Word: flood-control
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Looking eastward, residents of the Mississippi Basin saw another spectacle, at Washington. After months of wrangling, a committee of the House last week reported a flood-control measure to Congress. But the smoke of conflict, instead of trailing away, was just beginning to thicken. "The greatest fight this session" instead of a national necessity was what Congress was prepared to supply...
Army engineers had surveyed. The Department of Commerce had calculated. The Administration had conferred and announced: "$290,400,000 for federal flood-control, the States to bear 20% of the cost and furnish the land for earthworks...
Lobbyists had pressed special claims. Businessmen had pictured the Basin's real financial extremity. Politicians had embarked on the flood for a joyride, and the bill at last said: "$473,000,000 for federal flood-control, without local contribution...
...difference between the administration's figure and that of the House Flood-Control Committee was just $183,000,000. As the "greatest fight" began, and the "superflood" abated, citizens wondered what part of a 183-million-dollar stumbling-block should be scored against...
...total number of measures introduced in the House was 8,459. Notable among last week's grist for the bill mill were three proposed Navy inquiries prompted by the S-4 disaster; a new farm-relief bill by Representative Haugen of Iowa; a Mississippi flood-control bill, by Chairman Reid of the Flood-Control Committee, calling for Federal payment of the entire program instead of only 80% as urged by the administration...