 | United States - 1908 - 928 pages
...required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel equally sure that neither of these bodies possesses the general power...making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. (103 US, 189-190.) Now, I think the court did construe that branch of the statement by saving that... | |
 | Law - 1896 - 380 pages
...required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel equally sure that neither of these bodies possesses the general power...making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. • • But we do not concede that the Houses of Congress possess this general power of punishing for... | |
 | Law - 1885 - 980 pages
...is required in a matter into which the house has jurisdiction to inquire, and that neither of those bodies possesses the general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. To the like effect is the opinion of the supreme court of Massachusetts in the case of Burnham v. Morristey,... | |
 | Charles Ellewyn George - Banking law - 1919 - 428 pages
...less any merely administrative body, established by Congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen." This genera] principle has been frequently asserted. In In re Chapman, 166 TJ. S. 661, 668, Mr. Chief... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1914 - 474 pages
...still less any merely administrative body, established by Congress, possesses or can be invested with a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen." Mr. Justice HARLAN, speaking for the Court, said : "We said in Boyd vs. United States, 116 US 616,... | |
 | United States. Federal Trade Commission - Trade regulation - 1930 - 1274 pages
...less and merely administrative body established by the Congress, possesses, or can be vested with, a to be illegal combinations or conspiracies (Interstate Commerce Comaniaaion v. Urimton, 154 US 478.) As was said by Mr. Justice Brewer in In re... | |
 | Riddhi Dasgupta - Law - 2006 - 718 pages
...Carroll decisions, a case called Kilbourn v. Thompson (1881) had said that Congress "possesses [no] general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen." These values reflect where we are headed in light of tradition. It should not, then, come as a surprise... | |
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House by fine or imprisonment goes beyond this or not, we are sure that no person can be punished for contumacy as a witness before either House, unless his testimony is required in a matter into which that House has jurisdiction to inquire, and we feel... 
