Proceedings of the National Conference for Good City Government and Annual Meeting of the National Municipal LeagueMunicipal League, 1907 |
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222 페이지 - Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and also all real and personal property, according to its true value in money...
380 페이지 - I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
300 페이지 - ... rights, authority or permission to construct, maintain or operate, in, under, above, upon, or through any streets, highways, or public places, any mains, pipes, tanks, conduits, or wires, with their appurtenances, for conducting water, steam, heat, light, power, gas, oil. or other substance, or electricity for telegraphic, telephonic or other purposes...
59 페이지 - Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
222 페이지 - The power of taxation shall never be surrendered, suspended or contracted away. Taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects, and shall be levied and collected for public purposes...
378 페이지 - THE proudest now is but my peer, The highest not more high; To-day, of all the weary year, A king of men am I. To-day, alike are great and small, The nameless and the known; My palace is the people's hall, The ballot-box my throne! Who serves to-day upon the list Beside the served shall stand; Alike the brown and wrinkled fist, The gloved and dainty hand!
134 페이지 - commission" as used in this act shall mean the railroad commission of Wisconsin. Railroad commission's powers. SECTION 1797m — 2. The railroad commission of Wisconsin is vested with power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate every public utility in this state and to do all things necessary and convenient in the exercise of such power and jurisdiction.
170 페이지 - ... by the mayor, by and with the consent of the board of aldermen, and to be removable for cause by the mayor, subject to the approval of the governor of the State.
192 페이지 - It is the dillettants, and all who shirk their duty, who are not doing well. As for you, I advise you to enter more strongly yet into politics. I advise every young , man to do so. Always inform yourself; always do the best you can; always vote.
221 페이지 - ... have precisely the same history or law or conditions. All that can properly be attempted is such an outline as may readily be adaptable to the conditions in any state. In the following outline every state will find something already in force, and the elastic character of the system proposed allows easy modification and change, as conditions and habits of thought may change. It is beyond the bounds of possibility that the wisdom of the present shall suffice for succeeding generations. One of the...