Independence for the Philippine Islands: Hearings Before the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, Second Session, on S. 204, a Bill Providing for the Withdrawal of the United States from the Philippine Islands; S. 3108, a Bill to Enable the People of the Philippine Islands to Adopt a Constitution, Etc. S.J. Res. 113, Joint Resolution Requesting the President to Call a Conference on the Philippine Question; S. Res. 199, Resolution to Investigate the Feasibility of Tariff Autonomy for the Philippines; S. 3379, a Bill to Enable the People of the Philippine Islands to Adopt a Constitution, Etc.; S. 3822, a Bill to Provide for the Withdrawal of the Sovereignty of the United States Over the Philippine Islands and for the Recognition of Their Independence, Etc. January 15, 20, February 3, 10, 17, 24, and March 10, 1930U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930 - 656 pages |
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Page 104
... Cotton Seed Crushers ' Association tariff committee . Mr. Chairman , I could ... oils and fats producing industries of the United States must have if they are ... oil is because it is used for making margarine , which is said to compete ...
... Cotton Seed Crushers ' Association tariff committee . Mr. Chairman , I could ... oils and fats producing industries of the United States must have if they are ... oil is because it is used for making margarine , which is said to compete ...
Page 108
... oil because of the reasons which have just been set forth in that statement . There will be plenty of vegetable oil ... cottonseed crusher first of all ; second , it hits the cotton producer , because many tons of cottonseed are going ...
... oil because of the reasons which have just been set forth in that statement . There will be plenty of vegetable oil ... cottonseed crusher first of all ; second , it hits the cotton producer , because many tons of cottonseed are going ...
Page 109
... Cottonseed Crushers ' Association in convention , Dallas , Tex . , January 13 , 1930 , by Ed Woodall , chairman ... oil and dried copra , from which coconut oil is produced , imported from the Philippine Islands tariff free ; and Whereas ...
... Cottonseed Crushers ' Association in convention , Dallas , Tex . , January 13 , 1930 , by Ed Woodall , chairman ... oil and dried copra , from which coconut oil is produced , imported from the Philippine Islands tariff free ; and Whereas ...
Page 111
... cottonseed oil industry , which is a $ 200,000,000 industry . We have a duty of 3 cents a pound on cottonseed oil , but that duty is nullified and that protection amounts to practically nothing when we put coconut oil from the ...
... cottonseed oil industry , which is a $ 200,000,000 industry . We have a duty of 3 cents a pound on cottonseed oil , but that duty is nullified and that protection amounts to practically nothing when we put coconut oil from the ...
Page 155
... oil will melt at body temperature . It possesses many characteristics that our domestic oils are totally lacking in ... Cottonseed oil was used formerly . Mr. BROWN . In the old days . Senator BROUSSARD . You have displaced cottonseed ...
... oil will melt at body temperature . It possesses many characteristics that our domestic oils are totally lacking in ... Cottonseed oil was used formerly . Mr. BROWN . In the old days . Senator BROUSSARD . You have displaced cottonseed ...
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Page 52 - ... that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 51 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 52 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Page 4 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 119 - Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein...
Page 507 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States.
Page 494 - ... the Commission should bear in mind that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our satisfaction, or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace and prosperity of the people of the Philippine Islands, and the measures adopted should be made to conform to their customs, their habits and even their prejudices, to the fullest extent consistent with the accomplishment of the indispensable requisites of just and effective government.
Page 2 - An Act To declare the purpose of the people of the United States as to the future political status of the people of the Philippine Islands, and to provide a more autonomous government for those islands.
Page 162 - ... before the Ways and Means Committee of the House and the Finance Committee of the Senate, the amendment was not adopted.
Page 50 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.