Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1981. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. viii 725 p. Includes: illustrations bibliography. Footnotes. Serial No. J-97-13. In 1976 the Supreme Court reviewed again a series of cases involving capital punishment statutes for murder in Georgia Texas Florida Louisiana and North Carolina. In essence the Supreme Court upheld statutory schemes provding standards to govern the exercise of discretion by the jury or judge and rejected those requiring mandatory imposition of the death penalty under specified circumstances. S. 111 was primarily modeled after the Georgia statute that was upheld by the Supreme Court. The bill would provided for a bifurcated trial for treasons espionage and murder. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington:Beverley Tucker Senate Printers 1854. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Washington:Beverley Tucker Senate Printers. 1854. 380pp. Black boards with blindstamped decoration lightly soiled and shelfworn with a couple holes to the front gutter and 2 small areas of chipping to material on back panel. Page edges soiled. Internally end-pages clean free of previous owners marks or signatures but slight age-toning scattered throughout. The binding is tight and hinges intact although front hinge has several holes. Relates to the seizure of the steamer Black Warrior and other alleged wrongs committed by the authorities of Cuba on American citizens. Washington:Beverley Tucker, Senate Printers hardcover
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1981. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. iv 136 p.; 24 cm. Footnotes. 97-5. This is a hearing on a bill intended to benefit consumers. The Cash Discount Act S. 414 would permit merchants to offer unlimited discounts to consumers who pay by cash. At the same time the bill would have continued for 3 years the then current prohibition against merchants pernalizing credit customers through the impostion of surcharges. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington: Government Printing Office. 1906. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; 508 pages; Original green library buckram red leather gilt-lettered label on the spine and the 1906 date of publication stamped in the center of the spine. There is a gilt-lettered stamping at the center of the front cover: "HON. CHARLES W. FULTON / CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS/ UNITED STATES SENATE." There is an oval rubber stamp on the title page: "Private Library of / Reed Paige Clark." The text is divided into three parts with three tabs of gilt-lettered brown leather glued to the fore-edges of sheets of pale blue stiff paper. The portions of the facing pages which touched any of these leather tabs is stained brown from contact with the acid which which the leather tabs were tanned. Otherwise an unmarked and well preserved copy. Senator Charles Fulton 1853-1918 served as a United States Senator from Oregon for a single term 1903-9. As stated on the front cover of this volume Fulton served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims from 1905-9 Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Fulton left the Senate in 1909 and was succeded as Chairman of the Claims Committee by Senator Henry E. Burnham of New Hampshire 1844-1917 -- served as U.S. Senator 1901-1913. The eventual owner of this copy Reed Paige Clark 1878-1958 was born in New Hampshire and attended secondary schools in that state. He came to Washington at the end of the nineteenth century and became a student in the Columbian College now George Washington University in 1895. He took an A.B. degree from the College and an LLB from the Columbian Law School in 1901. He joined the U.S. Senate staff in that year serving as private secretary to Senator Burnham of N.H. Clark also served as Clerk to the Senate Committees on Claims -- also Industrial Exhibitions Cuban Relatons Agriculture and Forestry. It is not clear whether Senator Burnham or outgoing Claims Committee Chairman Fulton presented this copy to Reed Paige Clark. Clark left the staff of the Senate in 1911 to accept a Commission as General Receiver of Customs for the Republic of Liberia. He had a full and varied career in the U.S. Customs and Diplomatic Services. He was briefly in charge of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna Austria when the Ambassador was recalled after the Anschluss in 1938. He retired in 1944. . Government Printing Office hardcover
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. iv594 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-318. This fireld hearing heard from local citizens and officals and national experts on a range of issues important to the community including children's health childhood leukemia cancer clusters and environmentally-related health problems. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1902. Hardcover. 509p. first edition bound in half-leather which is rubbed marbled end papers last few pages have some wrinkling otherwise in very good condition. 57th Congress 1st session. Senate Rept. 776 part 2. Government Printing Office hardcover
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Has some wear and soiling. iv 114 p.; 24 cm. The witnesses at this hearing represent the three voting members of the Chrysler Loan Guarantee Board. The purpose of the oversight hearing was to examine the decision to provide a $500 million loan guarantee. The law provided that before a guarantee can actually be issues the Board must transmit a written report to the committee of the Congress setting forth the determinations required to be made under the act and the reasons for making each determination. The hearing examined the report and the supporting materials and considered whether the requirements of the Act had been met. The intervention by the Federal Government to intervene to avert bankruptcy by the Chrysler Corporation was at the time a remarkable and largely unprecedented action. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. vi 558 p. Includes illustrations. S. Hrg. 107-315. These hearings were on the interaction between our environmental regulations and our nation's energy policy. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. v 607 p. 24 cm. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Maps. Bibliography. Publication No. 96-143. In the view of the Committee Chairman "our national effort to reduce reliance on oil imports through expanded reliance on coal faced unfortunate impediments which needed to be corrected. One such impediment was certain State production taxes which had increased to unprecedented rates in the late 1970's. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1961. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Somewhat worn and soiled. Edge tear at front. Stain at last page. Small hole at bottom of last page. ii 121 p. Includes illustrations. Folding charts. This is an extremely scarce Richard Helms/Central Intelligence Agency item. This was sworn testimony before the Congressional subcommittee. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
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