Transfer of Public Works Functions: Hearings Before the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8127, a Bill to Provide for the Transfer to the Department of the Interior, of the Public-works Functions of the Federal Government and for Other Purposes, Volumer 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 |
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activities administration Alaska Alaska Railroad Architect architectural Army engineers Assistant Secretary bids Bureau of Public Canal Capitol CHAIRMAN charge Chief of Engineers civil engineers civilian engineers COCHRAN of Missouri Commerce committee Congress connection consolidation construction contractors coordination Corps of Engineers cost DALLINGER Department of Agriculture department of public district engineer division dredging duties economy efficiency employees engi Engineer Corps engineer officers Engineering Society Federal Government GRIFFENHAGEN HAMMER highway improvement interest Interior Department JACOBSTEIN JADWIN MACDONALD matter ment military Mississippi River Mississippi River Commission Navy neers operation organization OSGOOD Panama Canal parks present President problems projects proposed public buildings Public Roads public works functions question railroads Reclamation reorganization result river and harbor Secretary of War statement SUMMERALL supervision TAYLOR technical thing tion transfer United United States Army War Department West Point WILLIAMS Wyant bill
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Side 152 - an act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States, as found in United States Statutes at Large, volume 1, page 130, it is provided in the second section of this act, approved July 16, 1790, as follows
Side 142 - And on April 24, 1928, the board of said society adopted the following: Be it resolved by the board of direction of the American Society of Civil Engineers, That reorganization and concentration of the engineering functions of the Federal Government are desirable and advisable, and the board favors such legislation as will produce these results.
Side 414 - River and harbor work of the Corps of Engineers (War).—The office of the Chief of Engineers and the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors has certain welldefined and well-organized functions in connection with the development, maintenance, and control of waterways and ports. This work is nonmilitary;
Side 302 - To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make inquiries in regard to the systems of road management throughout the United States, to make investigations in regard to the best method of road making, to prepare publications on this subject suitable for distribution, and to enable him to assist the agricultural colleges and experiment stations in disseminating information on this subject.
Side 419 - and with all equipment and work incident thereto, on the sea and Lake coasts of the United States, and on the rivers of the United States so far as specifically authorized by law, and on the coasts of all other territory under the jurisdiction of the United States, with the exception of the Philippine Islands and Panama.
Side 174 - who advises me he can not return. We will have to hear you very briefly, Mr. Smith, because we are right up against the noon hour. STATEMENT OF J. SPENCER SMITH, PRESIDENT OF THE STATE BOARD OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS DIGEST OF TESTIMONY GIVEN APRIL
Side 431 - The propositions submitted, and the results of the balloting on each proposition, were as follows: II. Shall a department of public works be established by a suitable modification of the existing Department of the Interior excluding therefrom the nonrelated bureaus and offices and by change of name from Department of the Interior to department of public works?
Side 152 - Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I would like to make a short statement, submitting the views of the office of the Architect of the Capitol on this matter before the committee, tracing briefly the history of the office from the beginning to the present
Side 421 - equipment, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of merchant vessels in the commerce of the United States, and in general to do and to perform every lawful act and thing necessary or expedient to be done or performed for the efficient and profitable conducting of said business.
Side 152 - first Monday in December, 1800, suitable buildings for the accommodation of Congress, the President, and for the public offices of the Government of the United States. It will be seen by the foregoing