| Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 962 pages
...prescribed regulations, If he found It prac«•tlcable to do so. • 'Without questioning the doctrine that debates In congress are not appropriate sources of Information from which to discover the meaning of a statute passed by that body (U. S. v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n, 166 U. 8. 318, 17 Sup. Ct. 540),... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 798 pages
...other acts, from the language used therein. There is, too, a general acquiescence in the doctrine that debates in Congress are not appropriate sources of...of the language of a statute passed by that body. United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 91 IL S. 72, 79; Aldridge v. Williams, 3 How. 9, 24,... | |
| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1931 - 1014 pages
...: To be contingently po«•Ible ; as. It may be ; you may get off, although you do not deaerra it The reason is that It is impossible to determine with...construction was put upon an act by the members of the legislative body that passed it by resorticg to the speeches of individual members thereof. Those... | |
| 1897 - 550 pages
...other acts from the language used therein. There is, too, a general acquiescence in the doctrine that debates in Congress are not appropriate sources of...of the language of a statute passed by that body. (United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 91 US 72, at 79; Aldridge v. Williams, 3 Howard,... | |
| Iowa. Board of Railroad Commissioners - Public utilities - 1897 - 492 pages
...other acts, from the language used therein. There is, too, a general acquiescence in the doctrine that debates in congress are not appropriate sources of information from which to discover the moaning of the language of a statute passed by that body. (United States v. Union Pacific Railroad... | |
| Iowa. General Assembly - Iowa - 1898 - 1020 pages
...Justice Gray and Mr. Justice Shiras dissenting. 5. There is a general acquiescence in the doctrine that debates in congress are not appropriate sources of information from which to discover the meaning of language in a statute passed by that body. 6. The contracts, combinations, etc. , in restraint of interstate... | |
| United States. War Department - 1899 - 814 pages
...earlier cases in that court are cited, aud the following language is used by Mr. Justice Peckham : "Debates in Congress are not appropriate sources of...certainty what construction was put upon an act by tbe members of a legislative body that passed it by resorting to the epeechee of individual members... | |
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