Prohibiting the Manufacture and Sale of Alcoholic Liquors in the District of Columbia: Hearing[s] Before Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Sixty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1082, to Prevent the Manufacture and Sale of Alcoholic Liquors in the District of Columbia, and for Other Purposes ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 |
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Página 31 - Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by any intoxicated .person, or in consequence of the intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any person...
Página 32 - ... a married woman shall have the same right to bring suits and to control the same and the amount recovered as a feme sole, and all damages recovered by a minor under this Act shall be paid either to such minor or to his or her parent, guardian or next friend, as the court shall direct; and...
Página 271 - We are told by the greatest of British orators and statesmen, that at the commencement of the war of the revolution the most stupid men in England spoke of ' their American subjects.' Are there, indeed, citizens of any of our States who have dreamed of their subjects in the District of Columbia ? Such dreams can never be realized by any agency of mine. " The people of the District of Columbia are not the subjects of the people of the States, but free American citizens. Being in the latter condition,...
Página 271 - Independently of the difficulty of inducing the representatives of distant states to turn their attention to projects of laws, which are not of the highest interest to their constituents, they are not individually, nor in congress collectively, well qualified to legislate over the local concerns of this district. Consequently, its interests are much neglected, and the people are almost afraid to present their grievances, lest a body, in which they are not represented, and which feels little sympathy...
Página 82 - The situation of this district, it is thought, requires the attention of Congress. By the constitution the power of legislation is exclusively vested in the Congress of the United States. In the exercise of this power, in which the people have no participation, Congress legislate in all cases directly on the local concerns of the district. As this is a departure, for a special purpose, from the general principles of our system, it may merit consideration whether an arrangement better adapted to the...
Página 271 - Constitution, which provides that the Congress shall have power: "To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States...
Página 78 - Congress may by law direct, shall be, and the same is hereby forever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right, and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the government of the United States.
Página 21 - ... liquor is received or kept for the purpose of use, gift, barter, or sale, or for distribution or division among the members of any club or association by any means whatsoever, or who shall maintain what is commonly known as the "locker system...
Página 83 - That every free white male citizen of the United States, above the age of twentyone years...
Página 271 - ... idea of his own rights as an American citizen — the grant to Congress of exclusive jurisdiction in the District of Columbia can be interpreted, so far as respects the aggregate people of the United States, as meaning nothing more than to allow to Congress the controlling power necessary to afford a free and safe exercise of the functions assigned to the General Government by the Constitution. In all other respects the legislation of Congress should be adapted to their peculiar position and...