Financial Or Business Interests of Officers Or Employees of the Senate: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, First and Second Sessions Pursuant to S. Res. 212 and S. Res. 291 Resolutions Authourizing an Investigation Into the Financial Or Business Interests of Any Officer Or Employee Or Former Officer Or Employee of the Senate, Količine 13–23

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Stran 1342 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House...
Stran 1343 - ... punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 nor less than $100 and imprisonment in a common jail for not less than one month nor more than twelve months (Revised Statutes, sec.
Stran 1343 - No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either house of congress, or by any committee of either house, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.
Stran 1371 - At the outset we must condemn the practice of imputing a sinister meaning to the exercise of a person's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment. . . . The privilege against self-incrimination would be reduced to a hollow mockery if its exercise could be taken as equivalent either to a confession of guilt or a conclusive presumption of perjury.
Stran 1371 - there is no congressional power to expose for the sake of exposure...
Stran 1877 - A judge should not act in a controversy where a near relative is a party; he should not suffer his conduct to justify the impression that any person can improperly influence him or unduly enjoy his favor, or that he is affected by the kinship, rank, position or influence of any party or other person.
Stran 1361 - The privilege afforded not only extends to answers that would in themselves support a conviction . . . but likewise embraces those which would furnish a link in the chain of evidence needed to prosecute...
Stran 1529 - The committee will stand adjourned subject to the call of the Chair. (Whereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee recessed...
Stran 1943 - ... shall not, during their continuance in office, engage in the practice of any profession, or intervene, directly or indirectly, in the management or control of any private enterprise which in any way may be affected by the functions of their office; nor shall they, directly or indirectly, be financially interested in any contract with the Government, or any subdivision or instrumentality thereof.
Stran 1371 - Too many, even those who should be better advised, view this privilege as a shelter for wrongdoers. They too readily assume that those who invoke it are either guilty of crime or commit perjury in claiming the privilege.

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