Official Congressional Directory, Volume 55, Issue 2, Part 1; Volume 55, Issue 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - Directories, Governmental Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts. |
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... Pennsylvania , who had been chosen governor of that State , resigned his seat in the House from the Twenty - third district , and at an election held November 29 Hon . W. H. Graham was elected to fill out the unexpired term . Hon ...
... Pennsylvania , who had been chosen governor of that State , resigned his seat in the House from the Twenty - third district , and at an election held November 29 Hon . W. H. Graham was elected to fill out the unexpired term . Hon ...
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... Pennsylvania in 1851 ; practiced medicine for a number of years , but for the last twenty years has devoted his time to general farming and stock raising ; was never a candidate for office until 1890 , when he was elected to represent ...
... Pennsylvania in 1851 ; practiced medicine for a number of years , but for the last twenty years has devoted his time to general farming and stock raising ; was never a candidate for office until 1890 , when he was elected to represent ...
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... Pennsylvania in July , 1877 , and arrived at Winona August 1 following , where he obtained employment as machinist , and worked at that trade till January 1 , 1881 , when he commenced the study of law in the office of Bentley & Vance ...
... Pennsylvania in July , 1877 , and arrived at Winona August 1 following , where he obtained employment as machinist , and worked at that trade till January 1 , 1881 , when he commenced the study of law in the office of Bentley & Vance ...
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... Pennsylvania Railroad system ; was elected State senator from Camden County in 1872 , reelected in 1875 and again in 1878 , and was president of the senate in the years 1876 , 1879 , and 1880 , when his party was in power ; while yet a ...
... Pennsylvania Railroad system ; was elected State senator from Camden County in 1872 , reelected in 1875 and again in 1878 , and was president of the senate in the years 1876 , 1879 , and 1880 , when his party was in power ; while yet a ...
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... Pennsylvania Reserves ; was colonel of the One hundred and thirty - fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers ; was lieutenant - colonel and assistant commissary - general ; was State military agent at Washington ; was private secretary to the ...
... Pennsylvania Reserves ; was colonel of the One hundred and thirty - fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers ; was lieutenant - colonel and assistant commissary - general ; was State military agent at Washington ; was private secretary to the ...
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Page 235 - That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 236 - ... in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States, and also to the transportation in like manner of property shipped from any place in the United States to a foreign country and carried from such place to a port of trans-shipment, or shipped from a foreign country to any place in the United States and carried to such place from a port of entry either in the United States or an adjacent foreign country...
Page 66 - Pleading; has been an advocate of free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1...
Page 236 - Act and the employees of such carrier, seriously interrupting or threatening to interrupt the business of said carrier, the chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Commissioner of Labor...
Page 223 - In no manner discriminate against any port or place; and at such ports and places within the United States as have no quarantine regulations under State or municipal authority, where such regulations are, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, necessary to prevent the Introduction of contagious or Infectious...
Page 237 - The Bureau of Labor Statistics is charged with the duty of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relations to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 244 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty if the United States were suable...
Page 45 - Massachusetts delegation in 1880, 1884, and 1888; was one of the managers on the part of the House of Representatives of the Belknap impeachment trial in 1876; was a member of the Electoral Commission in 1876; was regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1880...
Page 237 - To aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying this act into effect, and when said rules shall have been promulgated it shall be the duty of all officers of the United States...
Page 231 - SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of public business relating to...