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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bering sea arbitration. (search)
question introduced in the treaty provision for submission to the tribunal — that embraced in the fifth point, to wit, the right of protection or property in the seals, and which in the judgment of the counsel of the United States became the leading, if not the only, defence of the seizures — was not advanced in the legal proceedings of 1887, and was not mooted until a late stage of Mr. Blaine's controversy with Lord Salisbury. The chief credit for the development of this point is due to Mr. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy, who submitted a paper of rare legal ability on the subject to the President. The treaty after having undergone the careful scrutiny of the President and Hon. E. J. Phelps, whose advice had been sought by the president, was submitted to the Senate and approved by that body without a single dissenting voice, so far as is known. If the conduct of the President, in the management of the controversy created by his predecessor, had not been in the judgment of the countr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabinet, President's (search)
March14, 1844 George Bancroft March10, 1845 John Y. Mason Sept. 9, 1846 William B. Preston March 8, 1849 William A. Graham July 22, 1850 John P. Kennedy July 22, 1852 James C. DobbinMarch 7, 1853 Isaac Toucey March 6, 1857 Gideon Welles March 5, 1861 Adolph E. Borie March 5, 1869 George M. Robeson June 25, 1869 Richard W. Thompson March12, 1877 Nathan Goff, JrJan. 6, 1881 William H. Hunt March 5, 1881 William E. Chandler April 1, 1882 William C. Whitney March 6, 1885 Benjamin F. TracyMarch 5, 1889 Hilary A. Herbert arch 6, 1893 John D. Long March 5, 1897 March 5, 1901 Secretaries of the Interior. Thomas Ewing March 8, 1849 Alexander H. H. Stewart Sept.12, 1850 Robert McClelland March 7, 1853 Jacob Thompson March 6, 1857 Caleb B. Smith March 5, 1861 John P. Usher Jan. 8, 1863 James Harlan May 15, 1865 Orville H. Browning July 27, 1866 Jacob D. Cox March 5, 1869 Columbus Delano Nov. 1, 1870 Zachariah Chandler Oct. 19, 1875 Carl Schurz March12, 187
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Townsend, Thomas S. 1829- (search)
Townsend, Thomas S. 1829- Compiler; born in New York City, Aug. 27, 1829; received a classical education, and later entered a mercantile firm in New York City. In 1860 he began a chronological history of every important occurrence in connection with the impending Civil War, by clipping from the newspapers every statement of value relating to the subject and the record of every military officer in both armies. His collection comprised 120 volumes, and Benjamin Franklin Tracy. is now in the library of Columbia University, New York. He delivered many lectures and addresses on the Civil War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tracy, Benjamin Franklin 1830- (search)
Tracy, Benjamin Franklin 1830- Lawyer; born in Oswego, N. Y., April 26, 1830; became an influential Republican politician, and a prominent lawyer in New York raised two regiments, for the Civil War; commissioned colonel, of the 109th New York Volunteers; was severely wounded at the battle of the Wilderness; brevetted brigadier-general in 1865; received a congressional medal of honor for gallantry in battle. After the war he served as United States district attorney and associate judge of the court of appeals; and was Secretary of the Navy in President Harrison's cabinet, 1889-93. At the close of his term he returned to the practice of law; was president of the commission which drafted the charter for the Greater New York; and was an unsuccessful candidate for first mayor under this charter.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
trial begins Aug. 30; the first three are sentenced to imprisonment for life, Kunz for three years, and Beggs discharged......Dec. 16, 1889 [Second trial of Daniel Coughlin began Nov. 3, 1893; acquitted by jury, March 8, 1894.] Commander B. H. McCalla, of United States steamship Enterprise, by courtmartial for malfeasance and cruelty, April 22, on finding of a court of inquiry held in Brooklyn navy-yard, March 11, suspended from rank and duty for three years, sentence approved by Secretary Tracy......May 15, 1890 Dr. T. Thacher Graves, for murder of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby, of Providence, R. I., by poison, at Denver, Col.......1891 [While awaiting his second trial he committed suicide in the county jail at Denver, Sept. 3, 1893.] Rev. Charles A. Briggs, charged by the presbytery of New York, Oct. 5, 1891, with teaching doctrines which conflict irreconcilably with, and are contrary to, the cardinal doctrines taught in the Holy Scriptures, in an address at the Union Theol
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Christian Temperance League organized at Cleveland, O.......Jan. 23, 1890 House of Representatives disputes on the power of the speaker to count a quorum when members present refuse to vote......Jan. 29, 1890 Wife and daughter of Secretary of the Navy Tracy lose their lives in the burning of their residence at Washington, D. C.......Feb. 3, 1890 Gentiles at Salt Lake City, Utah, for the first time obtain control in a local election......Feb. 10, 1890 Proclamation of the President opor restrictive laws......April 28, 1890 Act to provide for a temporary government in the Territory of Oklahoma......May 2, 1890 Commander B. H. McCalla sentenced to be suspended from rank and duty for three years; sentence approved by Secretary Tracy......May 15, 1890 McKinley tariff bill debated in the House of Representatives, May 7-10, and passed by the House, 164 to 142......May 21, 1890 Work of taking the United States census begins......June 2, 1890 McKinley tariff bill re
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Venezuela question. (search)
President Cleveland appointed the following commission: Judge David J. Brewer, chairman; Richard H. Alvey; Andrew D. White; Frederick R. Coudert, and Daniel C. Gilman. Upon their report both Great Britain and Venezuela agreed to submit the dispute to arbitration, and under this agreement the following arbitrators were selected: Chief-Justice Fuller, Associate Justice Brewer, Lord Chief-Justice Russell, of Killowen, Sir Richard Henn Collins, and Professor Martens. Ex-President Harrison, Gen. B. F. Tracy, M. Mallet-Prevost, and the Marquis of Rojas were counsel for Venezuela, and Attorney-General Sir Richard Webster and Sir Robert Reed for Great Britain. The arbitration tribunal met in Paris on June 15, 1899, and on Oct. 3 following rendered the following award unanimously: The undersigned, by these presents, give and publish our decision, determining and judging, touching and concerning the questions that have been submitted to us by said arbitration; and, in conformity with