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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
a, and other Southern States claimed and finally secured payment of salaries from the beginning of the terms for which they were elected without reference to the time of their election. By a proviso in the legislative appropriation bill of July 31, 1894, it was enacted that in cases of the election or appointment of Senators after the beginning of a term their compensation should begin the day of their election or appointment. The legislatures of Montana and Wyoming failed to choose Senatorared 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 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 R
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
overnment gold, leaves San Francisco for New York; has the right of way......Aug. 5, 1892 Three-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of San Diego Bay......Sept. 28, 1892 Hydraulic mining permitted under restrictions......March, 1893 Leland Stanford, governor, 1862, United States Senator, 1893, and founder of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, dies......June 20, 1893 Midwinter exposition at San Francisco inaugurated Aug. 24, 1893; opened January, 1894; closed......July 31, 1894 The first Chinamen deported from San Francisco for non-registration......Aug. 10, 1893 Irrigation Congress meets at Los Angeles......Oct. 10, 1893 Serious earthquake in California......March 31, 1898 Adolph Sutro dies at San Francisco......Aug. 8, 1898 Contract made for the San Pedro breakwater......1900 The first through passenger train on the Santa Fe Railroad from Chicago to San Francisco......June 30, 1900 Collis P. Huntington dies at Pine Knot Lodge, N. Y.......