Joint Resolution of the Georgia General Assembly

Feb. 10, 1939

SAVANNAH RIVER DAM.

No. 6.

A Resolution.

By the General Assembly of Georgia, urging the President of the United States to expedite construction of the power and flood control dam on the Savannah River near Clark's Hill.

Whereas the feasibility of the construction of a power and flood control dam across the Savannah River near Clark's Hill has been repeatedly determined and recommended;

And whereas such decisions and recommendations were contained first in a report of Army Engineers, acting pursuant to a Congressional Resolution, approval in 1927, and subsequently by a report of an executively appointed Board, assisted by distinguished economists and engineers;

And whereas by executive direction the National Resources Board has made a complete investigation and study of all of the facts and reports, and said Board has endorsed and recommended that the Clark's Hill project be put in Group 1 for immediate construction;

And whereas the Federal Power Commission has rendered a highly favorable report and recommendation based on a study of the potential market for the sale of electric energy within the area to be affected;

And whereas the citizens of Georgia and of our sister State of South Carolina are entitled to receive the benefits that will injure, as well as, the protection to be afforded by the construction of a dam across the longest river in the United States on the Atlantic Seaboard;

And whereas the unquestioned feasibility, propriety and wisdom of its construction has been fully demonstrated by the many reports of those best qualified to inquire into such matters.

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of Georgia, the Senate concurring, that we respectfully urge the President of the United States to use his good offices in expediting the construction of the proposed flood control and power dam across the Savannah River near Clark's Hill, inasmuch as the claims of the two States affected, for the protection and public benefits afforded, have been recognized and recommended repeatedly over a period of several years.

Be it further resolved, that certified copies of these resolutions be forwarded to President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Honorable Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Interior; Honorable Walter F. George and Richard B. Russell, Jr., United States Senators from Georgia; Honorable Paul Brown, Representative in Congress from the Tenth Congressional District of Georgia; Honorable Frank R. McNinch, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission; Honorable Roger B. McWhorter, Chief Engineer of the Federal Power Commission; Honorable E.D. Smith and J.F. Byrnes, United States Senators from South Carolina; Honorable H.P. Fulmer, Representative in Congress from the Second Congressional District of South Carolina, and Honorable Butler B. Hare, Representative in Congress from the Third Congressional District of South Carolina.

Approved February 10, 1939.

Source: Ga. Laws 1939, pp. 1452-1453.

(c) Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia

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