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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agricultural colleges. (search)
Agricultural colleges.
In 1857, the late Justin S. Morrill, then Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture of the national House of Representatives, introduced a bill appropriating to the several States a portion of the public lands for the purpose of encouraging institutions for the advancement of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
The bill lingered in Congress (having been vetoed by President Buchanan) until July, 1862, when it became a law. The act provided that each State should receive a quantity of land equal in value to $30,000 for each of its Senators and Representatives in Congress under the census of 1860, to establish at least one college in each State where all the needful sciences for the practical avocations of life should be taught, and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends studying its familiar and recondite economies.
It provided that all expenses of location, management, taxation, etc., sh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill , Justin Smith 1810 - (search)
Morrill, Justin Smith 1810-
Legislator; born in Strafford, Vt., April 14, 1810; received an academic education: engaged in mercantile business till 1848, then became interested in agriculture.
He entered the national House of Representatives as a Republican in 1855, and served there till March 4, 1867, when he was transferre tariff bill known by his name in 1861; and was a member of the Senate committee on finance from 1867 till his death in Washington, D. C., Dec. 28, 1898.
Justin Smith Morrill.
Taking an active part in all the debates relating to the tariff and to coinage, his most notable speech was that in which he opposed the remonetization would reduce wages to the full extent of the difference there might be between its purchasing power and that of gold.
Free-trade or protection.
In 1890 Senator Morrill made the following contribution to the Gladstone-Blaine controversy concerning free-trade and protection:
Any extended argument of the Right Honorable W.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill , lot Myrick 1813 -1883 (search)
Morrill, lot Myrick 1813-1883
Financier; born in Belgrade, Me., May 3, 1813; admitted to the bar of Maine in 1839; elected to the State legislature in 1854; president of the State Senate in 1856; elected governor in 1857; and was United States Senator from 1860 until his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in 1876.
He died in Augusta, Me., Jan. 10, 1883.