Production and Conservation of Food Supplies: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, First Session, Relative to the Proposal for Increasing the Production, Improving the Distributon and Promoting the Conservation of Food Supplies in the United States ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - 598 sider |
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Side 497 - 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.
Side 466 - At no time in the history of our country has there been a greater need for exercise of this precedented power.
Side 465 - And here it is to be observed it is not indispensable to the existence of any power claimed for the Federal government that it can be found specified in the words of the Constitution, or clearly and directly traceable to some one of the specified powers. Its existence may be deduced fairly from more than one of the substantive powers expressly defined, or from them all combined. It is allowable to group together any number of them and infer from them all that the power claimed has been conferred.
Side 466 - Chief of the Army and Navy, may, unless prohibited by congressional statute, commit or authorize acts not warranted by commonly received principles of international law...
Side 465 - It is not to be doubted but that there are cases in which private property may be taken for a public use, without the consent of the owner, and without compensation, and without any provision of law for making compensation.
Side 516 - I particularly appeal to the farmers of the South to plant abundant foodstuffs, as well as cotton. They can show their patriotism in no better or more convincing way than by resisting the great temptation of the present price of cotton and helping, helping upon a great scale, to feed the nation and the peoples everywhere who are fighting for their liberties and for our own. The variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty.
Side 469 - The fact that regulations of liquor have been upheld in numberless instances which would have been repugnant to the great guaranties of the Constitution but for the enlarged right possessed by government to regulate liquor has never, that we are aware of, been taken as affording the basis for the thought that government might exert an enlarged power as to subjects to which, under the constitutional guaranties, such enlarged power could not be applied.
Side 236 - and there are three changes ^ from the firft to the fécond, from the third to the fourth, and from the fourth to the fifth term : therefore there are three affirmative roots.
Side 55 - ... the collection of animals had been kept near the Institution itself. A zoological park was maintained there up until 1890, when this ground was acquired. When this ground was acquired, the buildings were erected, and the animals were moved out there, and they have been maintained there ever since. The CHAIRMAN. There are one or two questions I want to ask that you may not be able to answer with propriety. This question has no particular reference to this bill, and you need not answer it if you...