New Britain herald., 1928-02-24
llDoo CONTROL
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taksa. gsapraAy as . further check 1ats to, any who might have expect e pelittcal capital for themselvea frem Heover's testimony.
 '1snator Willis. who is fighting Hoevsr fop the Ohio delegation to tho .sspublican national convention est e& the far end of the committee table while Hoover testified.
 Questioned by Hayes
 Hawes iirst asked whether Hoover favored the Jadwin (Coolidge) plan. '.I' don't think this committee will expect me to reconstruct matters submitted by another department of the sovernment." Hoover answered
 Senator Fletcher. democrat, Flor ida, asked if Hoover thought levees alone could control floods.
 Hoover answered he thought safe ty devices were necessary to guard aratnst foods Hoover prefaced his answer to Hawes with an anaylsis or the situation about the 20 per cent issue.
 .Ths president has recommended that such contribution should oe made as has been the national prac- tice hitherto" he said.
 At the same time he has stated that 1t should be organized in sucn manner as to bring no hardship on the people of the south.
 Y believe this principle Of long standing should be adhered to as a method of assuring competence and economy in federal expenditure by the efficient check of local authorl- ties and local interest in the work It should be possible to devise meth ods which will impose no hardship.
 "All of us realize the enormous loss and suffering of the recent flood and the difficulty of contribu- ton at the present time by com munities who have suffered greatly ThA secretary of war has suggested that contributions might be deferred for . term of years until recupera- ton and the growth of wealth which will inevitably come with security and protection.
 Complex Question
 .Ths whole question is one oi much mors complexity than might appear on tho surface, for it in' wolves not only contribution and ex' penditurs on actual construction but Involves the problem of rights o1 way and possibility that flood risht' might need be acquired over large aeres of land. Some of the works IT one state ars partially for the bene' 1t Of another state. Some Of the works gre within one levee district and yst partly for the benefit Of an other.
 .srhs method by which rights oi vav should be acquired and whether they should be owned by local. state or federal governments must oe solved. The question of whether easements must be acquired or not and the method of acquiring them are equally involved. Some parts o1 the works may need wholly federal expenditure. "The amount of money which the people in the south have already ex' pended in construction of the exist inr works needs be taken into ac' count. Losses from the last flood fr its economic reaction on different communities must be studied
 Hoover told the committee he could not testify about the control of floods in the Mississippi Valley At the outset of his testimony he submitted . statement treating oi flood control in general terms and refraining iron, entering the con troversy now raging about the issue
 h Mining Engineer.
 T am | mining engineer, not [ hydraulic engineer" Hoover nid.
 The candidate for the republican presidential nomination. however did etren the necessity for imnn.' diats action in congress on flood control. Adjournment in June with out some sort of legislation VIC 7 be . calamity. he said.
 Hoover's statement in full follows Y am glad to have the opport'i nit yto present to the committee m! views as to tho urgency of legisla' ton for the control of MAsissipp floods.
 T believe the failure Of action al