The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, Volume 2Evening News Association, 1893 |
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... Treaty of Berlin . 164 ..172 , 269 , 386 Outbreak in the Congo Free State .. 270 , 388 Move to disfranchise the blacks in Cape Unrecognized status of Prince Ferdinand . 228 Protest of Russia against the reception of Stambouloff at ...
... Treaty of Berlin . 164 ..172 , 269 , 386 Outbreak in the Congo Free State .. 270 , 388 Move to disfranchise the blacks in Cape Unrecognized status of Prince Ferdinand . 228 Protest of Russia against the reception of Stambouloff at ...
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... Treaty for settlement of old claims . Treaty with the United States .. China , Severity in crushing rebellion . Attempts to secure diplomatic audiences with the Emperor .... Anti - Christian disturbances Its reorganized army and navy ...
... Treaty for settlement of old claims . Treaty with the United States .. China , Severity in crushing rebellion . Attempts to secure diplomatic audiences with the Emperor .... Anti - Christian disturbances Its reorganized army and navy ...
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... Treaty , Behrin ; Sea jurisdiction .. Goa , Expiration of With Chili , regarding old claims .. Of commere between Germany and Russia Page 3 23 220 Retirement of Wischnegradsky . 225 , 348 378 With Chiliratified .. 332 Sales , Palo Alto ...
... Treaty , Behrin ; Sea jurisdiction .. Goa , Expiration of With Chili , regarding old claims .. Of commere between Germany and Russia Page 3 23 220 Retirement of Wischnegradsky . 225 , 348 378 With Chiliratified .. 332 Sales , Palo Alto ...
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... treaty is understood to have been due . to the fact that Secretary Blaine's original proposition for an Arbitration Commission consisting of five mem- bers was not assented to by Lord Sal- isbury , on account of it making no provision ...
... treaty is understood to have been due . to the fact that Secretary Blaine's original proposition for an Arbitration Commission consisting of five mem- bers was not assented to by Lord Sal- isbury , on account of it making no provision ...
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... treaty . It being apparent that the outcome of ar- bitration , whatever it might be , could not possibly be operative during the approaching sealing season , steps were taken by the United States to secure a renewal of the modus vivendi ...
... treaty . It being apparent that the outcome of ar- bitration , whatever it might be , could not possibly be operative during the approaching sealing season , steps were taken by the United States to secure a renewal of the modus vivendi ...
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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.