James M. Beck Election Case, First District of Pennsylvania: Hearings Before the Committee on Election No. 2, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session. By Authority of House Resolution No. 9. TestimonyU.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - Počet stran: 229 |
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1414 Spruce Street admitted appear Art Club assessment assessor BACHMANN ballot BASS BAXTER Beck's name Bellevue-Stratford Hotel BROMLEY BROWNING called CARPENTER CASSIDY CHAIRMAN Citizens Party city of Philadelphia committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY congressional district Constitution COOPER CRAIL December delphia DOUGLASS duly sworn election EMHARDT fact FARY GARRETT gentleman GREENFIELD Hazlett Hintelman J. M. Beck James Jersey Joseph Gantt KEELY KENT Kolberg LATTA lease LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS live matter MCCULLAN ment Miss LEWIS mittee nominated nonresident member o'clock O'CONNELL occupied paid Pennsylvania PERKINS personal property Phila poll tax primary question RATHBONE recollection record recorder of deeds registered rent residence ROESCH RYAN Seabright seat September Sesquicentennial Sesquicentennial Exposition seventh ward side of Spruce statement subpoena tax receipt tell Tenant testify testimony tion vote voter Washington WILLIAMS WILSON witness was duly York
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Strana 46 - For the purpose of voting no person shall be deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his presence, or lost it by reason of his absence, while employed in the service, either civil or military, of this State or of the United States...
Strana 45 - State one year (or, having previously been a qualified elector or native born citizen of the State, he shall have removed therefrom and returned , then six months) , immediately preceding the election.
Strana 200 - Thank you, very much. (Thereupon, at 12.55 o'clock pm, the committee took a recess until 2.30 o'clock this afternoon.) AFTER RECESS Pursuant to recess, the committee met in committee room 321,.
Strana 1 - Representative elect to the Seventieth Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, is ineligible to a seat in the House of Representatives for the reason that he was not at the time of his election an inhabitant of the State of Pennsylvania in the sense of the provision of the Constitution of the United States (par.
Strana 46 - He shall have resided in the election district where he shall offer to vote at least two months immediately preceding the election, fourth. If twenty-two years of age or upwards he shall have paid within two years a State or county tax, which shall have been assessed at least two months and paid at least one month before the election.
Strana 3 - Beck shall not be sworn in nor be entitled to the privileges of the floor; and said Committee shall have power to send for persons and papers and examine witnesses on oath relative to the subjectmatter on this resolution. ' ' RESIDENCE OF MR. BECK IS CHALLENGED "Mr. Speaker, the information which has come to me,
Strana 2 - I desire the committee to understand, that there was and is nothing of personal animus so far as I am concerned and, so far as I know, so far as any others are concerned. I think perhaps I ought to add to what I say, as to there being no personal animus, that there is no political animus. My party would derive no advantage, knowing...
Strana 15 - This would render the meaning less indeterminate. Mr. Wilson. If a short term should be inserted in the blank, so strict an expression might be construed to exclude the members of the Legislature, who could not be said to be actual residents in their States whilst at the Seat of the Genl.
Strana 7 - Having, to the best of my judgment, done this, I adhere to that interpretation without attempting to bend or twist it to answer, by a strained construction, any other purpose — which, were I to do, I should be guilty of treason against my understanding and my moral sense. I have applied this rule to that part of the Constitution which says " that no person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of 25 years, and been 7 years a citizen of the United States, and who shall...
Strana 118 - It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to pay or cause to be paid any occupation or poll tax assessed against any elector, except on the written and signed order of such elector authorizing such payment to be made...