The History of North America, Volume 18

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George Barrie & Sons, 1906
 

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Page 112 - And whereas it is of the utmost importance that all differences of opinion and all doubt and uncertainty upon these questions should be removed, to the end that the votes may be counted and the result declared by a tribunal whose authority none can question and whose decision all will accept...
Page 256 - He himself was of foreign birth, but Chicago and the State of Illinois were against the policy he represented. The immigration problem on the Pacific coast was of an entirely different character. There it has been, for two generations, solely a question of the Chinese. In the early days of the gold seekers the Chinese began to reach San Francisco, attracted by the high wages offered. The subject was of little importance until the construction of the Central Pacific was undertaken. The Pacific slope...
Page xviii - After effecting a vast consolidation of the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy...
Page 136 - GARFIELD'S SHORT PRESIDENCY The announcement of a cabinet brought trouble, chiefly of Conkling's making. Elaine, of Maine, was secretary of state, William Windom, of Minnesota, secretary of the treasury, Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, secretary of war, William H. Hunt, of Louisiana, secretary of the navy, Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania, attorney-general, Thomas L.
Page 224 - Ohio platform had declared for sound money in what was felt by many to be an equivocal statement. The interest in the meeting of the convention was largely centred in what Hanna, representing McKinley, would do. There has been in later years much controversy over what happened before the platform was arranged, but it seems now generally conceded that there never was a time when any candidate would declare for any adjustment that did not involve the gold standard or international bimetallism. Hanna,...
Page 123 - The Chair rules that when the Constitution of the United States directs anything to be done, or when the laws under the Constitution of the United States enacted in obedience thereto, direct any act of this House, it is not in order to make any motion to obstruct or impede the execution of the injunction of the Constitution and the laws.
Page 460 - People's party, except that In the House of Representatives of the Fiftyfourth Congress one member is classed as Silver party. "Three Senate seats were vacant (and continued so) and two Representative seats were unfilled (Rhode Island had not yet effected a choice) when the session began. Rhode Island subsequently elected two Republicans.
Page 129 - George W. McCrary, of Iowa, secretary of war ; Richard W. Thompson, of Indiana, secretary of the navy ; Charles Devens, of Massachusetts, attorney-general ; David M.
Page 162 - Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, secretary of state ; Daniel Manning of New York, secretary of the treasury ; William C. Endicott of Massachusetts, secretary of war; William C. Whitney of New York, secretary of the navy; William F.
Page 412 - ... enrolled. In 1869-70 the average attendance was only 59.3 per cent, while the past year it has been 69.2 per cent. As I have pointed out in my previous reports, the increase in average attendance and the increase in the length of the school term is due to the growth of villages and cities. A continually growing quota of the population lives in large villages and cities, and holds its schools open for a larger number of days each year.

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