Employment for Discharged Soldiers and Sailors: Hearings on H.R. 13415, Jan. 17, 19191919 - 56 pages |
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acres agency agricultural land Alaska authorized Cabinet officers cent Chairman cities colonization committee Congress construction service demobilization Department of Agriculture Department of Labor desire Edward Keating eight-hour day established executive departments farm farmer fee simple forest communities forestry Government House idea immigration industry interest Interior Department KEATING KELLY KENT Labor Department legislation Leonardtown LEWIS F logging machinery matter means ment mineral mining munity national board natural resources NOLAN operations oppor organization permanent and profitable permanent forest Port Clarence possible postal agent practical President problem profitable employment proposition public domain public lands purpose question reclamation returned soldiers rural free delivery school buildings Secretary Lane Secretary of Labor settler SILCOX situation SMITH soldier-employment fund speculation square miles STARR statement STERLING thing timber tion United unused utilized wage War Department workers Zealand
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Page 6 - ... be exempt from the payment of all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under state, municipal, or local authority...
Page 6 - ... and to prepare and issue therefor coupon or registered bonds of the United States in such form as he may prescribe, and in denominations of...
Page 6 - Treasury at not less than par, under such regulations as he may prescribe, giving to all citizens of the United States an equal opportunity to subscribe therefor, but no commissions shall be allowed or paid thereon; and a sum not exceeding one-tenth of...
Page 22 - Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 6 - ... is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the expense of preparing, advertising, and issuing the same.
Page 7 - Act, fifty per centum of the annual receipts of the reclamation fund shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States until payments so made shall equal the aggregate amount of advances made by the Treasury to said reclamation fund, together with interest paid on the certificates of indebtedness issued under this Act and any expense incident to preparing, advertising, and issuing the same.
Page 6 - ... gold coin of the United States. The certificates of indebtedness herein authorized may be disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury at not less than par, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, giving all citizens of the United States an equal opportunity to subscribe therefor, but no commission shall be allowed and the aggregate issue of such certificates shall not exceed the amount of all advances made to said reclamation fund, and in no event shall the same exceed the sum...
Page 24 - No one who has the interest of America at heart," says the Secretary of Labor in his latest annual report,1 " can look forward with tolerance to the growth or continuance of a body of migratory workers who in the nature of the case must have * * * a hatred for the law which they have never known except in its repressive aspect.
Page 6 - States, provided the same shall be approved by the President of the United States; and such sum or sums as may be required to comply with the foregoing authority are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the sums hereby authorized to be transferred to the reclamation fund shall be so transferred only as such sums shall be actually needed to meet payments for work...
Page 6 - ... maintenance thereof or to protect water rights pertaining thereto claimed by the United States, provided the same shall be approved by the President of the United States; and such sum or sums as may be required to comply with the foregoing authority are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the sums hereby authorized to be transferred to the reclamation fund...