184 DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE FLOBIDA CANAL

DOCUMENT NO. 113 (FILES OF SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE),
 FEBRUARY 19, 1936

 HEAmING BEtORE A SUBCOMIrrrEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE,
 UN rED STATES SENATE (74TH CONG., 2D SusE.), ON SENATE RESO-
 LUTION 210

 FLORIDA SHIP CANAL

 UNITED STATES SENATE,
 SUwcoMMrrTE or THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE,
 Washington, D. C., Friday, January 17, 1936.
 The committee met, pursuant to call, at 11 a. m., in the Commerce
 Committee Room of the Capitol, Senator Royal S. Copeland pre-
 siding.
 Present: Senators Copeland (chairman), Fletcher, and Vanden-

 beAso present: Senator Caraway and Maj. Gen. E. M. Markham.
 Chief of Engineers.
 The committee had under consideration S. Res. 210, which is here
 printed in full as follows:
 [. Res. 210. 74th Cong., 2d ew.]
 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 follow-
ing 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 suffciency 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.
 (8) 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 con-
tinuing this project, or starting any other projects, for the establishment of
waterways without an enabling Act of Congress.
 For the purpose of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized
subcommittee 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 ad-
visable. 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. The committee is all together to give considera-
tion to Senator Vandenberg's resolution providing for an investiga-
tion of the economic and other features of the trans-Florida canal.
It was desired that we should hear the Army engineers, to present
any matter which, in their judgment, should be brought before the