Congressional Serial Set, Masalah 5129

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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Halaman 17 - ... Decided February 19, 1906. A carrier, not expressly authorized so to do by charter obtained prior to the Interstate Commerce Act, cannot contract to sell, and to transport in completion of the contract the commodity sold, when the stipulated price does not pay the cost of purchase, the cost of delivery, and the published freight rates. The Interstate Commerce Act was enacted to secure equality of rates and to destroy favoritism, and for those purposes is a remedial statute, to be interpreted...
Halaman 25 - But we cannot doubt the authority of Congress by legislation to make it an offense against the United States for a Senator, after his election and during his continuance in office, to agree to receive or to receive compensation for services to be rendered...
Halaman 26 - C, 1846, authorizing the people of the then Territory of Wisconsin to form a state government, and by which section 16 in every township of the public lands, in that Territory, not sold or otherwise disposed of was granted to the State for the use of schools, did not operate to vest in the State section 16 of townships within the La Pointe or Bad River and the Flambeau Indian Reservations from which the Indians have never been required to remove; and this notwithstanding by the provisions in treaties...
Halaman 25 - Rev. Stat., in protecting its mails and postal facilities from improper and illegal use and in enforcing statutes regulating such use. Where the indictment clearly discloses all the elements essential to the commission of the offense charged, and the averments are sufficient in 202 US Argument for Plaintiff in Error.
Halaman 23 - ... the accused waives the right to thereafter plead once in jeopardy, when he has obtained a reversal of the judgment, even as to that part of it which acquitted him of the higher while convicting him of the lower offense. When at his own request he has obtained a new trial he must take the burden with the benefit, and go back for a new trial of the whole case.
Halaman 23 - iVhere upon the indictment of a greater offense the one accused is found not guilty thereof but guilty of a lower offense included therein, and upon appeal from that judgment a new trial is granted by the appellate court, the accused can, on the new trial, be tried for the greater offense in the indictment and such new trial does not amount to placing him in jeopardy a second time for the same offense within the meaning of the Federal Constitution or of the provisions in that regard in the Philippine...
Halaman 25 - ... are to be construed strictly is, perhaps, not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial, department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment.
Halaman 15 - ... were denials of petitions for writs of certiorari under the Act of March 3, 1891, and 4 were docketed and dismissed. "The total number of cases on the appellate docket in which the United States was a party or had a substantial interest disposed of at the October term, 1916, was 146.
Halaman 16 - The United States court has no jurisdiction under the Thirteenth Amendment or sections 1978, 1979, 5508, 5510, Revised Statutes, of a charge of conspiracy made and carried out in a State to prevent citizens of African descent, because of their race and color, from making or carrying out contracts and agreements to labor.
Halaman 20 - ... in the shape of books and papers of corporations are in the possession of the officers thereof, who cannot refuse to produce them on the ground that they are not in their possession or under their control.

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