Rent Commission in the District of Columbia: Hearings Before the Joint Subcommittee of the Committees on the District of Columbia, Congress of the United States, Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3764, a Bill to Create and Establish a Commission, as an Independent Establishment of the Federal Government, to Regulate Rents in the District of Columbia, January 12-14, 19, 23, 26-28 1925 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - 663 páginas |
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... heat , and in many cases no heat at all . Senator JONES of Washington . Do you say that is the general rule followed by the landlord ? Mr. WHALEY . No , sir ; I did not RENT COMMISSION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 5.
... heat , and in many cases no heat at all . Senator JONES of Washington . Do you say that is the general rule followed by the landlord ? Mr. WHALEY . No , sir ; I did not RENT COMMISSION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 5.
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... heat and other things . Representative BLANTON . I understood Senator Jones to say , and I agree with him , that ... heat . He said as a general rule they failed to make repairs . Representative HAMMER . That is very different from the ...
... heat and other things . Representative BLANTON . I understood Senator Jones to say , and I agree with him , that ... heat . He said as a general rule they failed to make repairs . Representative HAMMER . That is very different from the ...
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... heat , he can shut off the hot water , and the tenant can go without heat and hot water for 30 days . The only redress he has to - day under the rent act is that he can recover by filing a complaint with the commission the difference ...
... heat , he can shut off the hot water , and the tenant can go without heat and hot water for 30 days . The only redress he has to - day under the rent act is that he can recover by filing a complaint with the commission the difference ...
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... heating , to what extent have the landlords not furnished heat during the past six years - as a general rule , or do you want to qualify that ? Mr. WHALEY . I can not specify as a general rule . When I made the statement of six years ...
... heating , to what extent have the landlords not furnished heat during the past six years - as a general rule , or do you want to qualify that ? Mr. WHALEY . I can not specify as a general rule . When I made the statement of six years ...
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... heat , I turned the heat on in 130,000 houses in New York in one year , showing the necessity of it . But I confess that I am dis- turbed when I look at the foundation of this bill . I would like to ask the chairman of our committee if ...
... heat , I turned the heat on in 130,000 houses in New York in one year , showing the necessity of it . But I confess that I am dis- turbed when I look at the foundation of this bill . I would like to ask the chairman of our committee if ...
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9 rooms apartment house Avenue NW B. F. Saul bill Boss & Phelps BROWN building CALLAHAN cent CHAIRMAN Chastleton Clifton Terrace committee Congress Connecticut Avenue deed of trust District of Columbia Doctor WALDRON electricity eviction fact Fourteenth Street Furnished Georgia Avenue GORE H Street H. L. Rust HAGNER hearings heat increase JONES of Washington kitchen labor land landlord Linkins MACCHESNEY ment Miss NALLS month Moore & Hill owner paid PETTY question real estate board REED Rent Commission rent law rental Representative BLANTON Representative HAMMER Representative LAMPERT Representative STALKER Rhode Island Avenue rooms and bath salary Senator COPELAND Senator JONES Seventh Street Shannon & Luchs six rooms Sixteenth Street statement Stone & Fairfax Street NW Supreme Court Takoma Park tenants testimony three rooms TSCHIPKE Unfurnished United vacant WARDBY WHALEY WHITEFORD Wisconsin Avenue WORRELL
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Página 45 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use,...
Página 212 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Página 449 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Página 425 - No FREEMAN SHALL BE TAKEN OR IMPRISONED, OR DISSEISED, OR OUTLAWED, OR BANISHED, OR ANY WAYS DESTROYED, NOR WILL WE PASS UPON HIM, NOR WILL WE SEND UPON HIM, UNLESS BY THE LAWFUL JUDGMENT OF HIS PEERS, OR BY THE LAW OF THE LAND.
Página 432 - The general rule at least is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.
Página 241 - depending upon the existence of an emergency or other certain state of facts to uphold it may cease to operate if the emergency ceases or the facts change even though valid when passed.
Página 44 - To say that a business is clothed with a public interest is not to import that the public may take over its entire management and run it at the expense of the owner. The extent to which regulation may reasonably go varies with different kinds of business.
Página 50 - ... formulate a rule of constitutional law broader than is required by the precise facts to which it is to be applied.
Página 55 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.
Página 658 - States are forbidden from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.