Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1924: Hearing Before Subcommittee of House Committee on Appropriations ... in Charge of Deficiency Appropriations. Sixty-eighth Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 682 pages |
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acres additional Admiral BEURET Admiral BILLARD amount ANTHONY appropriation approved asking assistant to Attorney assistant to United authorized bill BUCHANAN Budget building Bureau Bureau of Navigation BYRNS CALLANDER CAMMERER Captain LAND carriers CHAIRMAN interposing charge clerks Colonel NAYLOR Colonel SHERRILL Colonel STURGES Commission committee Congress connection construction contract cost CRAMTON damage DAVIS deficiency Department District of Columbia Doctor FOWLER Doctor MEAD DONOVAN electric elevators engineer estimate expenditures expenses fiscal year 1924 fund Government Guernsey HINES investigation irrigation June 30 ment MERITT months Navy NEAGLE Newlands project North Platte North Platte project paid payment postmaster printing railroad reclamation record regular clerk repairs road salaries schools Secretary SHOEMAKER Special assistant statement submitted subsistence furnished United supply tion Treasury United States attorney United States prisoners valuation War Department
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Page 386 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 383 - 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 447 - That the sum of $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated...
Page 243 - 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 381 - Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : — ARTICLE I.
Page 94 - ... 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 128 - 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 94 - That for the purpose of co-operating with the States in preparing teachers, supervisors, and directors of agricultural subjects and teachers of trade and industrial and home economics subjects...
Page 130 - 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 130 - Second. The carrier owning and operating a railroad, however strong financially, however economical in its facilities, or favorably situated as to traffic, is not 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...