Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill: 1924, Hearing ... 68th Congress, 1st Session1924 - 682 pages |
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acres additional Admiral BILLARD amount ANTHONY appropriation ARONOFF asking assistant to Attorney assistant to United authorized bill boats BUCHANAN building Bureau of Navigation BYRNS CALLANDER Captain LAND carriers CHAIRMAN interposing charge clerks Colonel SHERRILL Colonel STURGES Commission committee Congress connection construction contract cost Court of Claims CRAMTON damage deficiency Department District Doctor EVANS Doctor MEAD Doctor MOHLER DONOVAN electric elevators engineers estimate expenditures expenses filed fiscal Fort Laramie fund Government Guam Guernsey HINES Interstate investigation irrigation June 30 LEWIS ment MERITT months Navy NEAGLE Newlands project North Platte North Platte project paid payment printing prisoners rate Professor WOODBRIDGE railroad reclamation record repairs reservoir road SABINE salaries schools Secretary SHOEMAKER Special assistant statement submitted subsistence furnished United supply TANNER tion Treasury United States attorney United States prisoners valuation
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Page 177 - Stat. 704, 705, amended the act of 1910 to readThat whenever an invention described in and covered by a patent of the United States shall hereafter be used or manufactured by or for the United States without license of the owner thereof or lawful right to use or manufacture the same, such owner's remedy shall be by suit against the United States in the Court of Claims for the recovery of his reasonable and entire compensation for such use and manufacture...
Page 84 - ... that at least one-third of the sum appropriated to any State for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects...
Page 102 - Act, in so far as deemed by it available, and shall give due consideration to all the elements of value recognized by the law of the land for ratemaking purposes, and shall give to the property investment account of the carriers only that consideration which under such law it is entitled to in establishing values for rate-making purposes.
Page 83 - States for the purpose of cooperating with the States in paying the salaries of teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects, and teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects...
Page 104 - The state cannot Justify unreasonably low rates for domestic transportation, considered alone, upon the ground that the carrier is earning large profits on its interstate business, over which, so far as rates are concerned, the state has no control.
Page 104 - ... entitled as of constitutional right to more than a fair net operating income upon the value of its properties which are being devoted to transportation. By investment in a business dedicated to the public service the owner must recognize that, as compared with investment in private business, he can not expect either high or speculative dividends but that his obligation limits him to only fair or reasonable profit.
Page 294 - Convention in naming such third member, then he shall be designated by the President of the Permanent Administrative Council of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague described in Article XLIX of the Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes concluded at The Hague on October 18, 1907.
Page 293 - Convention; and further engage that every such claim, whether or not the same may have been presented to the notice of, made, preferred, or laid before the said commission, shall, from and after the conclusion of the proceedings of the said commission, be considered and treated as finally settled, barred, and thenceforth inadmissible.
Page 104 - ... high or speculative dividends but that his obligation limits him to only fair or reasonable profit. If the company owned the only railroad engaged in transportation in a given section and was doing all the business, this would be clear. If it receives a fair return on its property, why should it make any difference that other and competing railroads in the same section are permitted to receive higher rates for a service which it costs them more to render and from which they receive no better...
Page 210 - ... claimed, and the. amount allowed: Provided, That no claim shall be considered by a department or other independent establishment unless presented to it within one year from the date of the accrual of said claim. SEC.