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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Election bill, federal. (search)
Election bill, federal.
During the discussion on the Federal Election Bill, the Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed, Speaker of the House of Representatives (q. v.), wrote as follows:
The national election bill of 1890, as was pointed out several times during the discussion which it aroused, both in and out of Congress, is a long bill.
Yet if any one will take the trouble to compare it with the general election laws of most, if not all, of the States, he will find that in its class it is more conspicuous for brevity than for length.
The truth is that no election law which attempts to provide accurately for all the different stages of an election can be otherwise than long.
At the same time, although it takes many paragraphs in a bill to state exactly how each act, great and small, having relation to an election shall be performed, it is perfectly easy to put into very few words the purpose of an election law and the methods by which it proposes to accomplish that purpose.
The
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Farmers' Alliance, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Farming by electricity. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Finances, United States . (search)
Finances, United States.
Financial topics were uppermost in interest during the years immediately succeeding 1890.
The demand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver increased in the Southern and Western portions of the country.
Between as generally recognized as one cause of the disturbances, attention was called to the repeal of the silver purchase act of 1890, and President Cleveland summoned a special session of the Fifty-third Congress to consider the matter.
Congress assemble d by the President.
After passing this act, which repealed the purchasing clause of what was known as the Sherman bill of 1890, Congress adjourned.
The actual condition of the national treasury on Jan. 12, 1894, was thus set forth in a letter o r dollars and bullion, $8,092,287; fractional silver coin, $12,133,903; United States notes, $5,031,327; treasury notes of 1890, $2,476,000; national bank notes, $14,026,735; minor coin, $988,625; deposits in banks, $15,470,863; total cash assets, $1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fisk , Clinton Bowen 1828 -1890 (search)
Fisk, Clinton Bowen 1828-1890
Lawyer; born in Griggsville, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1828; removed with his parents to Michigan while a child, where he became a successful merchant; removed to St. Louis in 1859.
In 1861 he was commissioned colonel of the 33d Missouri Regiment; in 1862 was promoted brigadier-general; and in 1865 was brevetted major-general.
He was deeply interested in educational and temperance reform; was a founder of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; and was the Prohibition candidate for governor of New Jersey in 1886, and for President of the United States in 1888.
He died in New York City, July 9, 1890.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fremont , John Charles 1813 -1890 (search)
Fremont, John Charles 1813-1890
Explorer; born in Savannah, Ga., Jan. 21, 1813; graduated at Charleston College in 1830.
His father was a Frenchman, and his mother a Virginian.
He was instructor in mathematics in the United States navy from 1833 to 1835.
Engaged in surveying the Cherokee country in the winter of 1837-38, he began his famous explorations, first in the country between the Missouri River and the British possessions.
He had been appointed second lieutenant of topographical engineers in July.
In 1841 he married a daughter of Senator Thomas H. Benton, and in May, 1842, he began, under the authority of the government, the exploration of an overland route to the Pacific Ocean.
He ascended the highest peak of the Wind River Mountains, which was afterwards named Fremont's Peak.
He explored the Great Salt Lake region in 1843, and penetrated to the Pacific near the mouth of the Columbia River.
In 1845 he explored the Sierra Nevada in California, and in 1846 became inv
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Funston , Frederick 1865 - (search)
Funston, Frederick 1865-
Military officer; born in Ohio, Nov. 9, 1865; attended the Kansas State University, but did not graduate; became a newspaper reporter in Kansas City in 1890; botanist of the United States Death Valley Expedition in 1891; and special commissioner of the Department of Agriculture to explore Alaska, with a view of reporting on its flora, 1893-94; joined the Cubans in 1896 and served in their army for a year and a half.
At the beginning of the war with Spain he was commissioned colonel of the 20th Kansas Volunteers, which he accompanied to the Philippines, where he subsequently made an exceptionally brilliant record.
On March 31, 1899, he was the first man to enter Malolos, the Filipino insurgents' capital.
On May 2, 1899, President McKinley promoted him to brigadiergeneral in the newly organized volunteer service, on the recommendation of
Frederick Funston. Generals Otis and MacArthur, for signal skill and gallantry in swimming across the Rio Grande at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fur-trade. (search)
Galveston,
City, seaport, and commercial metropolis of Texas: on an island of the same name.
It was settled in 1837; captured by National forces in 1862; retaken by Confederates in 1863; was nearly destroyed by fire in 1885; and was visited by a terrible tornado and flood, Sept. 8, 1900, which caused a loss of 7,000 lives and property valued at $30,000,000. The population in 1890 was 29,084; in 1900, 37,789.
In the early part of the Civil War attempts were made to repossess important posts in Texas, especially Galveston.
On May 17, 1862, Henry Eagle, in command of war-vessels in front of Galveston, demanded its surrender, under a threat of an attack from a large land and naval force that would soon appear.
When those forces appear, said the authorities, we shall reply.
So matters remained until Oct. 8, when Galveston was formally surrendered by its civil authorities to Commodore Renshaw, of the National navy.
To hold the city more securely, a Massachusetts regiment, unde