, points to a railroad as that which, if practicable, will best meet the wishes and wants of the country. But while this, if in successful operation, would be a work of great national importance and of a value to the country which it would be difficult to estimate, it ought also to be regarded as an undertaking of vast magnitude and expense,...
Էջ 41 - Fleet Corporation of the commercial rate for messages would necessarily increase the charges upon the public treasury to the same extent, and in the same manner, as would the charge of the commercial rate in respect to the business done for the United States directly by the Shipping Board or that done for it by some other department of the Government. An important, if not the chief, reason for employing a corporate agency was to enable the Government...
Էջ 48 - I recommend as a preliminary measure a careful reconnaissance of the several proposed routes by a scientific corps and a report as to the practicability of making such a road, with an estimate of the cost of its construction and support. For further views on these and other matters connected with the duties of the home department I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Interior. I recommend early appropriations for continuing the river and harbor...
Էջ 100 - Representative! of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Attorney General is hereby authorized and directed to secure and maintain records of lands granted by the United States to aid in the construction and maintenance of roads and railroads; the benefits accruing to the United States from such grants: the disposition made of said lands by the grantees or their successors in interest, and the consideration received therefore; to protect, conserve, and assert, by appropriate...
Էջ 42 - AMC clearly was not the intention of Congress by the Act of 1910 to abrogate or modify the scope or affect the application of the Post Roads Act Fifth. It is urged that if the Fleet Corporation is granted the government rate, it may likewise be claimed by every instrumentality of the Government. Instrumentalities like the national banks or the federal reserve banks, in which there are private interests, are not departments of the Government. The are private corporations in which the Government has...