Investigation of the Attorney General: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Investigation of the Attorney General, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 157, Directing a Committee to Investigate the Failure of the Attorney General to Prosecute Or Defend Certain Criminal and Civil Actions, Wherein the Government is Interested, March 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17-[June 2, 4, 6, 7, 16, 17, 18, and 19,] 1924, Parts 9-11U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 |
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Page 2386 - The head of each department is authorized to prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the government of his department, the conduct of its officers and clerks, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property appertaining to it.
Page 2385 - The province of the court is, solely, to decide on the rights of individuals, not to inquire how the executive, or executive officers, perform duties in which they have a discretion. Questions in their nature political, or which are, by the constitution and laws, submitted to the executive, can never be made in this court.
Page 2638 - DC, then and there to testify what you may know relative to the subject matters under consideration by said committee.
Page 2386 - The President of the United States, and the Governors of the several States are not bound to produce papers or disclose information communicated to them, where, in their own judgment, the disclosure would on public considerations be inexpedient.
Page 2471 - That would l>e. 1 should judge, in the latter part of February or the early part of March, 1922.
Page 2626 - Jarneoke were indicted by a Federal grand Jury in the southern district of New York.
Page 2328 - Let men who are rending the moral fiber of the Republic through easy contempt for the prohibition law, because they think it restricts their personal liberty, remember that they set the example and breed a contempt for law which will ultimately destroy the Republic. Constitutional prohibition has been adopted by the Nation. It is the supreme law of the land. In plain speaking, there are conditions relating to its enforcement which savor of nation-wide scandal. It is the most demoralizing factor in...
Page 2915 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose...
Page 2388 - The principle laid down in that case was, that it is the duty of every citizen to communicate to his govern•ment any information which he has of the commission of an offense against its laws...
Page 2836 - Lee wrote him a letter from the national association on the letterhead of the National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico.