Hearings Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations, Consisting of Messrs. Bingham, Hemenway, Littauer, Livingston, and Taylor, in Charge of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Bill for 1904U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 168 pages |
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accounts additional clerks AILES amount appropriation ask an increase Assistant Postmaster-General Auditor bill bullion cent charge chief clerk chiefs of divisions Civil Service clerical force clerks of class coin coinage Colonel BINGHAM Colonel CLAY Commander BAIRD Commission committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cost Denver mint deputy detailed disbursing clerk employees estimate expenses fiscal give Government HEMENWAY HILLS increase of salary laborer law clerk legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LITTAUER LIVINGSTON MACHEN MADDEN matter ment MERRIAM MEYER mint coins mints Navy Orleans Orleans mint paid Philadelphia Philadelphia mint PHILIP Philippine Post-Office Department present private secretary PUTNAM receive recommendation reduce revenue ROBERTS rural free delivery RYAN SCOFIELD Secretary MOODY Secretary of War silver dollars statement statute stenographers STRATTON submitted superintendent TAYLOR tion Treasury Department War Department watchmen WYNNE YERKES
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Page 105 - July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled 'An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 158 - For the performance of all these duties full and accurate knowledge of the conditions and proceedings of all the governments in all the islands on the part of the authorities in Washington has been required. It has been necessary to follow them step by step. The President and Congress have looked to the War Department for information as to how the trust of government in the various islands was being performed, and tens of thousands of applications by the people of the United States for every conceivable...
Page 106 - April 7, 1900, now ratified and confirmed by the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An act temporarily to provide for the administration of affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 158 - ... determination. New facts ascertained and changed conditions have called for the interpretation and application of our own rules of policy and the establishment of further rules. Different views as to the scope of authority under the distribution of powers have required reconciliation. The application of the law of military occupation to rights and practices existing under the laws of Spain and the process of overturning inveterate wrongs have brought about frequent appeals to the highest authority,...
Page 105 - Spanish, native dialect or language, or in English, school attendance, ownership of homes, industrial and social statistics, and such other information separately for each island, each province, and municipality, or other civil division, as the President and said Commission may deem necessary: Provided, That the President may, upon the request of said Commission, in his discretion, employ the service of the Census Bureau in compiling and promulgating the statistical information above provided for,...
Page 158 - Department) has been to determine and prescribe the framework of insular government, to lay down the rules of policy to be followed upon the great questions of government as they are foreseen or arise, to obtain the best and ablest men possible for insular officers, to distribute and define their powers, and then to hold them responsible for the conduct of government in the islands with the least possible interference from Washington.
Page 81 - The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to close Sixth Street, Northwest, within the boundaries of the site for the National Gallery of Art.
Page 158 - Department, and it performs with admirable and constantly increasing efficiency the great variety of duties which in other countries would be described as belonging to a colonial office, and would be performed by a much more pretentious establishment.
Page 158 - Different civilizations, different systems of law and procedure, and different modes of thought brought into contact have evolved a great crowd of difficult questions for determination. New facts ascertained and changed conditions have called for the interpretation and application of our own rules of policy and the establishment of further rules. Different views as to the scope of authority under the distribution of powers have required reconciliation.
Page 159 - The business assigned to said bureau shall embrace all matters pertaining to civil government in the island possessions of the United States subject to the jurisdiction of the War Department...