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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beet sugar. (search)
n treated with lime-water and the whites of eggs, and stirred till it is slightly alkaline. It is then placed in copper pans, and while boiling is constantly stirred and scummed. After sufficient concentration the substance is placed in a warm room for several days till it crystallizes. The juice or molasses which remains is drained off, and the solid part is raw sugar. This may be further refined by dissolving again and using albumen and blood. Experiments in beet sugar production were stimulated by the United States bounty law, in operation from July 1, 1891, to Aug. 27, 1894. In the period 1890-1900 the output in the United States was increased from 2,800 tons to 74,944 tons. The following table shows the production, in long tons, in the United States in the season of 1899-1900: California37,938 Nebraska4,591 Utah8,574 New Mexico446 New York1,607 Michigan16,699 Minnesota2,053 Oregon982 Illinois804 Colorado804 Washington446   Totals for United States74,944
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tariff. (search)
, 1894 Senate passes tariff bill, 39 yeas (thirty-seven Democrats, two Populists), 34 nays (thirty-one Republicans, two Populists, one Democrat, D. B. Hill)......July 3, 1894 Tariff bill received in the House with 633 Senate amendments; rates increased......July 5, 1894 House disagreeing, a conference committee is appointed; the Senate compels the House to adopt its amendments......Aug. 13, 1894 Bill sent to the President Aug. 17, 1894 Becomes a law without his signature......Aug. 27, 1894 Chairman Dingley, of the committee on ways and means, introduces new tariff bill......Dec. 7, 1896 Measure reported from committee on ways and means......March 19, 1897 Bill passes the House, 205 ayes to 122 nays, twenty-seven not voting......March 31, 1897 Bill passes the Senate with about 870 amendments, 38 ayes, 28 nays, twenty-three not voting......July 7, 1897 House non-concurred in Senate amendments; conference committee reported favorably on majority of Senate amen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taxes. (search)
repealing tax on banks, checks, etc., matches, and medicinal preparations......March 3, 1883 Special tax laid on manufacturers and dealers in oleomargarine, and a stamp tax of 2 cents per lb. laid on the manufactured article......Aug. 2, 1886 Special internal-revenue tax on dealers in tobacco repealed, and tax on tobacco and snuff reduced by act......Oct. 1, 1890 Act passed to refund to the several States and Territories the amount of direct tax paid under act of Aug. 5, 1861......March 2, 1891 Income tax appended to the Wilson tariff bill and passed with it, becoming a law......Aug. 27, 1894 Declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court......May 20, 1895 Congress passes a war-revenue act, imposing taxes on a large number of articles, in consequence of the declaration of war against Spain, which was approved by the President......June 13, 1898 Congress passes an act relieving many articles from the war-revenue tax, to take effect......July 1, 1901
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
mes by the government.] United States Senate ratifies the new Chinese treaty regulating immigration, signed March, by 47 to 20......Aug. 13, 1894 [Formally proclaimed by the President, Dec. 8.] House passes the Senate tariff bill by 182 yeas (175 Democrats, seven Populists) to 106 nays (ninety-three Republicans, thirteen Democrats), and passes bills for free coal, iron, barbed wire, and sugar......Aug. 13, 1894 Tariff bill becomes a law without the President's signature......Aug. 27, 1894 Second session (268 days) adjourns......Aug. 28, 1894 Ten towns in Minnesota, six in Wisconsin, and three in Michigan totally destroyed by forest fires......August, 1894 Gen. N. P. Banks, born Jan. 30, 1816, dies at Waltham, Mass.......Sept. 1, 1894 Samuel J. Kirkwood, United States exSenator, ex-Secretary of the Interior, and war governor of Iowa, dies at Des Moines, aged eighty-one......Sept. 1, 1894 Maj.-Gen. George Stoneman, ex-governor of California, born Aug. 8, 1822
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 8: divers good causes 1890-1896; aet. 71-77 (search)
remember my old wish to speak to the prisoners, never fully realized. August 13. Finished my poem for the Bryant Centenary, of which I have despaired; my mind has seemed dull of late, and I have had a hard time with this poem, writing what appeared to me bald-doggerel, with no uniting thought. In these last three days, I have hammered upon it, and bettered it, coming in sight of a better vein and to-day, not without prayerful effort, I got it about ready, D. G. To Maud Oak Glen, August 27, 1894. ... An interesting French gentleman has been giving readings at Mrs. Coleman's. He read us Corneille's Cid last evening with much dash and spirit. It is a famous play, but the sentiment is very stilted, like going up a ladder to shave one's self. I was at Providence on Friday to meet a literary club of ladies. I read to them the greater part of my play, Hippolytus, written the summer before Sammy was born, for Edwin Booth. It seemed very ghostly to go back to the ambitions of t