Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First[-fourth] Session...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Agriculture |
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acres American Trading American Trading Co appropriation areas Argentine Government Argentine sugar ASWELL Attorney AYRES B. H. Howell bill bought Budget Buenos Aires cent a pound cents per pound CHAIRMAN claim CLARKE commission Committee on Agriculture Congress cost Cuba Department of Justice examination export EYCK fact Figg FRANK CLAGUE FRANKLIN GERNERD GILBERT N GLASGOW HAUGEN HAWLEY hearings Ingenio San JACOWAY JONES KINCHELOE KNEIPP land letter Lever Act loss matter MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan ment National Forest National Sugar Refining navigable streams opinion P. A. H. Ingenio papers POST president price of sugar profit purchase PURNELL question record request rerefined resolution RIDDICK RILEY RONDE Secretary WEEKS sell Senator WADSWORTH SHERMAN sold statement submit Sugar Equalization Board TEN EYCK testimony thing timber TINCHER tion told tons transaction understand United WARD Weeks Act Weeks law York
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Page 13 - An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel...
Page 59 - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I do not know that I can add anything to the statement made by Mr.
Page 17 - There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not more than $100,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of this section.
Page 6 - ... committees Mr. Diehl has in mind. I would like to hear myself. I thought our interest as far as disposal was concerned was confined, sir, to the Stockpile Disposal Committee. But Mr. Diehl may have another committee in mind that I do not know about. Mr. EDMONDSON. Mr. Diehl has left me in the air. I do not know how other members of the committee feel about it. Mr. SAYLOR. If the chairman will yield, I would like to observe to my colleague, to Mr. White of Idaho, that if this is the knowledge...
Page 13 - Authorizing the President to require the United States Sugar Equalization Board (Inc.) to take over and dispose of 13,902 tons of sugar imported from the Argentine Republic.
Page 35 - ... Corporation, was one letter. That is between the Department of Justice and the American Trading Co. I am not talking about the State Department. Mr. HALL. That is, at the time the arrangement was made? Mr. RILEY. Yes, sir. The CHAIRMAN. Is that all, Mr. Riley? Mr. RILEY. I think so. Senator WADSWORTH. I would like to ask a question, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. Very well, Senator. Mr. RILEY. There is one other thing I would like to mention. After that the De Ronde Co. applied for a license to...
Page 15 - debts' includes those debts or claims which rest upon a merely equitable or honorary obligation, and which would not be recoverable in a court of law if existing against an individual. The nation, speaking broadly, owes a 'debt' to an individual when his claim grows out of general principles of right and justice, — when, in other words, it is based upon considerations of a moral or merely honorary nature, such as are binding on the conscience or the honor of an individual, although the debt could...
Page 11 - ... so far as I am concerned, I am perfectly willing to take the opinion of the Department of Justice as to the legality of this claim.
Page 6 - Mr. Aswell, Mr. Kincheloe, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Ten Eyck. The CHAIRMAN. The committee has met this morning to give consideration to HR 5901.
Page 30 - ... satisfactory or whether it would be inconvenient to anybody if you did not meet until tomorrow morning. Senator PHIPPS. Well, I think not. Senator JONES. I would like to be present. Senator PHIPPS. And I would like for you to be present, too, Senator Jones. If there is no objection we will adjourn until 10.30 o'clock tomorrow morning. (Thereupon, at 12.10 o'clock pm, the committee adjourned to meet at 10.30 o'clock am, of the following morning...