United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 5900U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - United States |
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A. B. Campbell action administration affidavit Agent Jones agreement Alaska coal lands appears Assistant Secretary Pierce Attorney Attorney-General authority Ballinger's believe BRANDEIS Cale bill called certificates CHAIRMAN charge clear listing coal entries Collier's Weekly Commissioner Ballinger committee Congress conservation course cross-examination Cunningham claimants Cunningham claims Cunningham group Davis entrymen evidence fact filed Finney follows Forest Service fraudulent Glavis Glavis's Government Governor Moore Guggenheim Hoyt interests Interior Department investigation issued Jones July July 20 Juneau Katalla Kerby Land Office Lawler letter Love matter ment Newell November 12 opinion patents PEPPER Perkins persons Pinchot power sites President public lands purpose question Reclamation Service record reference regard report of August respect restorations Schwartz Seattle Secretary BALLINGER Secretary Garfield Senator September shows Special Agent statement statute submitted telegram Test testified testimony things tion told United VERTREES Washington withdrawals
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Page 5332 - By the constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character and to his own conscience.
Page 5031 - September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, granting pre-emption rights, and the acts amendatory thereof, and of the act entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 5286 - Gentlemen, what does this mean ? Chops and Tomato sauce ! Yours, Pickwick! Chops! Gracious heavens! and Tomato sauce ! Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away, by such shallow artifices as these? The next has no date whatever, which is in itself suspicious. 'Dear Mrs. B., I shall not be at home till to-morrow. Slow coach.' And then follows this very remarkable expression. 'Don't trouble yourself about the warming-pan.
Page 5097 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employee in any of the Departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee...
Page 5325 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or of the act providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for agricultural purposes,...
Page 5286 - And then follows this very remarkable expression — ' Don't trouble yourself about the warming-pan.' The warming-pan ! Why, gentlemen, who does trouble himself about a warming-pan ? When was the peace of mind of man or woman broken or disturbed by a warming-pan, which is in itself a harmless, a useful, and I will add, gentlemen, a comforting article of domestic furniture ? Why is Mrs. Bardell...
Page 5322 - Full power under the Constitution was vested in the Executive Branch of the Government and the extent to which that power may be exercised is governed wholly by the discretion of the Executive unless any specific act has been prohibited either by the Constitution or by legislation.
Page 5023 - There has developed in recent years a deep concern in the public mind respecting the preservation and proper use of our natural resources. This has been particularly directed toward the conservation of the resources of the public domain. The problem is how to save and how to utilize, how to conserve and still develop; for no sane person can contend that it is for the common good that Nature's blessings are only for unborn generations.
Page 5286 - I am in a situation to prove to you, on the testimony of three of his own friends,— most unwilling witnesses, gentlemen— most unwilling witnesses— that on that morning he was discovered by them holding the plaintiff in his arms, and soothing her agitation by his caresses and endearments.
Page 5031 - ... be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said railroad; and the odd sections of land hereby granted shall not be liable to sale or entry or pre-emption before or after they are surveyed, except by said company, as provided in this act...