Congressional Serial Set, Issue 6365U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... bill . 1066. Veto message relating to exhibition of pictures in District of Columbia . 1070. Eminent domain , decision in case of Hagerla v . Mississippi River Power Co. 1071. American commission to study agricultural credit , etc ...
... bill . 1066. Veto message relating to exhibition of pictures in District of Columbia . 1070. Eminent domain , decision in case of Hagerla v . Mississippi River Power Co. 1071. American commission to study agricultural credit , etc ...
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... bill upon which there has been much comment throughout the Nation , and yet , when an old Army nurse applies for a pension , a woman who is broken down by her devotion to the Nation in hospitals and upon the battle field , she is met at ...
... bill upon which there has been much comment throughout the Nation , and yet , when an old Army nurse applies for a pension , a woman who is broken down by her devotion to the Nation in hospitals and upon the battle field , she is met at ...
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... bill and bring it to a discussion and a vote at the earliest day possible . We feel that this question should be brought before Congress at every session . We ask this little attention from Congressmen whose salaries are paid from the ...
... bill and bring it to a discussion and a vote at the earliest day possible . We feel that this question should be brought before Congress at every session . We ask this little attention from Congressmen whose salaries are paid from the ...
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... bill which passed largely both houses of the legislature to appoint women inspectors of prisons . On such questions woman feels the need of the ballot . The mothers of this land , having breathed the air of freedom and received the ...
... bill which passed largely both houses of the legislature to appoint women inspectors of prisons . On such questions woman feels the need of the ballot . The mothers of this land , having breathed the air of freedom and received the ...
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... bill of indictment the women had taken the train and left the town . sitting on juries in that Territory ? Simply because the United States marshal . Why do you hear no more of women who is appointed by the President to go to Wyoming ...
... bill of indictment the women had taken the train and left the town . sitting on juries in that Territory ? Simply because the United States marshal . Why do you hear no more of women who is appointed by the President to go to Wyoming ...
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Page 6 - It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.
Page 10 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 3 - Between these alternatives there is no middle ground. The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power...
Page 11 - ... a like and contemporaneous service In the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which Is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 7 - Constitutional questions, it is true, are not settled by even a consensus of present public opinion, for it is the peculiar value of a written constitution that it places in unchanging form limitations upon legislative action and thus gives a permanence and stability to popular government which otherwise would be lacking.
Page 6 - ... the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers, either of specific individuals or of officers generally, of the Government of the United States...
Page 3 - I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.
Page 5 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such, for instance, as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex-post-facto laws, and the like.
Page 19 - Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Page 12 - ... no vessel shall be granted clearance papers pending the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such fine, and in the event such fine is imposed, while it remains unpaid, nor shall such fine be remitted or refunded: Provided, That clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such questions upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine and costs, such sum to be named by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.