Conduct of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary. Feb 21, 1921. Statement of Hon. Benjamin F. Welty, M.C.1921 - 43 pages |
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... appointed a district judge , and still is one of the dis- trict judges of the United States , to wit , the Northern District of Illinois . and was at the time he entered into said contract receiving a salary of $ 7,500 and expenses ...
... appointed a district judge , and still is one of the dis- trict judges of the United States , to wit , the Northern District of Illinois . and was at the time he entered into said contract receiving a salary of $ 7,500 and expenses ...
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... appointed a one - man court of last resort for major leagues - Club owners compromise , adjust points of difference in three hours ' conference - Landis retains old post- Stays on the bench while accepting $ 42,500 salary in new ...
... appointed a one - man court of last resort for major leagues - Club owners compromise , adjust points of difference in three hours ' conference - Landis retains old post- Stays on the bench while accepting $ 42,500 salary in new ...
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... appoint a secretary - treasurer , who shall hold office during the pleasure of the advisory council . His duties shall be such as the council shall from time to time determine . His compensation shall be fixed by the council , subject ...
... appoint a secretary - treasurer , who shall hold office during the pleasure of the advisory council . His duties shall be such as the council shall from time to time determine . His compensation shall be fixed by the council , subject ...
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... appointed under the authority of the United States to exercise the profession or employment of counsel or attorney or to be engaged in the practice of the law . Any person offending against the prohibition of this section shall be ...
... appointed under the authority of the United States to exercise the profession or employment of counsel or attorney or to be engaged in the practice of the law . Any person offending against the prohibition of this section shall be ...
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... appointed " during good behavior " under the Constitution , and being appointed " during good behavior " he may be removed for any misbehavior , for any failure of duty Congress has always said , and so has the British Parliament from ...
... appointed " during good behavior " under the Constitution , and being appointed " during good behavior " he may be removed for any misbehavior , for any failure of duty Congress has always said , and so has the British Parliament from ...
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Page 25 - ... appeal from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Page 40 - Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
Page 36 - Congress have unhesitatingly adopted the conclusion, that no previous statute is necessary to authorize an impeachment for any official misconduct ; and thtt rules of proceeding, and the rules of evidence, as well as the principles of decision, have been uniformly regulated by the known doctrines of the common law, and parliamentary usage. In the few cases of impeachment, which have hitherto been tried, no one of the charges has rested upon any statutable...
Page 31 - The President * * * shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
Page 36 - An examination of the English precedents will show that, although private citizens as well as public officers have been impeached, no article has been presented or sustained which did not charge either misconduct in office or some offense which was injurious to the welfare of the State at large.
Page 32 - So where a lord chancellor has been thought to have put the great seal to an ignominious treaty, a lord admiral to have neglected the safeguard of the sea, an ambassador to have betrayed his trust, a privy...
Page 5 - July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, no Government official or employee shall receive any salary in connection with his services as such an official or employee from any source other than the Government of the United States...
Page 32 - Parliament, purchasing offices, giving medicine to the king without advice of physicians, preventing other persons from giving counsel to the king except in their presence, and procuring exorbitant personal grants from the king. But others, again, were founded in the most salutary public justice, such as impeachments for malversations and neglect in office, for encouraging pirates, for official oppression, extortions, and deceits, and especially for putting good magistrates out of office and advancing...
Page 29 - I have but one observation more to make on this point, which is, that impeachment is a proceeding purely of a political nature. It is not so much designed to punish an offender as to secure the State. It touches neither his person nor his property; but simply divests him of his political capacity.
Page 36 - The impeachability of the offenses charged in the articles was in most of the cases not denied. In one case, however, counsel for the defendant insisted that impeachment would not lie for any but an indictable offense; but after exhaustive argument on both sides this defense was practically abandoned.