WATER POWER VOL 1

ISBN: 9780266929444 Géneros: GB Sinópsis: Excerpt from Water Power Vol 1 Hearings Before the Committee on Water Power of the House of Representatives SixtyFifth Congress Second Session March 18 to April 1918The chairmanilglhe committee will come to order Gentlemen I can not know without having been informed as to just how many persons desire to be heard or the time that is expected to be used b the different persons desiring to be heard We would like to con c ude the hearings within one week that is this week from the 18th to the 23d I would not say we will not give any more time but we would like very much if possible to get through this week and if not as soon thereafter as possibleIt is hardly worth while to undertake to start the hearin earlier than a M We can then proceed for an hour and a halfgind er haps two hours if the House is considering something that oes not require our presence on the door Then we will usually take a recess until 2 oclock While neither this committee nor the Commit tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce has permission to sit during the sessions of the House yet when the House is engaged on some thing like general debate or something that does not require our presence on the floor we can go ahead in the afternoons say from 2 until 5 which will give four hours and a half or gossibly five hours a day to the hearings if nothing intervenes but 0 course something may intervene That would mean 30 hours for the week if we use that much time each dayAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair