The Science of Finance: An Investigation of Public Expenditures and Public Revenues

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H. Holt, 1898 - 573 halaman
 

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Halaman 125 - Committee of Ways and Means to take into consideration all such reports of the Treasury Department, and all such propositions relative to the revenue, as may be referred to them by the House : to inquire into the state of the public debt, or the revenue, and of the expenditures, and to report, from time to time, their opinion thereon...
Halaman 495 - It cannot be too strongly insisted upon that the right of continuous transportation from one end of the country to the other is essential in modern times to that freedom of commerce from the restraints which the State might choose to impose upon it, that the commerce clause was intended to secure.
Halaman 201 - It shall be the duty of the Committee on Public Expenditures to examine into the state of the several public departments, and particularly into laws making appropriations of money, and to report whether the moneys have been disbursed conformably with such laws; and also to report from time to time such provisions and arrangements as may be necessary to add to the economy of the departments, and the accountability of their officers.
Halaman 106 - No scutage or aid shall be imposed in the Kingdom unless by the common council of the realm, except for the purpose of ransoming the King's person, making his first-born son a knight, and marrying his eldest daughter once, and .the aids for this purpose shall be reasonable in amount.
Halaman 495 - And if it be a regulation of commerce, as we think we have demonstrated it is, and as the Illinois court concedes it to be, it must be of that national character, and the regulation can only appropriately exist by general rules and principles, which demand that it should be done by the Congress of the United States under the commerce clause of the Constitution.
Halaman 402 - To the desire of rising in the world, implanted in the breast of every individual, an increase of taxation superadds the fear of being cast down to a lower station, of being deprived of conveniences and gratifications which habit has rendered all but indispensable ; and the combined influence of the two principles produces results that could not be produced by the unassisted agency of either...
Halaman 437 - I do solemnly swear that I have carefully read (or have heard read) and have duly considered the questions propounded in the foregoing taxlist, and that the value placed by me on the property returned, as shown by said list, is at the true market value thereof; and I...
Halaman 125 - ... to examine into the state of the several public departments, and particularly into the laws making appropriations of moneys, and to report whether the moneys have been disbursed conformably with such laws; and, also to report, from time to time, such provisions and arrangements, as may be necessary to add to the economy of the departments, and the accountability of their officers.
Halaman 215 - An act to provide for the better organization of the Treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue...
Halaman 495 - That this species of regulation is one which must be, if established at all, of a general and national character, and cannot be safely and wisely remitted to local rules and local regulations, we think is clear from what has already been said.

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