Official Congressional Directory, Volume 55, Issue 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - Directories, Governmental Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts. |
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... of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ; was a member of the Forty - seventh , Forth - eighth , Forty - ninth , Fiftieth , and Fifty - fourth Congresses and was reelected to the Fifty - fifth ...
... of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ; was a member of the Forty - seventh , Forth - eighth , Forty - ninth , Fiftieth , and Fifty - fourth Congresses and was reelected to the Fifty - fifth ...
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... of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ; is in command of the Second Brigade of the National Guard of New Jersey , and also connected with the management of various banks , trust companies , and ...
... of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ; is in command of the Second Brigade of the National Guard of New Jersey , and also connected with the management of various banks , trust companies , and ...
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... of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers , reappointed in 1892 , and elected vice - president of the Board in 1895 ; was a member of the National Democratic Committee four years , and in 1892 was ...
... of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers , reappointed in 1892 , and elected vice - president of the Board in 1895 ; was a member of the National Democratic Committee four years , and in 1892 was ...
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Page 229 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with Agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate and distribute among the people, new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 233 - 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 79 - Pleading; has been an advocate of free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to I...
Page 233 - States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place 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 transshipment, 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 233 - That the commission hereby created shall have authority to inquire into the management of the business of all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted...
Page 226 - Washington a department of education for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country.
Page 210 - States; and to negotiations of whatever character relating to the foreign affairs of the United States. He is also the medium of correspondence between the President and the chief executives of the several States of the United States...
Page 230 - Commission to aid the President, as he may request, in preparing suitable rules for carrying the act into effect. It is further made " the duty of all officers of the United States...
Page 232 - All claims (except for pensions) founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, upon any regulation of an Executive Department, upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 222 - Mail has charge of the railway mail service and the railway post-office clerks, prepares for the Second Assistant Postmaster-General cases for the appointment, removal, promotion, and reduction of said clerks, conducts the correspondence, and issues the orders relative to moving the mails on railroad trains; has charge of the dispatch and distribution of mail matter in railway post-office cars and post-offices, and conducts the weighing of mails when ordered.