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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... scales used in the weighing of live stock or otherwise , shall forfeit to the State $ 100 for each offense . SEC . 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1 , 1920 . Approved September 22 , 1919 . This ...
... scales used in the weighing of live stock or otherwise , shall forfeit to the State $ 100 for each offense . SEC . 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1 , 1920 . Approved September 22 , 1919 . This ...
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... scales . It is just a question of granting State supervision over those scales . Mr. JONES . Section 305 gives the Secretary of Agriculture the right to control the charges for stockyard services generally , and there are some ...
... scales . It is just a question of granting State supervision over those scales . Mr. JONES . Section 305 gives the Secretary of Agriculture the right to control the charges for stockyard services generally , and there are some ...
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. scales , under the rules of those yards , the deal is closed . That is all provided for in the rules of the yard . Now , if I make any mistakes in my statement here Mr. Wells will ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. scales , under the rules of those yards , the deal is closed . That is all provided for in the rules of the yard . Now , if I make any mistakes in my statement here Mr. Wells will ...
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... scale in the yard . The interstate shipper wants supervision by the Government ; he does not want it by some State . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . It costs something to install the scales ; it costs some- thing to operate . He ought to ...
... scale in the yard . The interstate shipper wants supervision by the Government ; he does not want it by some State . Mr. MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan . It costs something to install the scales ; it costs some- thing to operate . He ought to ...
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... scales ; we will weigh your cattle and charge so much , " I would have the right as an individual citizen of this country to say , " No , sir ; there is a regulatory law ; the stockyards are under the regulation of the Government , and ...
... scales ; we will weigh your cattle and charge so much , " I would have the right as an individual citizen of this country to say , " No , sir ; there is a regulatory law ; the stockyards are under the regulation of the Government , and ...
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80 per cent amendment American Trading Co Argentine ASWELL Attorney authority bill board of trade BOGGS bond BOWEN Bureau butter fat CHAIRMAN charge CLAGUE claim CLARKE Congress contract cooperative Department of Agriculture Department of Justice Doctor CAMPBELL enforcement exchanges EYCK fact farmers FARRELL FRANK CLAGUE future trading future trading act GATES gentlemen Gilbert N going grain HAUGEN hearing interstate commerce JONES KINCHELOE LAMBORN legislation live stock market agency matter MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan Minnesota moisture MORRILL oleomargarine opinion packers and stockyards Paul provides public stockyards PURNELL question railroad and warehouse regulation require RILEY rule scales Secretary of Agriculture sell shipment shipped shippers South St standard statement stockyard owner stockyards act stockyards company sugar supervision Supreme Court TEN EYCK thing TINCHER tion transactions Union Stock Yards United VOIGT warehouse commission weighers wheat yards
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Page 71 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 69 - States a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each violation, which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil action brought by the United States.
Page 28 - Whatever amounts to more or less constant practice, and threatens to obstruct or unduly to burden the freedom of interstate commerce is within the regulatory power of Congress under the commerce clause, and it is primarily for Congress to consider and decide the fact of the danger and meet it.
Page 96 - When cattle are sent for sale from a place in one state, with the expectation that they will end their transit after purchase in another, and when, in effect they do so, with only the interruption necessary to find a purchaser at the stock yards, and when this is a typical, constantly recurring course, the current thus existing is a current of commerce among the states, and the purchase of the cattle is a part and incident of such commerce.
Page 69 - ... it shall be the duty of the commission to investigate the matters complained of in such manner and by such means as it shall deem proper.
Page 66 - An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes...
Page 78 - The authority of Congress extends to every part of interstate commerce, and to every instrumentality or agency by which it is carried on; and the full control by Congress of the subjects committed to its regulation is not to be denied or thwarted by the commingling of interstate and intrastate operations.
Page 72 - 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 67 - An act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine...
Page 68 - ... after full hearing, whether completed before or after the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the Commission may make such order with reference thereto as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after it had become effective.