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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Halifax fisheries award. (search)
Halifax fisheries award. One of the articles of the treaty of Washington provided for a commission to adjudicate the value of the fishery privileges conceded to the United States by that treaty. This commission met in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 5, 1877. Great Britain was represented by Sir Alexander F. Gait; the United States by E. H. Kellogg. The third commissioner, Maurice Delfosse, was named by Austria, as provided for in the treaty. The commission awarded Great Britain $5,500,000 for the use of the fishing privileges for twelve years. The money was appropriated by Congress in 1878 with the proviso articles 18 and 21 of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded on May 8, 1871, ought to be terminated at the earliest period consistent with the provisions of article 33 of the same treaty. The President of the United States, in pursuance of instructions from Congress, gave the required notice, and the fishery articles therefore came to an end July 1, 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hart, Albert Bushnell 1854- (search)
fe that not one child in twenty will live in the house of his grandfather. When critics say that no intellectual inventiveness can be expected in a flat and monotonous country they forget that Russia, in spite of the restraint of the censor, is one of the most active and creative of European countries. Art has really no local habitation. Artists are trained where there are the collections of great works, and there is no more reason for a Western school of painters than for a distinct Austrian or Australian school. The application of the principle of beauty to human life grows steadily throughout the West, and attractive houses, clean streets, beautiful parks, and tasteful furniture more and more abound. Browning societies do not make culture nor nourish new poets; but none can fail to observe throughout the valley the intelligent interest in the things which make for civilization in education, in literature, in art, and in human life. Of the continued material wealth of the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hulsemann letter, the. (search)
Hulsemann letter, the. During the Hungarian revolution President Taylor sent an agent to Hungary for the purpose of obtaining official information. The agent's report was not received until after the revolution had been crushed, but the Austrian charge at Washington, D. C., Mr. Hulsemann, in a highly offensive letter, complained of the action of the United States government in sending this representative. Daniel Webster, in his reply, Dec. 21, 1850, administered a very sharp rebuke, claiming the rights of the United States to recognize any de facto revolutionary government and to seek information in all proper ways in order to guide its action. The intense enthusiasm with which Kossuth was greeted in the United States led Mr. Hulsemann to return to Austria.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Immigration. (search)
We are opposed to the importation of Asiatic laborers in competition with American labor, and favor a more rigid enforcement of the laws relating thereto. Immigration statistics. During the period 1789-1820, when no thorough oversight was exercised, it is estimated that the number of immigrants into the United States aggregated 250,000; and during the period 1820-1900 the aggregate was 19,765,155. The nationality of immigrants in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, was as follows: Austria-Hungary, 114,847; German Empire, 18,507; Italy, including Sicily and Sardinia, 100,135; Norway, 9,575; Sweden, 18,650; Rumania, 6,459; Russian Empire and Finland, 90,787; England, 9,951; Ireland, 35,730; Scotland, 1,792; Wales, 764; Japan, 12,635; Turkey in Asia, 3,962; West Indies, 4,656; all other countries, 20,122; total, 448,572. High-water mark was reached in 1882, when the immigrants numbered 788,992. In 1892 the steady decline was checked, with a total of 623,084. The lowest num
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Iron and steel. (search)
the groups of operating companies aggregated $1,455,696,000. The steel industry also showed the United States to be at the head of all other countries, with a production of almost 40 per cent. of the world's steel output. It was estimated, for the year 1899, that the total steel output of the world was 26,841,755 long tons, divided among the producing countries as follows: United States, 10,702,209 tons; Germany, 6,290,434; Great Britain, 4,933,010; France, 1,529,182; Belgium, 729,920; Austria-Hungary, 950,000; Russia, 1,250,000; Sweden, 257,000; Italy, 80,000; and Spain, 120,000. The output in 1899, in the United States, of rolled steel was 10,357,397 tons, and in 1900 over 11,000,000 tons. In the iron and steel trade with foreign countries, in the twenty years preceding 1900, the position of the United States was exactly reversed; and within the last five years of that period the United States changed from an importing to an exporting country. In 1880 five times as much
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Henry rootes 1820-1898 (search)
1898 Military officer; born in Athens, Ga., June 24, 1820; graduated at Yale College in 1839, and admitted to the bar in 1840, when he settled in Savannah. He was appointed United States district attorney for Georgia in 1843. During the Mexican War he was colonel of the 1st Georgia Volunteers. At the close of the war he became part proprietor of The Georgian, in Savannah. In 1853 he was sent to the Court of Austria as the United States charge d'affaires. In 1854-58 he was minister to Austria. Returning to the United States he was commissioned a special United States district attorney for Georgia, to aid in trying notorious slavetrading cases. When the Civil War broke out he entered the Confederate army with the rank of brigadier-general. During the battle of Nashville, in December, 1864, he was taken prisoner, and was held till the lose of the war. Returning to Savannah he resumed law practice. In 1875-88 he was a trustee of the Peabody Educational Fund. In 1885 he was app
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jay, John 1817-1894 (search)
Jay, John 1817-1894 Diplomatist; born in New York City, June 23, 1817; graduated at Columbia College in 1836; admitted to the bar in 1839; appointed minister to Austria in 1869; chairman of the committee to investigate the New York custom-house in 1877; and member of the State civil service in 1883. Mr. Jay was a prominent abolitionist and author of a number of pamphlets, among them are The dignity of the abolition cause; The American Church and the American slave-trade; The Great conspiracy and England's neutrality; Caste and slavery in the American Church; America free, or America slave, etc. He died in New York City, May 5, 1894. Statesman; born in New York City, Dec. 12, 1745; was of Huguenot descent. Graduated at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1764, he was admitted to the bar in 1768, and formed a partnership with Robert R. Livingston. In 1774 he was a delegate in the first Continental Congress, and the same year he married a daughter of William Livings
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jews. (search)
. A large proportion of the Jewish immigrants came from Russia, where, however, the persecutions to which the Jews were subjected were being less rigorously enforced than formerly. The ferment infused into the European social body by the Dreyfus affair appeared to have had a clarifying effect, even the Procurator of the Russian Holy Synod having in a recent interview disavowed anti-Semitic sentiments. The actual storm centre of Slavic anti-Semitism had moved over the border from Russia to Austria and Rumania, and in Bohemia the condition of affairs was described as gravely foreboding. In Vienna the fever of anti-Semitism had passed its critical stage. This had been, in part, due to the disclosure of colossal frauds in the administration of the city finances by numerous leaders of the anti-Semite majority. In Germany and France the conditions were still more favorable. Turning to the subject of Jewish colonization, President Levy said that the movement to colonize Jews in Pales
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jews and Judaism. (search)
ates of American Israelites in the United States, The Anglo-Jewish Association in England, the Israelitische Alliance in Austria, and the Deutsche Gemeindebund in Germany. At one point it was hoped that the B nai B rith, established in this countryder, which has 315 lodges in the United States and Canada, has established itself in such countries as Germany, Rumania, Austria, Algeria, Bulgaria, and Egypt, and despite the good work it has so far done, the mere fact that it is a secret organizat in common. Starting in Germany, perhaps as a political move on the part of Bismarck, it spread into Russia, Galicia, Austria, Rumania, and France. In most of these countries it not only found expression in the exclusion of the Jews from all social intercourse with their fellows, but in Russia produced the riots of 1881 and 1882; in Austria and Bohemia the turbulent scene in the Reichstag, and even the pillaging of Jewish houses and Jewish synagogues; in Rumania it received the active supp
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kasson, John Adam 1822- (search)
arlotte, Vt., Jan. 11, 1822; graduated at the University of Vermont in 1842; and was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. Removing to St. Louis, Mo., he practised till 1857, when he settled in Des Moines, Ia. In 1861-62 he was first assistant Postmaster-General; in 1863-67 was a member of Congress, and in 1863 and 1867 the United States commissioner to the international postal Congress. He again served in Congress in 1873-77, and in the latter year was appointed United States minister to Austria, where he remained till 1881, when he was again elected to Congress. In 1884-85 he was minister to Germany, and in 1893 envoy to the Samoan international conference. President McKinley appointed him United States special commissioner plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity treaties in 1897, under the Dingley tariff act: and in 1898 he became a member of the Anglo-American Joint High Commission. He resigned the office of reciprocity commissioner in March, 1901, owing to the failure of th
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