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... reduced . The difficulty in euforcing the principle is in ascertaining what is the reason- able value of the company's property , and in fixing what is a fair profit . It is clear that the physical value of a railroad and its plant is ...
... reduced . The difficulty in euforcing the principle is in ascertaining what is the reason- able value of the company's property , and in fixing what is a fair profit . It is clear that the physical value of a railroad and its plant is ...
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... reduces the wages of railway employees , and indeed may deprive them of their places en- tirely . From what has been ... reduced . But the consensus of opinion seems to be that the railroad rates generally in this country are reasonably ...
... reduces the wages of railway employees , and indeed may deprive them of their places en- tirely . From what has been ... reduced . But the consensus of opinion seems to be that the railroad rates generally in this country are reasonably ...
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... reduced or avoided . It would be found generally that to the increases which have occurred , Democratic Representatives in Congress made no opposition , but rather sup- ported the measures providing them , and now the party has not the ...
... reduced or avoided . It would be found generally that to the increases which have occurred , Democratic Representatives in Congress made no opposition , but rather sup- ported the measures providing them , and now the party has not the ...
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... reduce them when the result is the , reduction of the wages of the great army of railroad men . A fair working arrangement must be devised according to the needs of the several cases , so that profits , wages and rates shall each be ...
... reduce them when the result is the , reduction of the wages of the great army of railroad men . A fair working arrangement must be devised according to the needs of the several cases , so that profits , wages and rates shall each be ...
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... reduces the vast mass of this informa- tion to such shape that " the man in the street " will read it . It sets before the President , Congress , and the public reliable in- formation as to the operations of the great interstate corpora ...
... reduces the vast mass of this informa- tion to such shape that " the man in the street " will read it . It sets before the President , Congress , and the public reliable in- formation as to the operations of the great interstate corpora ...
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Page 225 - It is of course too early to forecast the means of attaining this last result; but the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire.
Page 400 - States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 66 - ... has not defaulted in the payment of any part of either principal or interest of any funded debt authorized to be contracted by it, and...
Page 123 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries.
Page 354 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein, the President...
Page 431 - Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page 318 - The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to these United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
Page 67 - In order to furnish suitable notes for circulation, the Comptroller of the Currency shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, cause plates and dies to be engraved, in the best manner to guard against counterfeiting and fraudulent alterations, and shall have printed therefrom, and numbered, such quantity of circulating notes, in blank, of the denominations of one dollar, two dollars, three dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five...
Page 123 - We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the foundation of American development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign products and encourages home industry : it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods ; it secures the American market for the American producer ; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American...
Page 349 - There is hereby established at the seat of Government of the United States a Department of Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to 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.