Street Railway Conditions in Th District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate Street Railway Conditions in the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, First Session, Purusant to S. Res. No. 23, a Resolution to Appoint a Committee to Investigate the Cause which Occasioned the Existing Strike by the Employees of the Washington Railway and Electric Company and Report the Result of Such Investigation to the Senate, Μέρη 12-16U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 |
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ACTING CHAIRMAN agreement Amalgamated Association arbitration asked BARBOUR barn BLACKMAN BOWERS BROCKMAN CAIN called Capital Traction CARRINGTON cents CLAYTON closed shop commissioners conductor conference Congress COOKMAN discharged DISNEY District of Columbia Electric Co fact gentlemen GEUDER GLASSCOCK GORBUTT grievance committee hear HOOVER individual contract join the union KIMBALL KLURG labor letter Mahon MANGAN March March 11 matter MAUPIN MCDANIEL McMORROW meeting Miss GOLDMARK MOFFETT motorman never Newman night nonunion operation organization paid PAYNE PETERS President King Public Utilities Commission question railroad Railway & Electric record relief association remember road Senator JOHNSON Senator JONES Senator KING signed statement street railway strike breakers submitted talk testified testimony thing Third Avenue Third Avenue Railroad Third Avenue Railway tion to-day told VAHEY wages WALKER Washington Railway Wilburt witness
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Σελίδα 1720 - Constitution, grants are comprehended under the term contracts, is a grant from the State excluded from the operation of the provision ? Is the clause to be considered as inhibiting the State from impairing the obligation of contracts between two individuals, but as excluding from that inhibition contracts made with itself? The words themselves contain no such distinction. They are general, and are applicable to contracts of every description.
Σελίδα 1718 - The fundamental maxims of a free government seem to require, that the rights of personal liberty and private property should be held sacred. At least no court of justice in this country would be warranted in assuming, that the power to violate and disregard them...
Σελίδα 1717 - There are certain vital principles in our free Republican governments, which will determine and overrule an apparent and flagrant abuse of legislative power; as to authorize manifest injustice by positive law; or to take away that security for personal liberty, or private property, for the protection of which the government was established.
Σελίδα 1717 - I cannot subscribe to the omnipotence of a state legislature, or that it is absolute and without control, although its authority should not be expressly restrained by the constitution, or fundamental law of the State. The people of the United States erected their constitutions, or forms of government, to establish justice, to promote the general welfare, to secure the blessings of liberty; and to protect their persons and property from violence.
Σελίδα 1720 - An ex post facto law Is one which renders an act punishable in a manner In which it was not punishable when It was committed.
Σελίδα 1721 - SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any individual or member of any firm, or any agent, officer, or employee of any company or corporation, to coerce, require, demand, or influence any person or persons to enter into any agreement, either written or verbal, not to join or become or remain a member of any labor organization or association, as a condition of such person or persons securing employment, or continuing in the employment of such individual, firm, or corporation.
Σελίδα 1718 - We know of no case, in which a legislative act to transfer the property of A to B, without his consent, has ever been held a constitutional exercise of legislative power in any State in the Union. On the contrary, it has been constantly resisted as inconsistent with just principles, by every judicial tribunal in which it has been attempted to be enforced.
Σελίδα 1720 - Whatever respect might have been felt for the State sovereignties, it is not to be disguised that the framers of the Constitution viewed with some apprehension the violent acts which might grow out of the feelings of the moment; and that the people of the United States, in adopting that instrument, have manifested a determination to shield themselves and their property from the effects of those sudden and strong passions to which men are exposed.
Σελίδα 1717 - A law that punished a citizen for an innocent action, or, in other words, for an act, which, when done, was in violation of no existing law; a law that destroys, or impairs, the lawful private contracts of citizens; a law that makes a man a.
Σελίδα 1720 - The legislature is, then, prohibited from passing a law by which a man's estate, or any part of it. shall be seized for a crime which was not declared by some previous law to render him liable to that punishment. Why, then, should violence be done to the natural meaning of words for the purpose of leaving to the legislature the power of seizing, for public use, the estate of an individual, in the form of a law annulling the title by which he holds that estate ? The court can perceive no sufficient...