Official Congressional Directory, Volume 65, Issue 1, Part 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - Directories, Governmental
 

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Page 302 - That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 306 - To grant by special permit to national banks applying therefor, when not in contravention of State or local law...
Page 299 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 302 - ... for a shorter than for a longer haul, over the same line, in the same direction...
Page 373 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the State.
Page 306 - From time to time to classify corporations and to make rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act...
Page 310 - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives...
Page 299 - Labor, who is directed to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital ; the hours of labor ; the earnings of laboring men and women ; and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 306 - Upon the application of the Attorney General to investigate and make recommendations for the readjustment of the business of any corporation alleged to be violating the antitrust Acts in order that the corporation may thereafter maintain its organization, management, and conduct of business in accordance with law.
Page 313 - That whenever a controversy concerning wages, hours of labor, or conditions of employment shall arise...

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