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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banks, National. (search)
after the experience people had had with State banks whose issue was good in Pittsburg and worthless in Cleveland, and Vice versa, and might be stable in either place one day and worthless the next, to say nothing of the annoyance of carrying $100 as many miles and finding it only rated at $40. Still, there was much opposition to the national bank bill. Early in 1863 it was introduced into the Senate by Mr. Sherman, and referred to the finance committee, from which it was reported by him Feb. 2, and ten days later passed by a vote of 23 to 21. On the 20th of the same month it also passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 78 to 64. When the bill was revised and again brought before Congress for passage, in June, 1864, the vote in the Senate was 30 in favor and 9 against the bill. It was claimed at the time this bill was under discussion, and has been even more strongly urged since by certain classes, that all the advantages of stability and uniformity of currency could be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil rights bill, (search)
Civil rights bill, An important measure introduced in the United States Senate on Jan. 29, 1866; adopted there Feb. 2 by a vote of 33 to 12, and passed in the House on March 13 by a vote of 111 to 38. The bill was vetoed March 27 by President Johnson, but was passed over the veto, in the Senate on April 6, and in the House on April 9. While the bill was passing through these stages a number of amendments were proposed for the purpose of nullifying the decision in the Dred Scot case; and on April 30 Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, in the House, reported from a joint committee the measure that became the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (q. v.) The original civil rights bill comprised in brief the following provisions: 1. All persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, were therein declared to be citizens of the United States, having the same rights as white citizens in every State and Territ
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil service reform. (search)
es, would come to be a mere matter of traffic, and how it would lead to a condition of wastefulness and inefficiency in many instances. The matter was made even worse by a system of levying a tax or assessment, at each election, on all office-holders to bear party expenses, the understanding being that the payment of this tax was a condition of the retention of the office. The first attempt to call the attention of Congress to the need of reform in the civil service was made in 1867. On Feb. 2 of that year, Mr. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, a Republican, brought forward a bill for the investigation and reorganization of that service. The bill was referred to a committee, but the report of the committee when received was tabled, and nothing further was done about it. In 1870 Mr. Jenckes tried to get a bill passed for the introduction of a system of competitive examination in the civil service, but this also failed. President Grant gave it the weight of his influence, and really made
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
misrepresentations of the principles and intentions of the Republican party. He declared the personal liberty act of his State to be right. Let it stand, he said; this is no time for timid and vacillating counsels while the cry of treason is ringing in our ears. The new governor (Austin Blair), who was inaugurated Jan. 3, took substantially the same ground. He recommended the legislature to take action for the support of the national government, and they responded by passing resolutions, Feb. 2, pledging to that government all the military power and material resources of the State. They expressed an unwillingness to make compromises with traitors, and refused to send delegates to the peace conference (q. v.). The best men of the State, serving in the Union army, redeemed this pledge. Michigan furnished to the National army, during the Civil War, 90,747 soldiers, of which number 14,823 perished. The expenditures of the State for carrying on the war were $3,784,408; by counties, c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
tors at their sessions in 1893 for the terms beginning March 4 of that year, but did elect Senators for that term at their sessions in January, 1895. The credentials of these Senators were filed in the Senate—one of them Jan. 29, 1895, the other Feb. 2 following. They appeared and took the oath of office, one on Feb. 2, the other on the 6th of the same month. By a resolution of the Senate, April 24, 1896, the secretary of the Senate was directed to pay them from March 4, 1893, the beginning oFeb. 2, the other on the 6th of the same month. By a resolution of the Senate, April 24, 1896, the secretary of the Senate was directed to pay them from March 4, 1893, the beginning of the term, until July 31, 1894, the date of the proviso in the appropriation bill above mentioned, which had taken effect nearly six months before the Senators were elected. Section 6 of the act of Aug. 16, 1856, requiring deductions of pay for absence of Senators and Representatives is preserved in the revised statutes, section 40, and is now the law. Joint Resolution No. 68, approved July, 1862, provides: When any member or delegate withdraws from his seat and does not return befo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
tate legislature convenes at Austin......Feb. 16, 1846 J. P. Henderson inaugurated first governor of the State......Feb. 19, 1846 Fort Brown at Brownsville established......March 28, 1846 Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, and of Resaca de la Palma......May 9, 1846 Act of congress sets apart one-tenth of the general revenues of the State for educational purposes......May 13, 1846 Baylor University at Waco chartered 1845, and opened......1846 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo concluded Feb. 2; ratification exchanged at Queretaro, May 30, and proclaimed......July 4, 1848 Austin city chosen as the seat of government for twenty years by vote of the people......1850 Texas formally accepts the boundary designated by the boundary bill for New Mexico, approved Sept. 9, 1850, by which Texas is to receive $10,000,000 from the United States......Nov. 25, 1852 First overland mail from San Diego, Cal., arrives at San Antonio......Sept. 6, 1857 Enthusiastic Union meeting held at A
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 15: (search)
e consider it to have experienced officers with him, that he immediately forwarded to the Adjutant-General's Department the names of six infantry colonels whom he had selected for promotion and transfer to the West, and of the engineers and other staff officers of lower grade, who should accompany him, And, in order to prevent error or unnecessary delay, he sent his Chief of Staff, Colonel Thomas Jordan, to Richmond, to confer directly on the subject with the Secretary of War. On the 2d of February he parted, with much regret, at Manassas, from the last representatives of that great Army of the Potomac, which, afterwards, under the name of the Army of Northern Virginia, achieved, by innumerable victories, undying renown for itself and its revered commander, General Robert E. Lee. General Beauregard's journey from Manassas to Bowling Green, the headquarters of General Johnston, was marked by the most gratifying manifestations of confidence and enthusiasm on the part of the people
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 44: (search)
not, just then, absent themselves from their commands, it was decided that Generals Beauregard and Hardee should go to them. The conference was held on the 2d of February, at Green's Cut Station, and lasted several hours. The views and measures there presented by General Beauregard were accepted with but little—if any—modificarmation of his judgment upon the subject: Headquarters, Military division of the West, Augusta, Ga., Feb. 3d, 1865. Notes of conference had on the 2d day of February, A. D. 1865, at Green's Cut Station, Ga., at which General Beauregard, Lieut.-General Hardee, Major-General D. H. Hill, and Major-General G. W. Smith were ptreme. He had apparently forgotten, or was no longer heedful of, the clear and definite arrangements agreed upon at the Green's-cut Station conference on the 2d of February, which should have been amply sufficient for his guidance. So urgent and repeated, however, were his calls upon General Beauregard, that the latter concluded
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Arkansas Volunteers. (search)
Blunt December 3-5. Illinois Creek December 7. Battle of Prairie Grove December 7. Middletown December 9. Expedition from Fayetteville to Huntsville, Ark., December 21-23. Duty at Fayetteville, Ark., to April 25, 1863. Defence of Springfield, Mo., January 8, 1863 (Detachment). Carrollton January 10. Expedition from Fayetteville to Van Buren January 23-27. Pope County January 25. Skirmishes at Vine Prairie, on White Oak River, and near mouth of Mulberry River, February 2-3. Skirmish, Pope County, February 5 (Detachment). Scout from Fayetteville to Arkansas River February 5-12. Threlkeld's Ferry February 6. Near Van Buren February 10. Arkadelphia February 15 (Detachment). White River March 6. Frog Bayou March 19. Washington and near White River March 22. Scouts from Fayetteville March 29-April 5. Cross Hollows March 30. Skirmishes in Carroll County, Mo., April 4 (Cos. H and L ). White River April 9. Cabell's attack on
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Connecticut Volunteers. (search)
tsmouth, Va. Duty there and at Norfolk till January, 1864. Skirmish at Harrellsville January 20 (Detachment). Moved to Morehead City, thence to Newberne and Plymouth January 24-28. Skirmish at Windsor January 30. Duty at Newberne February 2 to March 20, and at Plymouth, N. C., till April. Siege of Plymouth April 17-20. Captured April 20, and prisoners of war till March, 1865. Those not captured on duty at Newberne and Roanoke Island, N. C., till June, 1865. Mustered ouOccupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. At Hardee's Plantation January 4-16, 1865. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April. Lawtonville, S. C., February 2. Reconnoissance to Silver Run Creek, N. C., March 14. Averysboro or Taylor's Hole Creek March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24, and of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrende
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