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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... removed the infected spot and by its heroic treatment , let it be hoped , made any recurrence of the disease improbable , if not impossible . Then , on the same page , in an editorial CONDUCT OF JUDGE KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS . 5.
... removed the infected spot and by its heroic treatment , let it be hoped , made any recurrence of the disease improbable , if not impossible . Then , on the same page , in an editorial CONDUCT OF JUDGE KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS . 5.
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... removal . For such conduct a player may be declared by the commissioner temporarily or per- manently ineligible to play for any club which is a party to this agreement . SEC . 4. In the case of conduct detrimental to baseball by ...
... removal . For such conduct a player may be declared by the commissioner temporarily or per- manently ineligible to play for any club which is a party to this agreement . SEC . 4. In the case of conduct detrimental to baseball by ...
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... removed for ill behavior because he accepted a bribe ? Mr. BOIES . Has good behavior anything to do with the charge . Mr. WELTY . He is appointed " during good behavior " under the Constitution , and being appointed " during good ...
... removed for ill behavior because he accepted a bribe ? Mr. BOIES . Has good behavior anything to do with the charge . Mr. WELTY . He is appointed " during good behavior " under the Constitution , and being appointed " during good ...
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... removal of Sec- retary of War Stanton in violatiton of the so - called tenure of office act , ( b ) in attempting to induce a general of the Army to violate a law , and ( c ) by attempting to bring Congress into contempt and reproach by ...
... removal of Sec- retary of War Stanton in violatiton of the so - called tenure of office act , ( b ) in attempting to induce a general of the Army to violate a law , and ( c ) by attempting to bring Congress into contempt and reproach by ...
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... removal from office , and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor , trust , or profit under the United ... removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason , bribery , or other high crimes and misdemeanors ...
... removal from office , and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor , trust , or profit under the United ... removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason , bribery , or other high crimes and misdemeanors ...
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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.