Roads: Hearings Before the Committee on Roads, House of Representatives. Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on The General Authorization Bills. February 15-20, 1926U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - 201 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 82 - One-third in the ratio which the area of each State bears to the total area of all the States; one-third in the ratio which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States...
Page 140 - ... by Thomas H. MacDonald, Chief of the United States Bureau of Public Roads.
Page 1 - Dowell (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen of the committee, we have met this morning for the purpose of taking up general legislation for the authorization of appropriations for Federal aid under the general law. There are a number of bills before the committee, and we are ready now to hear those who desire to be heard on this proposed legislation. STATEMENT OF WC MARKHAM, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY OFFICIALS Mr.
Page 40 - July 11, 1916, and of section 23 of the Federal highway act of November 9, 1921...
Page 169 - The CHAIRMAN. We will stand adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Page 69 - Mr. CANNON. Has cooperation ever been had from private sources, such as individuals and corporations, in the construction of these bridges? Mr. MAcDoNALD. No; unless a State had some of the funds supplied to it through private sources. If a State has funds to meet the Federal-aid funds, we do not investigate the sources. We believe it is all good money if the State has it under its jurisdiction. I shall not go into a summary of the work of the bureau or the details for each State, Mr. Chairman, because...
Page 5 - Thus, the provision of the Washington statute is a regulation, not of the use of its own highways, but of interstate commerce. Its effect upon such commerce is not merely to burden but to obstruct it. Such state action is forbidden by the Commerce Clause. It also defeats the purpose of Congress expressed in the legislation giving federal aid for the construction of interstate highways.
Page 33 - ... in the case of any project which, by reason of density of population or character and volume of traffic, the State highway department .and the Secretary of Agriculture may determine should be improved with a surface of greater width than 18 feet.
Page 5 - States in the following proportion: 90 per centum in the proportion which the population of each State bears to the total population of all the States, as shown by the latest available Federal census, and...
Page 113 - The CINCINNATI AUTOMOBILE CLUB, Cincinnati, Ohio. GENTLEMEN : It has been brought to my attention that there is a possibility of the Government withdrawing their financial aid in the building of national highways. Please add my protest to the public voice against any such arrangement, for, above all things, this country needs good roads, and they can only be built with Federal assistance. Very truly yours, THE AMERICAN LIABILITY Co., CH SANDERS, Secretary. THE MB FARRIN LUMBER Co., CincinnaM, Ohio,...