Prohibiting Intoxicating Beverages: Hearings Before the Subcommittee...(66 Cong. 1st Sess.) Pt 1-3 |
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Page 290 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons In the City of New York.
Page 340 - State where he may be found, and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such State, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested and imprisoned, or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States as by law has cognizance of the offense.
Page 238 - It is also well established that, when a state exerting its recognized authority undertakes to suppress what it is free to regard as a public evil, it may adopt such measures having reasonable relation to that end as it may deem necessary in order to make its action effective. It does not follow that because a transaction, separately considered, is innocuous, it may not be included in a prohibition the scope of which is regarded as essential, in the legislative judgment, to accomplish a purpose within...
Page 340 - States, or by any commissioner of a circuit court to take bail, or by any chancellor, judge of a supreme or superior court, chief or first judge of common pleas, mayor of a city, justice of the peace, or other magistrate, of any State where he may be found, and agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such State...
Page 340 - Whenever the terms in which a power is granted to Congress, or the nature of the power, required that it should be exercised exclusively by Congress, the subject is as completely taken from the state legislatures as if they had been expressly forbidden to act on it.
Page 287 - I graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York...
Page 282 - ... per cent. From the point of view of the prevention of drunkenness, the superiority of the more dilute beverages, such as the lighter beers and natural wines, is therefore mainly due to the fact that the bulk of the fluid makes it difficult for the drinker to consume a very large dose of alcohol within a moderate period.
Page 222 - No permit shall be issued to any person who within one year prior to the application therefor or issuance thereof shall have violated the terms of any permit issued under this Title or any law of the United States or of any State regulating traffic in liquor.
Page 280 - As our practical conclusion, then, from the evidence at present available, we may say that any form of alcoholic liquor can cause drunkenness, if such a quantity of it is taken, at once or within a short time, as will lead to the presence of the drug in the blood above a certain proportion, which in the case of the average healthy adult, may be put provisionally at from the 0.15 to 0.2 per cent.
Page 340 - ... this Constitution and the laws of the United States, which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or the laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.