Prohibiting Intoxicating Beverages: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session, on the Bills to Prohibit the Liquor Traffic and to Provide for the Enforcement of Such Prohibition and the War Prohibition Act ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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... authority for the Federal Government now projecting itself into the States and interfering with purely domestic and local affairs , until a Federal law shall have been enacted under the Federal amendment which does not go into effect ...
... authority for the Federal Government now projecting itself into the States and interfering with purely domestic and local affairs , until a Federal law shall have been enacted under the Federal amendment which does not go into effect ...
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... authority to assume the powers of the States to control the liquor traffic . But the point I wanted to get your view upon , Mr. Gompers , was this : In some instances there are State laws , based on provisions of State constitutions ...
... authority to assume the powers of the States to control the liquor traffic . But the point I wanted to get your view upon , Mr. Gompers , was this : In some instances there are State laws , based on provisions of State constitutions ...
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... authority to prohibit something that is not actually intoxicating , it would not have the authority to permit something that was actually intoxicating , would it ? Mr. GOMPERS . I think not , sir . Senator NORRIS . I would like to read ...
... authority to prohibit something that is not actually intoxicating , it would not have the authority to permit something that was actually intoxicating , would it ? Mr. GOMPERS . I think not , sir . Senator NORRIS . I would like to read ...
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... authority to enact such measures as will carry into effect and put in force that constitutional decree of the people . This is our viewpoint , that Congress , by virtue of that constitu- tional enactment , has now been vested with the ...
... authority to enact such measures as will carry into effect and put in force that constitutional decree of the people . This is our viewpoint , that Congress , by virtue of that constitu- tional enactment , has now been vested with the ...
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... authority will have to come from the inferior courts first , and afterwards it will go to the superior courts , and then to the Supreme Court . Senator NORRIS . Yes . Mr. WOLL . We contend that that is a function of Congress , and if it ...
... authority will have to come from the inferior courts first , and afterwards it will go to the superior courts , and then to the Supreme Court . Senator NORRIS . Yes . Mr. WOLL . We contend that that is a function of Congress , and if it ...
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Page 289 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York.
Page 344 - 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 60 - In other words, the exceptional nature of the subject here regulated is the basis upon which the exceptional power exerted must rest, and affords no ground for any fear that such power may be constitutionally extended to things which it may not, consistently with the guaranties of the Constitution, embrace.
Page 274 - Sciences, edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Diagnosis, in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia...
Page 126 - President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said seventyfive per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code...
Page 66 - ... or own, keep, or be in any way concerned, engaged or employed in owning or keeping any intoxicating liquor with intent to violate any provision of this chapter, or authorize or permit the same to be done...
Page 125 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 127 - war prohibition act" used in this act shall mean the provisions of any act or acts prohibiting the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors until the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termination of demobilization, the date of which shall be determined and proclaimed by the President of the United States.
Page 73 - ... weak, the old and the young, the well and the sick; and it is intended that if any flour, because of any added poisonous or other deleterious ingredient, may possibly injure the health of any of these, it shall come within the ban of the statute. If it cannot by any possibility, when the facts are reasonably considered, injure the health of any consumer, such flour, though having a small addition of poisonous or deleterious ingredients, may not be condemned under the act.
Page 161 - liquor ' or the phrase ' intoxicating liquor ' shall be construed to include alcohol, brandy, whisky, rum, gin, beer, ale, porter, and wine, and in addition thereto any spirituous, vinous, malt, or fermented liquor, liquids, and compounds, whether medicated, proprietary, patented, or not, and by whatever name called, containing one-half of 1 per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes...