Loans for Relief of Drainage Districts: Hearings Before the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4650, to Provide for the Relief of Farmers in Any State by Making of Loans to Drainage Districts, Levee Districts, Levee and Drainage Districts, Irrigation And/or Similar Districts Other Than Federal Reclamation Projects, Or to Counties, Boards of Supervisors, And/or Other Political Subdivisions and Legal Entities and for Other Purposes

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الصفحة 277 - 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 a result of its enforcement, and not merely that he suffers in some indefinite way in common with people generally.
الصفحة 136 - That there is hereby appropriated the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary...
الصفحة 277 - ... burden is imposed upon the states, unequally or otherwise? Certainly there is none, unless it be the burden of taxation, and that falls upon their inhabitants, who are within the taxing power of Congress as well as that of the states where they reside.
الصفحة 111 - Williamson (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order and we will proceed with the hearing.
الصفحة 22 - If there are any other questions, I will be glad to answer them, if I may, otherwise I believe there is no real use of taking any more time of your committee.
الصفحة 273 - No organization entitled to the privileges of this title, shall, without the approval of the Federal Farm Loan Board, be allowed to discount with any Federal Intermediate Credit Bank any note or other obligation, upon which the original borrower has been charged a rate of interest exceeding by more than...
الصفحة 275 - If the general purpose of the instrument is ascertained, the language of its provisions must be construed with reference to that purpose and so as to subserve it.
الصفحة 277 - If one taxpayer may champion and litigate such a cause, then every other taxpayer may do the same, not only in respect to the statute here under review, but also in respect of every other appropriation act and statute whose administration requires the outlay of public money, and whose validity may be questioned.
الصفحة 277 - It is of much significance that no precedent sustaining the right to maintain suits like this has been called to our attention, although, since the formation of the government, as an examination of the acts of Congress will disclose, a large number of statutes appropriating or involving the expenditure of moneys for non-federal purposes have been enacted and carried into effect.
الصفحة 277 - The administration of any statute, likely to produce additional taxation to be imposed upon a vast number of taxpayers, the extent of whose several liability is indefinite and constantly changing, is essentially a matter of public and not of individual concern.

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