United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 6754U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... President of United States to Congress , Dec. 2 , 1913 . 341. 23d report of Board of Ordnance and Fortification , 1913 . 359. Report of board of trustees of Postal Savings System , 1913 . 360. Cost of manufacture of ordnance at arsenals ...
... President of United States to Congress , Dec. 2 , 1913 . 341. 23d report of Board of Ordnance and Fortification , 1913 . 359. Report of board of trustees of Postal Savings System , 1913 . 360. Cost of manufacture of ordnance at arsenals ...
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... 1913 DECEMBER 2 , 1913. - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed WASHINGTON ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT . Mr. Speaker , Mr. President 1913 63D CONGRESS 2d Session DOCUMENT No. 339 } { HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
... 1913 DECEMBER 2 , 1913. - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed WASHINGTON ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT . Mr. Speaker , Mr. President 1913 63D CONGRESS 2d Session DOCUMENT No. 339 } { HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT . Mr. Speaker , Mr. President , Gentlemen of the Congress : In pursuance of my constitutional duty to " give to the Congress information of the state of the Union , " I take the liberty of address- ing you on ...
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT . Mr. Speaker , Mr. President , Gentlemen of the Congress : In pursuance of my constitutional duty to " give to the Congress information of the state of the Union , " I take the liberty of address- ing you on ...
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... the industry of our farms to lag behind the other activities of the coun- try in its development . I need not stop to tell you how fundamental to the life of the Nation is the production of ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT , DECEMBER 2 , 1913 . 5.
... the industry of our farms to lag behind the other activities of the coun- try in its development . I need not stop to tell you how fundamental to the life of the Nation is the production of ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT , DECEMBER 2 , 1913 . 5.
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Page 75 - But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist...
Page 77 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
Page 80 - The power to regulate commerce comprehends the control for that purpose, and to the extent necessary, of all the navigable waters of the United States which are accessible from a state other than those in which they lie. For this purpose, they are the public property of the nation, and subject to all the requisite legislation by Congress.
Page 28 - Surely we are sufficiently familiar with the actual processes and methods of monopoly and of the many hurtful restraints of trade to make definition possible, at any rate up to the limits of what experience has disclosed. These practices, being now abundantly disclosed, can be explicitly and item by item forbidden by statute in such terms as will practically eliminate uncertainty, the law itself and the penalty being made equally plain.
Page 78 - Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain. and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads of the United States...
Page 4 - That before any money shall be expended In the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or Implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied after due Inquiry that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the Inventions involved In the...
Page 75 - The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means ; and those who contend that it may not select any appropriate means, that one particular mode of effecting the object is excepted, take upon themselves the burden of establishing that exception.
Page 148 - ... physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions — having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race — justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.
Page 75 - If reference be had to its use in the common affairs of the world, or in approved authors, we find that it frequently imports no more than that one thing is convenient or useful or essential to another. To employ the means necessary to an end is generally understood as employing any means calculated to produce the end, and not as being confined to those single means, without which the end would be entirely unattainable.
Page 77 - Its exertion was but little called for, as commerce was then mostly conducted by water, and many of our statesmen entertained doubts as to the existence of the power to establish ways of communication by land. But since, in consequence of the expansion of the country, the multiplication of its products, and the invention of railroads and locomotion by steam, land transportation has so vastly increased, a sounder consideration of the subject has prevailed and led to the conclusion that Congress has...