A HAND-BOOK OF POLITICS FOR 1894: BEING A RECORD OF IMPORTANT POLITICAL ACTION, LEGISLATIVE AND EXECUTIVE, NATIONAL From July 31, 1892, to August 15, 1894. BY HON. EDWARD MCPHERSON, LL.D., OF GETTYSBURG, PENN'A, REPRESENTATIVE IN 36TH AND 37TH CONGRESSES, AND CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U. S., IN 38TH, 39TH, 40TH, 41ST, 42D, 43D, ! WICKERSHAM PRINTING CO., Entered according to Act of Congress, in 1894, BY EDWARD MCPHERSON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. ELECTROTYPERS AND PRINTERS, PREFACE. THIS Volume is largely a record of the efforts of the Democratic Party, which Nearly one-third of the volume is given to the passage, through the Congress, Next in interest, and hardly inferior to it, is the record of the long struggle in The repeal of all the Statutes of the United States touching the election of Within the period covered by this Volume a new Republic has sprung into The startling Railway Strike, which for nearly three weeks during the past A glance at the Table of Contents will show the wide scope of the Volume, The Tabular Statements on Elections, Appropriations, Revenues, Expenditures, (iii) MAR 17 1908 225234 |