Packer Amendments: Hearings Before ..., 67-2, May 2, 4, and 6, 19221922 - 130 pages |
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amendment Attorney authority BOWEN buying cattle cents per head CHAIRMAN CLAGUE committee complaint Congress cooperate dealers Department of Agriculture duty employees enforcement Federal Government Federal law filed furnish gentlemen Gilbert N grain GREEN hearing hogs inspection interstate commerce intrastate JONES jurisdiction KINCHELOE legislation Legislature license Live Stock Exchange market agency matter MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan Minn Minnesota Minnesota Legislature MONTGOMERY MORRILL operation opinion owner or market packer act packers and stockyards Paul market Paul stockyards Paul yards person provides public stockyards PUTNAM question railroad and warehouse RAINEY reasonable regulation scales Secretary of Agri Secretary of Agriculture selling shippers of live South Dakota South St stockyard owner stockyard services stockyards act stockyards company supervision supervisor Supreme Court Swift & Co thing THOMPSON TINCHER tion Union Stock Yards warehouse commission weighers weighing charge weighing of live weighing service
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Page 91 - SEC. 403. When construing and enforcing the provisions of this act, the act.omission, of failure of any agent, officer, or other person acting for or employed by any packer, stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer, within the scope of his employment or office, shall in every case also be deemed the act, omission, or failure of such packer, stockyard owner,
Page 90 - (f) If the defendant does not comply with an order for the payment of money money within the time limit in such order, the complainant, or any person for whose benefit such order was made, may within one year of the date of the order file in the district court of the United
Page 97 - cattle are sent for sale from a place in one State, with the expectation that they will end their transit, after purchase, in another, and when in effect they do so. with only the interruption necessary to find a purchaser at the stock yards. and when this is a typical, constantly recurring course, the current
Page 90 - (e) If after hearing on a complaint the Secretary determines that the complainant is entitled to an award of damages, the Secretary shall make an order directing the defendant to pay to the complainant the sum to which he is entitled on or before a day named. SEC. 310.
Page 125 - says that he is the attorney general of the State of Minnesota, that he has read the foregoing complaint and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of his own knowledge and belief, except as to
Page 89 - briefly state the facts, whereupon the complaint thus made shall be forwarded by the Secretary to the defendant, who shall be called upon to satisfy the complaint, or to answer it in writing, within a reasonable time to
Page 92 - of this act and may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, not in conflict with existing
Page 89 - had been appealed to by petition, including the power to make and enforce any order or orders in the case or relating to the matter or thing concerning which the inquiry is had, except orders for the payment of money. (d) No complaint shall at any time "be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant. (f) If the defendant
Page 90 - stockyard owner, market agency, or dealer to engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory, or deceptive practice or device in connection with the receiving, marketing, buying or selling on a commission basis or otherwise, feeding, watering, holding, delivery, shipment, weighing or handling, in commerce at a stockyard, of live stock.
Page 92 - person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. Approved, August 15, 1921.