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... represented by several lawyers whose names I do not recall . A state district Judge by the name of Bowen , who afterwards was a United States Senator from Colorado , had prior to this time appointed a man by the name of Hunt , receiver ...
... represented by several lawyers whose names I do not recall . A state district Judge by the name of Bowen , who afterwards was a United States Senator from Colorado , had prior to this time appointed a man by the name of Hunt , receiver ...
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... represented in the Senate by George Graham Vest and Francis Mar- ion Cockrell . The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee to which my nomination was referred was Judge Hoar of Massachusetts . He , of course , made inquiries of the ...
... represented in the Senate by George Graham Vest and Francis Mar- ion Cockrell . The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee to which my nomination was referred was Judge Hoar of Massachusetts . He , of course , made inquiries of the ...
Page 232
... represented by me and my assistant , Horace L. Dyer . The defense was ably represented by Judge Chester H. Krum , Moses Whybark , W. H. Miller and Oliver & Oliver . The indictments were drawn under Sec . 5508 of the Revised Statutes ...
... represented by me and my assistant , Horace L. Dyer . The defense was ably represented by Judge Chester H. Krum , Moses Whybark , W. H. Miller and Oliver & Oliver . The indictments were drawn under Sec . 5508 of the Revised Statutes ...
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... represented in Congress by two abler men . Philips was , after his term in Con- gress expired , appointed by President Cleveland , Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri . This office he re ...
... represented in Congress by two abler men . Philips was , after his term in Con- gress expired , appointed by President Cleveland , Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri . This office he re ...
Page 272
... and recommend . A few days prior to the election this army of aliens would be marched into a court room and there divided into squads- one squad representing all from a particular county . One 272 Autobiography and Reminiscences.
... and recommend . A few days prior to the election this army of aliens would be marched into a court room and there divided into squads- one squad representing all from a particular county . One 272 Autobiography and Reminiscences.
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Page 38 - And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him...
Page 319 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — .left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 228 - SEC. 2. That section thirty-nine hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows : "SEC. 3929. The Postmaster-General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind...
Page 38 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.
Page 323 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 319 - It was the boast of Augustus — it formed part of the glare in which the perfidies of his earlier years were lost — that he found Rome of brick, and left it of marble ; a praise not unworthy a great prince, and to which the present reign also has its claims.
Page 246 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 232 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or Intimidate any citizen in the free exercise of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 319 - It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power. In every patent of office the duty is included. For what else does a magistrate exist ? To suppose for power is an absurdity in idea. Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are all subject.
Page 228 - States is at war, the Postmaster' General may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or concern is using the mails in violation of any of the provisions of this act, instruct the postmaster at any post office at which mail is received addressed to such person or concern to return to the postmaster at the office at which they were originally mailed all letters or other matter so addressed...