Purchase of Cape Cod Canal, Hearing ..., on S. 2083, to Authorize Acquisition and Operation by United States of Cape Cod Canal ..., Oct1919 - 72 pages |
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... rates could not be charged sufficient to make it a paying investment ? Senator LODGE . A great many vessels will take the risk of going around the cape rather than pay the toll through the canal . Senator SIMMONS . When you say the ...
... rates could not be charged sufficient to make it a paying investment ? Senator LODGE . A great many vessels will take the risk of going around the cape rather than pay the toll through the canal . Senator SIMMONS . When you say the ...
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... rate possible . Senator SIMMONS . You mean the Cape Cod Canal can never be made profitable by itself . If the Delaware & Chesapeake Bay Canal could not be made profitable by itself neither can the one , probably , from Beaufort to ...
... rate possible . Senator SIMMONS . You mean the Cape Cod Canal can never be made profitable by itself . If the Delaware & Chesapeake Bay Canal could not be made profitable by itself neither can the one , probably , from Beaufort to ...
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... rate of toll , probably saving to the Govern- ment hundreds of thousands of dollars in cheap rates , and then at- tempting , at the end of the time , to charge the canal company with the deferred maintenance of three or four hundred ...
... rate of toll , probably saving to the Govern- ment hundreds of thousands of dollars in cheap rates , and then at- tempting , at the end of the time , to charge the canal company with the deferred maintenance of three or four hundred ...
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... rate , the question of the value of this canal has been submitted to the court . It is pending there now . It is in the power of the Govern- ment , whatever may be the verdict of the jury , to suspend that judg- ment in the air for ...
... rate , the question of the value of this canal has been submitted to the court . It is pending there now . It is in the power of the Govern- ment , whatever may be the verdict of the jury , to suspend that judg- ment in the air for ...
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... rates of any sort or kind . Had the same method been applied to the railroads , another method of transportation , either the govern- ment or the railroads would have been bankrupt to - day . The CHAIRMAN . You say the canal company had ...
... rates of any sort or kind . Had the same method been applied to the railroads , another method of transportation , either the govern- ment or the railroads would have been bankrupt to - day . The CHAIRMAN . You say the canal company had ...
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35 feet acquisition amount asked barges bill Boston Buzzards Bay canal company Cape Cod Bay Cape Cod Canal Cape Cod Construction CARLIN CHAIRMAN charge charter Chief of Engineers coal coast committee condemnation proceedings cost demnation depth Director dollars dredging earnings estimate facts Federal control G. K. Warren Government took harbor hearing hereby increased interest intracoastal investigations July July 25 maintenance Massachusetts matter MATTHEWS ment military Nantucket Sound naval navigation Navy never number of vessels paid period Portland President profit purchase question Railroad Administration reference rental value route Secretary of Commerce Secretary of War Secretary REDFIELD Senator COLT Senator EDGE Senator FERNALD Senator FLETCHER Senator KIRBY Senator LENROOT Senator LODGE Senator NELSON Senator SIMMONS ship canal shoaling statement steamers survey tion tolls tonnage tons traffic understand United States Government waterway Wesley L width WILSON writer York Canal
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Page 6 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 7 - ... to the end that such systems of transportation be utilized for the transfer and transportation of troops, war material and equipment to the exclusion so far as may be necessary of all other traffic thereon, and that so far as such exclusive use be not necessary or desirable, such systems of transportation be operated and utilized in the performance of such other services as the national interest may require and of the usual and ordinary business and duties of common carriers.
Page 6 - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the Congress of the United States, in the exercise of the constitutional authority vested in them...
Page 7 - ... systems shall continue the operation thereof in the usual and ordinary course of the business of common carriers, in the names of their respective companies.
Page 7 - The director shall, as soon as may be after having assumed such possession and control, enter upon negotiations with the several companies looking to agreements for just and reasonable compensation for the possession, use, and control of their respective properties on the basis of an annual guaranteed compensation, above accruing depreciation and the maintenance of their properties, equivalent, as nearly as may be, to...
Page 6 - That a state of war is hereby declared to exist between the United States of America and the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Government; and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 6 - The President in time of war is empowered, through the Secretary of War, to take possession and assume control of any system or systems of transportation, or any part thereof, and to utilize the same, to the exclusion, as far as may be necessary, of all other traffic thereon, for the transfer or transportation of troops, war material, and equipment, or for such other purposes connected with the emergency as may be needful or desirable.
Page 7 - Regular dividends hitherto declared and maturing interest upon bonds, debentures, and other obligations may be paid in due course; and such regular dividends and interest may continue to be paid until and unless the said director shall from time to time otherwise by general or special orders determine...
Page 4 - Bays with reference to the advisability of the purchase of said canal by the United States and the construction over the route of the said canal of a free...
Page 7 - From and after 12 o'clock on said 28th day of December, 1917, all transportation systems included in this order and proclamation shall conclusively be deemed within the possession and control of said Director without further act or notice.