Amendment to Packers and Stockyards Act: Hearings Before ..., 70-1 on S. 2506 and S. 3368 ..., February 29, 1928 |
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amendment Armour Armour & Co ARTHUR CAPPER big packers BIXBY BRITE buy hogs Capper-Hope bill Capper-Volstead Act CASEY cattle cent central markets CHAIRMAN City public stockyards commission committee concentration points CREIGH direct buying direct marketing Doctor MILLER effect ESPY farmer February February 14 feeder Fowler Packing Fowler Packing Co Growers handling HORMEL hundredweight KANS Kansas City market Kansas City public Kansas City stockyards KETNER LASATER legislation livestock in commerce livestock producers market agency market days MEYERS Mistletoe stockyards Mistletoe yards NEFF open market operation order buyers packers and stockyards packing plant practice price of hogs private stockyards private yards provisions public markets purchased receipts Secretary of Agriculture section 302 selling Senator CAPPER Senator CARAWAY Senator FRAZIER Senator HEFLIN Senator KENDRICK Senator MAYFIELD Senator SHIPSTEAD shipment shipper shipping associations slaughter statement stockyard owner stockyard services stockyards act terminal markets territory weight WOODMAN
Popular passages
Page 5 - ... liable to the person or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation of the provisions of this act...
Page 73 - It shall be unlawful for any packer or any live poultry dealer or handler 31 to: (a) Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device in commerce ; or (b) Make or give, in commerce, any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect whatsoever, or subject...
Page 50 - No complaint shall at any time be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.
Page 5 - If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 6 - Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device in commerce; or (b) Make or give, in commerce, any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person or locality in any respect whatsoever, or subject, in commerce, any particular person or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever...
Page 5 - States of competent jurisdiction ; but this section shall not in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, and the provisions of this act are in addition to such remedies.
Page 2 - When used in this title the term "stockyard " means any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as stockyards, conducted or operated for compensation or profit as a public market, consisting of pens, or other inclosures, and their appurtenances, in which live cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats are received, held, or kept for sale or shipment in commerce.
Page 164 - It shall be the duty of every stockyard owner and market agency to furnish upon reasonable request, without discrimination, reasonable stockyard services nt such stockyard: * * *
Page 2 - Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line of railroad...
Page 5 - Civil penalties owed under this Act shall be paid to the Secretary for deposit into the Treasury of the United States and shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil action...