Investigation of Public Utility Corporations: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on S. Res. 83, Parte1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - 257 páginas
 

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Página 1 - ... corporations doing an interstate or international business supplying either electrical energy in the form of power or light or both, however produced, or gas, natural or artificial, of corporations holding the stocks of two or more...
Página 1 - States, and of nonpublic utility corporations owned or controlled by such holding companies; (2) the method of issuing, the price realized, or value received, the commissions or bonuses paid or received, and other pertinent facts with respect to the various 'security issues of all classes of corporations herein named, including the bonds and other evidences of indebtedness thereof...
Página 1 - ... and/or their associated, affiliated, and/or subsidiary companies, the fees, commissions, bonuses, or other charges made therefor, and the...
Página 1 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 212, Senate Office Building, Senator James E.
Página 2 - The chairman of said committee or any member of any subcommittee may administer oaths to witnesses and sign subpoenas for witnesses ; and every person duly summoned before said committee, or any subcommittee thereof, who refuses or fails to obey the process of said committee or who appears and refuses to answer questions pertinent to said investigation shall be punished as prescribed by law.
Página 1 - The commission is further empowered to inquire and report whether, and to what extent, such corporations or any of the officers thereof or any one in their behalf or in behalf of any organization of which any such corporation may be a member, through the expenditure of money or through the control of the avenues of publicity, have made any and what effort to influence or control public opinion on account of municipal or public ownership of the means by which power is developed and electrical energy...
Página 2 - ... to said investigation, shall be punished as prescribed by / law. The expenses of said investigation shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate on vouchers of the committee or subcommittee, signed by the chairman and approved by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate.
Página 1 - That the said committee is hereby authorized to sit and perform its duties at such times and places as it deems necessary or proper, and to require the attendance of witnesses by...
Página 8 - ... of the justices concurred, where it appeared that the judgment for the debt had been reversed, the court held on appeal from the judgment in favor of the judgment creditor setting aside and annulling a transfer of the debtor's property on the ground of fraud, that the latter must also be reversed. In the course of the opinion in that case the court said: "It is to be observed that the sole basis sustaining the right of...
Página 2 - The committee, or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit during the sessions or the recesses of the Senate, and until otherwise ordered by the Senate.

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