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Brief for the Affirmative.W. C. Green and W. L. Munro. Best single references.- Senate Minority report, Senate Mis. Doc. No. 109, 50th Congress, 1st session, p. 38, and Speech of William L. Putnam, at Portland, in above report, Appendix...
...treaty as the full measure of its rights, and to be content with it forever," and in the face of all this allows British North American fishing vessels possession of all commercial rights in all the ports and waters of the United States:- Sen. Misc. Doc., No 109, fiftieth Congress, first session, pp. 1-38, especially...
...were never intended for general circulation; but this action of the treasury established a deplorable precedent, which those in favor of paper money in later years did not fail to make use of. Up to 1861, all attempts to make paper money a legal tender were indignantly rejected by congress. But the breaking out of the Civil War made such action both just and necessary...
...right of Congress to enact such legislation is derived either from the power "to lay taxes" or "to regulate commerce...
...National legislation will be use-less (a) taxation will affect those trusts only whose existence depends on revenue laws.- John Sherman, Congressional Record, 50th congress, second session, p. 7513. (b) Congress has no power over commerce, corporations, or partnership within a state.- Fiftieth congress, second session...