United States House Committee on Roads and Canals
The United States House Committee on Roads and Canals was a U.S. House committee, which was initially established as a select committee in 1815 and subsequently became a standing committee between 1831 and 1869.[1] Roads and canals were an initial and integral sector of domestic improvements for transportation. Previously from 1795 to 1815, federal government support for internal improvements was under the jurisdiction of the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures.[2] Considered closely related to increasing the value of domestic commerce and funded by protective tariffs on it, the general subject of internal improvements was one of the most contentious issues in the young republic, despite the near-universal acceptance of the need for such development.
As technical advances were made and competing modes of transportation developed, the government's consensus and perspectives of them also changed. The committee was renamed the
References
- ^ "Committee on Roads and Canals (1831-69) Jurisdiction and History". National Archives. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ "Records of the Committees Relating to Public Works (1815-1988)". National Archives. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ "Committee on Rivers and Harbors (1883-1946) History and Jurisdiction". National Archives. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
- ^ "Committee on Railways and Canals, (1869-1927)) History and Jurisdiction". National Archives. Retrieved 25 November 2011.