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The St. Lawrence Waterway and Power Project
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
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The St. Lawrence Waterway and Power Project has been one of the most controversial questions before the Congress. It was defeated as a treaty and later as an executive agreement. There are apparently too many interests which consider themselves jeopardized by the project to obtain a majority support for the scheme.
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page 411 note 1 Also in Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 4 (March 22, 1941), pp. 307-313.
page 411 note 1a Department of State Press Release, July 18, 1932; id., Publication No. 347.
page 412 note 2 Washington, Jan. 11, 1909. U. S. Treaty Series, No. 548; Malloy, Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements between the United States and Other Powers, Vol. III, p. 2607; this Journal, Supp., Vol. 4 (1910), p. 239.
page 413 note 3 Hearings, 1846, p. 1037; Senate Report No. 1499 (79th Cong., 2d Sess.), June 13, 1946.
page 413 note 4 Opinion on the St. Lawrence Waterway and Power Project by Edwin Borchard.
page 413 note 5 In 1934-1941, 1944-1948 the bill was defeated.
page 413 note 6 Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, 72nd Cong., 2nd Sess., on S. Res. 278 (1932), p. 5.
page 413 note 7 Department of State Press Releases, Vol. XVIII, No. 453 (June 4, 1938), p. 634.
page 414 note 8 House Doc. 153, 77th Cong., 1st Sess., p. 8.
page 414 note 9 Correspondence and Documents relating to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin Development, 1938-1941, Supplement No. 1 (Ottawa, 1941), p. 5.
page 414 note 10 Id. at p. 6.
page 414 note 11 Id. at p. 9.
page 414 note 12 Id. at pp. 11, 13.
page 415 note 13 Department of State Press Releases, Vol. XVIII, No. 443 (March 26, 1938), pp. 402-403.
page 415 note 14 See Hearings before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors on the Subject of the Improvement of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, 77th Cong., 1st Sees. (1941), p. 45; Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce on S. 1385, 78th Cong., 2d Seas. (1944), p. 199.
page 415 note 15 Department of State Press Releases, Vol. XVIII, No. 453 (June 4, 1938), p. 622.
page 415 note 16 No. 8568. Federal Register, Vol. 5, No. 204 (Oct. 18, 1940), p. 4121; St. Lawrence Survey, op. cit., p. 129. For the correspondence between the United States and Canada, 1938-1941, see Correspondence and Documents relating to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin Development, 1938-1941 (Ottawa, 1941), with Supplement.
page 415 note 17 Department of State Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 69 (Oct. 19, 1940), p. 316; St. Lawrence Survey, op. cit., p. 130.
page 416 note 18 Department of State Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 76 (Dec. 7, 1940), p. 518; St. Lawrence Survey, op. cit., p. 131.
page 416 note 19 Department of State Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 91 (March 22, 1941), p. 313; St. Lawrence Survey, op. cit., p. 134.
page 416 note 20 Department of State Bulletin, Vol. IV, No. 91 (March 22, 1941), p. 314; St. Lawrence Survey, op. cit., p. 135.
page 416 note 21 Supra, note 3.
page 416 note 22 Cong. Rec, Vol. 8, Pt. 3, p. 2521.
page 416 note 23 Ibid., p. 2522.
page 417 note 24 Cf. Simsarian, James, “The Diversion of Waters Affecting the United States and Canada,” this Journal, Vol. 32 (1938), p. 488 Google Scholar.
page 418 note 25 H. R. 4927, 77th Cong., 1st Sess.
page 418 note 26 H. R. 5993, 77th Cong., 1st Sess.
page 418 note 27 S. 1385, 78th Cong., 1st Sess., Cong. Bee, Vol. 89, Pt. 6, p. 7844.
page 418 note 28 Cong. Rec, Vol. 90, Pt. 7, p. 9243.
page 418 note 29 S. J. Res. 104, 79th Cong., 1st Sess. (Oct. 2, 1945).
page 420 note 30 Several additional diversions from the Niagara were accomplished by treaty subsequent to 1909. See the unperfected treaty of 1929 (U. S. Foreign Relations, 1929, Vol. II, p. 89) and the treaties of May and November, 1941 (Executive Agreement Series, Nos. 209 and 223). See also Exec. E, 78th Cong., 2d Sess., May 3, 1944, Department of State Bulletin, May 13, 1944, p. 455. See also Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, U. S. Senate, 78th Cong., 2d Sess., on S. 1385 (1944), pp. 196-197.
page 421 note 31 Financial World, Dec. 26, 1945, p. 17 ; ibid., Jan. 2, 1946, p. 13.
page 421 note 32 Department of State, Treaty Series, No. 431; Malloy, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 1349.
page 421 note 33 Treaty with Mexico, which entered into force Nov. 8, 1945, Department of State, Treaty Series, No. 994; Department of State Bulletin, Dec. 2, 1945, p. 901.
page 421 note 34 Hearings on S. Res. 278, 72nd Cong., 2nd Seas., Pt. 2 (1933), p. 905 at 906.
page 422 note 35 Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations on S. J. Res. 104, U. S. Senate, 79th Cong., 2d Sees. (1946), p. 997.
page 423 note 36 See editorial, “The Charter and the Conatitution,” this Journal, Vol. 39 (1945), p. 767.
page 432 note 37 The Acting Secretary of State (Grew) to President Coolidge, Feb. 24, 1927, MS Department of State, file 585.7a3/258.