Meat-packer Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Meat-packer Legislation ....U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 |
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Page 1534 - ... to employ and fix the compensation of such attorneys, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees as it may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of its duties and as may be from time to time appropriated for by Congress.
Page 1829 - ... from entering into, taking part in, or performing any contract, combination or conspiracy, the purpose or effect of which will be, as to trade and commerce in fresh meats between the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia, a restraint of trade, in violation of the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1890, entitled 'An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 1302 - Upon the direction of the President or either House of Congress to investigate and report the facts relating to any alleged violations of the antitrust Acts by any corporation.
Page 1813 - It is a fair deduction from the testimony that the most active agents in forwarding and bringing about the concentration of control of money and credit through one or another of the processes above described have been and are — JP Morgan & Co.
Page 1203 - The CHAIRMAN. The committee will now take a recess until 2 o'clock.
Page 1844 - To employ lobbyists and pay their unaudited expenses; To influence legislative bodies; To elect candidates who would wink at violations of law, and defeat those pledged to fair enforcement: To control tax officials and...
Page 1791 - Union company in the first half of 1917 was $18.11 per ton, making a margin of $12.38 per ton. The manufacturers of sulphuric acid are paying in the neighborhood of $25 per ton and some as high as $35 per ton, making margins of over $15 per ton for sulphur companies. The Freeport...
Page 1440 - The Secretary may make such rules, regulations and orders as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers...
Page 1477 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be construed as declaring to be illegal an association entered into for the sole purpose of engaging in export trade and actually engaged solely in such export trade...
Page 1800 - There is abundant fuel for the light in the records of the Treasury with regard to profits of every sort. The profiteering that can not be got at by the restraints of conscience and love of country can be got at by taxation. There is such profiteering now and the information with regard to it is available and indisputable.