Gold-clause Securities of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res 155, a Bill Authorizing Exchange of Certain Securities, Coins, and Currencies of the United States ; Withdrawing the Right to Sue the United States on Its Bonds and Other Similar Obligations ; Limiting the Use of Certain Appropriations ; and for Other Purposes. July 11, 12, 15, and 17, 1935U.S. Government Printing Office, 1935 - 92 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
actual damage amendment amount answer Attorney General CUMMINGS authority BANKING AND CURRENCY billion dollars bondholders BULKLEY cash CHAIRMAN citizen coins and currencies coins or currencies coming due COMMITTEE ON BANKING Congress consent contract course Court of Claims dollar for dollar eminent domain entitled to exchange give gold bonds gold obligation gold-clause bonds gold-clause obligation gold-clause securities Government bonds Government obligations HARLAN interest joint resolution July July 15 June 30 Justice LAYLIN legal tender legislation Liberty bonds matter maturity ment notes outstanding owners percent bonds present privilege public debt question remedy repudiate Secretary COOLIDGE Secretary MORGENTHAU sell Senator ADAMS Senator BARKLEY Senator GLASS Senator GORE Senator MALONEY Senator MCADOO Senator STEIWER Senator TOWNSEND Solicitor General REED sovereign Stat statement statute sued suits Supreme Court tion United withdrawing the right
Pasajes populares
Página 86 - All claims founded upon the constitution of the United States or any law of congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract express or implied with the government of the United States...
Página 4 - an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission ; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals or by another State. And as this permission is altogether voluntary on the part of the sovereignty, it follows that it may prescribe the terms and conditions on which it consents to be sued, and the manner...
Página 86 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty if the United States were suable...
Página 30 - Whereas the existing emergency has disclosed that provisions of obligations which purport to give the obligee a right to require payment in gold or a particular kind of coin or currency of the United States, or in an amount in money of the United States measured thereby...
Página 85 - It is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is, at the time of the trial, in possession of vouchers not before in his power to procure, and that he was prevented from exhibiting a claim for such credit at the Treasury by absence from the United States or by some unavoidable accident.
Página 85 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Página 15 - The United States are as much bound by their contracts as are individuals. If they repudiate their obligations, it is as much repudiation, with all the wrong and reproach that term implies, as it would be if the repudiator had been a State or a municipality or a citi/en.
Página 86 - Second. All set-offs, counter-claims, claims for damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, or other demands whatsoever on the part of the Government of the United States against any claimant against the Government in said Court...
Página 15 - The argument in favor of the joint resolution, as applied to Government bonds, is in substance that the Government cannot by contract restrict the exercise of a sovereign power. But the right to make binding obligations is a competence attaching to sovereignty.
Página 85 - that in suits between the United States and individuals, no claim for a credit shall be admitted upon trial but such as shall appear to have been presented to the accounting officers of the treasury for their examination and by them disallowed, in whole or in part...