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DOCUMENT NO. 98 (FILES OF SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE),
 JANUARY 6, 1936

SENATE RESOLUTION 210, SEVENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION,
 AUTHORIZING THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE TO INVESTIGATE CER-
 TAIN MATTERS RELATIVE TO THE FLORIDA SHIP CANAL AND THE
 ESTABLISHMENT OF OTHER WATERWAYS, BY SENATOR VANDENBERG,
 INTRODUCED JANUARY 6, 1936

 On the above date Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan, introduced
 the following resolution, which was referred to the Committee on
Commerce:
 [S. Res. 210, 74th Cong., 2d sews.]
 RESOLUTION

 Resolved, That the Senate Commerce Committee, or any duly authorized sub-
 committee thereof, is instructed to investigate and report to the Senate as
 promptly as possible respecting the so-called Atlantic-Gulf Waterway, other-
 wise known as the Florida Ship Canal, with a view to determining the following
 facts:
 (1) The nature and extent of expenditures to be made from emergency relief
 funds, and subsequent expenditures for construction and maintenance to be
 made from regular funds.
 (2) The sufficiency of plans and information to determine whether the canal
 should be a sea-level or a lock canal and whether it should be thirty or thirty-five
 feet in depth.
 (3) The sufficiency of authentic information to determine whether the canal
 will contaminate the ground water supply of adjacent areas.
 (4) The nature and extent of available traffic to warrant the ultimate ex-
 penditure of between $140,000,000 and $200,000,000 upon the project; be it
 further
 Resolved, That in pursuit of this inquiry, the Senate Commerce Committee is
 instructed to study and report its conclusions upon the advisability of continu-
 ing this project, or starting any other projects, for the establishment of water-
 ways without an enabling Act of Congress.
 For the purpose of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized sub-
 committee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such
 times and places during the sessions and recesses of the Senate in the Seventy-
 fourth and succeeding Congresses, to employ such clerical and other assistants,
 to require by subpoena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the
 production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to
 take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
 The cost of stenographic service to report such hearings shall not be in excess
 of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall
 not exceed $2,500, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate, upon
 vouchers approved by the chairman.
 The chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Senator Copeland
 of New York, appointed a subcommittee consisting of himself as
 chairman, and Senators Fletcher, of Florida, and Vandenberg, of
 Michigan, to consider the resolution.