Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Department of JusticeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 |
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additional Administration Alderson amount ANDRETTA antitrust appropriation asking assigned assistant average Bail bonds BENNETT bill boys Budget building Bureau of Prisons CALDWELL CARTER Chairman Chillicothe committee compromise Congress construction cost course Court of Claims Department of Justice district courts duties employees equipment estimate for 1940 expenses Federal Housing Administration filed fingerprints fiscal year 1940 funds Government grade handled HEGSTROM HOOVER increase inmates jail Judge GARRETT Judge MARTIN June 30 junior KERR lapses law clerk litigation maintenance matter McCLURE MCMILLAN McNeil Island ment necessary operation parole pending penitentiary percent personnel population position present prison camps probation officers Public Works Administration purchase RABAUT received record referred repairs reports requested salaries secretaries statement STEFAN stenographer Supreme Court Tallahassee tion total number United States attorney United States penitentiary WAGGAMAN WHITAKER
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Page 577 - And be it further Resolved, That the Congress of the United States be, and it hereby is, requested to provide as the mode of ratification that said amendment shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the constitution of the United States, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states; and be it further Resolved, That...
Page 577 - Engle) ; and be it further Resolved, That the Congress of the United States be urged to...
Page 452 - Care Of The Building and Grounds For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties Imposed upon him by the Act approved May 7, 1934 (40 USC 13a-13b...
Page 154 - Packers and Stockyards Act. 4. The Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937. 5. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. 6. The Railway Labor Act. 7. The Motor Carrier Act. 8. The Federal Water Power Act. 9. The Bituminous Coal Act of 1937. 10. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Mr. ARNOLD. I think it might be well to put in the record at this time that our total number of cases is 208. These are simply the major cases that we are referring to. Mr. MCMILLAN. The major cases now pending? Mr....
Page 4 - No public money shall be expended upon any site or land purchased by the United States for the purposes of erecting thereon any armory, arsenal, fort, fortification, navy-yard, custom-house light-house, or other public building, of any kind whatever, until the written opinion of the Attorney-General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, nor until the consent of the legislature of the State in which the land or site may be, to such purchase, has been given.
Page 130 - Executive drder states that this study shall be completed as soon as possible. Mr. McMiLLAN. Who composes that committee? Mr. HOOVER. Mr. Justice Stanley Reed, chairman; Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter; Attorney General Frank Murphy; William H. McReynolds, of the Treasury Department; Mr. Leonard D. White; Gen. Robert E. Wood; and Mr. Gano Dunn. Mr. McMiLLAN. Is that committee clothed with authority to upset the rulings of the Civil Service Commission? Mr. HOOVER. It is my understanding that the committee...
Page 443 - LIBRARY. 1. The library for the bar shall be open to members of the bar of this court, to members of Congress, and to law officers of the executive or other departments of the Government. 2. The library shall be open during such times as the reasonable needs of the bar require and shall be governed by the regulations made by the librarian with the approval of the chief justice. 3. Books may not be removed from the building.
Page 13 - As most of you know, the chief responsibility of the Solicitor General's office is the conduct of the Government's litigation in the Supreme Court of the United States. This responsibility includes not only the...
Page 113 - Mr. HOOVER. Well, they are published in the quarterly crime bulletin that I have just submitted. Mr. MCMILLAN. All of these charts are included in your quarterly or monthly bulletin that you send out? Mr. HOOVER. Practically all of them. Mr. MCMILLAN. They are of great value, not only to the bureau but to the various law-enforcement agencies of States and municipalities of the country, and I think it is well that there is such information that goes out to the country. Mr. HOOVER. We have received...
Page 75 - Mr. McMiLLAN. Your table shows that exactly that is being done. Mr. LYONS. Yes, sir. Mr. McMiLLAN. Because the number of applications considered by your office is constantly increasing, that is, those which are not submitted to the President. Mr. LYONS. Yes, sir. DATA ON WORK ACCOMPLISHED Mr. McMiLLAN. Will you insert that table in the record at this point? Mr. LYONS. Yes, sir; certainly.