Word: damming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated, debated, debated the Boulder Dam bill and passed it; sent the measure to conference (see below...
Having damned legislation in the Senate for two sessions past, the Swing-Johnson bill to build the world's hugest dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, was last week passed by the Senate, 64 to 11. Passed by the House last spring, the measure now went to conference to have House-Senate differences composed...
Between the Congress and President Coolidge is an issue over who shall build and operate electric power plants at the dam (1,000,000 horsepower, potentially). The House voted that the Government should do it. The President, in his Message to Congress this month, said: "Private enterprise can very well fill this field." Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, the Administration's spokesman, offered an amendment making private development of the power phase mandatory. The amendment was beaten, 53 to 24. Senator Borah offered an amendment making power development by the Government mandatory, but Senator Johnson persuaded him to withdraw...
...When supplemented by the 80-ft. dam proposed by the Insull interests, they would yield only 40,000 horsepower. Tallulah Falls on the Tallulah River in Georgia yield 108,000. Few natural waterfalls in the U. S. have been developed for waterpower. Usually dams are found more convenient and efficient. Outstanding natural waterfalls now exploited are Niagara (1,535,000 h. p.); the Great Falls of the Missouri River in Montana (60,000 h. p.); Thompson Falls at Clark's Fork Montana River, Mont. (35,000 h. p.); St. Croix Falls on the Mississippi in Wisconsin...
...Debated, debated, debated their unfinished carry-over from last session, the Boulder Dam bill. To facilitate passage this session, Senator Johnson (Calif.), sponsor, substituted the Boulder Dam bill passed by the House last session for his own much-filibustered measure, then re-substituted his own text after the House's enacting clause. Otherwise the bill, if passed by the Senate, would be new legislation, subject to delay when it returns to the House...