Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Indiana State Bar Associationorder of the Association, 1919 - Bar associations |
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66 Charles 66 Frank 66 George 66 James 66 John 66 Samuel 66 Thomas 66 William affiliated association amendment American Bar American Bar Association annual meeting appointed Arthur Asso Bar Asso Bar Association Board of Managers Boonville by-laws Charles W Commission committee Constitution County Bar Crumpacker decision dissenting opinion duty elected ELMER English Evansville Ewbank fifteen hundred dollars Frank E Gavin gentlemen George H Greensburg Hammond Hanan Harry Henry Indiana Indiana State Bar Indianapolis industry interest interstate commerce James L Joseph judicial Justice KETCHAM labor Lafayette language lawyers legal education legislative legislature Lemcke Marion matter membership ment Merrill Moores motion was seconded OGDEN organized practice PRESIDENT KEITH Princeton profession question railroad rates reason roads Rushville Salsbury SECRETARY BATCHELOR South Bend statute Stevenson Sullivan Supreme Court Terre Haute tion Treasurer Vernon VICE-PRESIDENT MONTGOMERY Vigo County volumes Wayne William W writing
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Page 167 - We know that this is a power which may be abused, but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts.
Page 172 - And, in order to ascertain that value, the original cost of construction, the amount expended in permanent improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses, are all matters for consideration, and are to be given such weight as may be just and right in each case. We do not say that...
Page 198 - This is not to say that Congress possesses the authority to regulate the internal commerce of a State, as such, but that it does possess the power to foster and protect interstate commerce, and to take all measures necessary or appropriate to that end, although intrastate transactions of interstate carriers may thereby be controlled.
Page 173 - We hold, however, that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public.
Page 164 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...
Page 206 - ... the whole people ruined and all the homes of the land submitted to a danger of the most serious character? And finally, to what derision would it not reduce the proposition that government had power to enforce the duty of operation, if that power did not extend to doing that which was essential to prevent operation from being completely stopped...
Page 14 - Knowledge and learning generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement, and to provide by law for a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge, and equally open to all.
Page 168 - This power to regulate is not a power to destroy, and limitation is not the equivalent of confiscation. Under pretence of regulating fares and freights, the State cannot require a railroad corporation to carry persons or property without reward ; neither can it do that which in law amounts to a taking of private property for public use without just compensation, or without due process of law.
Page 197 - The purpose was to make impossible the recurrence of the evils which had overwhelmed the Confederation and to provide the necessary basis of national unity by insuring 'uniformity of regulation against conflicting and discriminating state legislation.
Page 124 - The truth is, no such power can exist in the Legislative Department, or be sanctioned by any Court which has the least respect for its own dignity and independence. In its own sphere of duties, this Court cannot be trammeled by any legislative restrictions. Its constitutional duty is discharged by the rendition of decisions.