Inspections and Investigations in Coal Mines: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Mines and Mining, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, on S. 2420, a Bill Relating to Certain Inspections and Investigations in Coal Mines for the Purpose of Obtaining Information Relating to Health and Safety Conditions, Accidents, and Occupational Diseases Therein, and for Other Purposes. May 16,17,21,23,24,28,31, and June 4,6,7,11,13,14, 1940U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940 - 566 páginas |
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Página 518 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Página 297 - If it be held that the term includes the regulation of all such manufactures as are intended to be the subject of commercial transactions in the future, it is impossible to deny that it would also include all productive industries that contemplate the same thing. The result would be that Congress would be invested, to the exclusion of the States, with the power to regulate, not only manufactures, but also agriculture, horticulture, stock raising, domestic fisheries, mining — in short, every branch...
Página 276 - Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...
Página 299 - The act in its effect does not' regulate transportation among the States, but aims to standardize the ages at which children may be employed in mining and manufacturing within the States.
Página 298 - Mining is not interstate commerce, but like manufacturing, is a local business, subject to local regulation and taxation. ... Its character in this regard is intrinsic, is not affected by the intended use or disposal of the product, is not controlled by contractual engagements, and persists even though the business be conducted in close connection with interstate commerce.
Página 301 - National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, 301 US 1 (1937).
Página 523 - It might be argued with as much plausibility as other incidental powers have been assailed, that the convention was not unmindful of this subject. The oath which might be exacted — that of fidelity to the constitution — is prescribed, and no other can be required. Yet he would be charged with insanity who should contend that the legislature might not superadd to the oath directed by the constitution such other oath of office as its wisdom might suggest.
Página 309 - That it shall be the province and duty of the Bureau of Mines, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances...
Página 3 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Página 1 - Relating to certain inspections and investigations in coal mines for the purpose of obtaining information relating to health and safety conditions, accidents, and occupational diseases therein, and for other purposes...