Retirement System for Employees of Carriers: Hearing Before a Subcommittee...on S. 3151...July 11, 15, and 22, 1935 |
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... reason of the fact that he is busy in connection with hearings of the Committee on Public Lands , of which committee he is chairman . Can we now get a general idea of about how many witnesses are going to appear at this hearing ? Mr ...
... reason of the fact that he is busy in connection with hearings of the Committee on Public Lands , of which committee he is chairman . Can we now get a general idea of about how many witnesses are going to appear at this hearing ? Mr ...
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... reason that I am almost obliged to be away tomorrow by reason of a long - standing engagement that it is impossible to postpone . Beyond that , I have no request or suggestion to make . Senator BROWN . I will say this , that unless ...
... reason that I am almost obliged to be away tomorrow by reason of a long - standing engagement that it is impossible to postpone . Beyond that , I have no request or suggestion to make . Senator BROWN . I will say this , that unless ...
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... reason I will rest with this brief opening state- ment and allow Mr. Krauthoff to make the general presentation for the organizations representing the employees involved in these proceedings . STATEMENT OF EDWIN A. KRAUTHOFF , COUNSEL ...
... reason I will rest with this brief opening state- ment and allow Mr. Krauthoff to make the general presentation for the organizations representing the employees involved in these proceedings . STATEMENT OF EDWIN A. KRAUTHOFF , COUNSEL ...
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... reason of their past service or by reason of being on the seniority list , they have the right to go back into service when there is a vacancy . That is known as sustaining an employment relation . We have at the outset in this bill ...
... reason of their past service or by reason of being on the seniority list , they have the right to go back into service when there is a vacancy . That is known as sustaining an employment relation . We have at the outset in this bill ...
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... reason why a man who went into the service of a railroad and had his leg cut off the first month he was in the employ of the railroad , should not immediately be put on an annuity . Of course , his annuity would be so small as to be ...
... reason why a man who went into the service of a railroad and had his leg cut off the first month he was in the employ of the railroad , should not immediately be put on an annuity . Of course , his annuity would be so small as to be ...
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Page 16 - The party who invokes the power must be able to show not only that the statute is invalid but that he has sustained or is immediately in danger of sustaining some direct injury as the result of its enforcement, and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally.
Page 101 - carrier" shall not include any street, interurban, or suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power.
Page 129 - Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited by the constitution ; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not intrusted to the government, it would become the painful duty of this tribunal, should a case requiring such a decision come before it, to say that such an act was not the law of the land.
Page 12 - Notwithstanding any other law of the United States, or of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, no annuity or pension payment shall be assignable or be subject to any tax or to garnishment, attachment, or other legal process under any circumstances whatsoever, nor shall the payment thereof be anticipated.
Page 40 - ... prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term; and (2) the terms of office of the members first taking office after the date of enactment of this Act...
Page 29 - employee" as used herein includes every person in the service of a carrier (subject to its continuing authority to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service...
Page 58 - Personnel SEC. 10. (a) There is hereby established as an independent agency in the executive branch of the Government a Railroad Retirement Board, to be composed of three members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each member shall hold office for a term of five years, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of the term and...
Page 121 - In our view the necessary effect of this act is, by means of a prohibition against the movement in interstate commerce of ordinary commercial commodities, to regulate the hours of labor of children in factories and mines within the States — a purely State authority. Thus the act in a twofold sense is repugnant to the Constitution. It not only transcends the authority delegated to Congress over commerce, but also exerts a power as to a purely local matter to which the Federal authority does not...
Page 39 - carrier" includes any express company, sleeping-car company, carrier by railroad, subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and any company which is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by or under common control with any carrier by railroad and which operates any equipment or facilities or performs any service (other than trucking service) in connection with the transportation, receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property transported...
Page 24 - So long as the motive of Congress and the effect of its legislative action are to secure revenue for the benefit of the general government, the existence of other motives in the selection of the subjects of taxes cannot invalidate Congressional action.