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... to co - operate to give them effect . VIII . The arbitrators may be asked to de- cide on questions of fact in claims for inju- ries received through suspension of sealing operations , the question. THE BEHRING SEA DISPUTE . 3.
... to co - operate to give them effect . VIII . The arbitrators may be asked to de- cide on questions of fact in claims for inju- ries received through suspension of sealing operations , the question. THE BEHRING SEA DISPUTE . 3.
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... give security for satisfying any dam- ages the arbitrators might adjudge . He President Harrison's rejoinder to this reply was dated March 22 . vigorously asserted the intention of the United States to insist upon the right to prevent ...
... give security for satisfying any dam- ages the arbitrators might adjudge . He President Harrison's rejoinder to this reply was dated March 22 . vigorously asserted the intention of the United States to insist upon the right to prevent ...
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... give to this associa- tion his approval . The influence of the " Union " has been the cause of much of the warfare lately carried on by the clergy against the Administra- tion . Determined to prevent the ser- ious consequences which ...
... give to this associa- tion his approval . The influence of the " Union " has been the cause of much of the warfare lately carried on by the clergy against the Administra- tion . Determined to prevent the ser- ious consequences which ...
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... gives to the hitherto indefinite northern frontier of India , a definite , natural boundary in the Hindoo Koosh range of ... give £ 12,000,000 for the territory south of Mozambique . The contempt with which his proposals were received ...
... gives to the hitherto indefinite northern frontier of India , a definite , natural boundary in the Hindoo Koosh range of ... give £ 12,000,000 for the territory south of Mozambique . The contempt with which his proposals were received ...
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... give his unqualified support . Mr.Sexton's amendment condemned as futile the operation of the Land Purchase Act of 1891. It had mani- festly failed , he said , to afford a basis for an extension of the class of occu- pying tenants ; not ...
... give his unqualified support . Mr.Sexton's amendment condemned as futile the operation of the Land Purchase Act of 1891. It had mani- festly failed , he said , to afford a basis for an extension of the class of occu- pying tenants ; not ...
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Page 177 - Republican protection as a fraud — a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when honestly and economically administered.
Page 74 - All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
Page 276 - ... worth of commodities consumed in their production; the existing currency supply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; the results are falling prices, the formation of combines and rings, the impoverishment of the producing class. We pledge ourselves that, if given power, we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation, in accordance with the terms of our platform.
Page 3 - Pacific Ocean," as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia, and what rights, if any, in the Behring Sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said treaty ? 4.
Page 3 - March 1867, pass unimpaired to the United States under that Treaty? 5. Has the United States any right, and if so, what right of protection or property in the fur-seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Behring Sea when such seals are found outside the ordinary three-mile limit?
Page 74 - We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general Government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations, a just, equitable, and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, to be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers...
Page 164 - Bulgaria was constituted an autonomous and tributary principality under the suzerainty of the Porte...
Page 276 - ... campaign, every issue but one. They propose to drown the outcries of a plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives, and children on the altar of mammon; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires.
Page 122 - ... hundred a season, upon the basis of the difference between this number and such larger catch as in the opinion of the Arbitrators might have been taken without an undue diminution of the seal-herds.
Page 3 - Sea, and what exclusive rights in the seal fisheries therein, did Russia assert and exercise prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States ? •?. How far were these claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries recognized and conceded by Great Britain ? 3.