1. Review Mediterranean Fruit Fly Claims in Florida; 2. Investigate Present System for Futures Trading in Agricultural Products: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of ..., 73-2, on 1. H.R. 5016, March 20-21, 1934, 2. H.J. Res. 226, March 13, 19341934 - 69 Seiten |
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Seite 61 - An Act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, or of any amendment thereof, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to criminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing, concerning which he may testify, or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise,...
Seite 3 - ... All of the expenses of the Commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the Commissioners, or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation, or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman of the Commission.
Seite 57 - The only restriction upon this power, in cases where the public or the inhabitants of any particular section of the State have an interest in the contemplated improvement as citizens merely, is that the property shall not be taken for the public use without just compensation to the owner, and in the mode prescribed by law. The right of eminent domain does not, however, imply a right in the sovereign power to take the property of one citizen and transfer it to another, even for a full compensation,...
Seite 66 - In the court below it was said — " We take judicial knowledge of the history of the country and of current events and from that source we know that conditions at the time of the enactment of the Bingham Act were such that the agricultural producer was at the mercy of speculators and others who fixed the price of the selling producer and the final consumer through combinations and other arrangements, whether valid or invalid, and that by reason thereof the former obtained a grossly inadequate price...
Seite 61 - And in case of disobedience to a subpoena the commission may invoke the aid of any court of the United States in requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of documentary evidence.
Seite 2 - Columbia, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise. •'Sec. 5. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized (1) to make such expenditures, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere, and for cooperation with local, State, and Federal authorities, including the issuance of publications, and necessary investigations, as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon him by this...
Seite 2 - ... officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States in the proceedings under this section. (m) The Arbiter, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to (1) appoint and fix the salaries of such officers, referees, and employees, without regard to the civil service laws and regulations or to the Classification Act of 1923...
Seite 60 - JOINT RESOLUTION To authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the cost of maintaining the present system for futures trading in agricultural products and to ascertain what classes of citizens bear such cost Whereas the present system of futures trading in agricultural commodities and the short selling of these commodities is justified only and, if at all, by reason of its supposed value to dealers and processors by providing a form of insurance Known as "hedging"; and Whereas...
Seite 60 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to...
Seite 60 - Resolution 226, to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the cost of maintaining the present system for futures trading in agricultural products and to ascertain what classes of citizens bear such costs. (The joint resolution is as follows:) [HJRes. 226, 73d Cong.. 2d...