Official Congressional Directory, Volume 55U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - Directories, Governmental Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts. |
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... Chicago national Republican convention in 1888 ; treasurer of the State of Connecti- cut from 1889 to 1893. He was the Republican nominee for Congress in 1892 , but was defeated by a small majority ; again a candidate in 1894 , he was ...
... Chicago national Republican convention in 1888 ; treasurer of the State of Connecti- cut from 1889 to 1893. He was the Republican nominee for Congress in 1892 , but was defeated by a small majority ; again a candidate in 1894 , he was ...
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... Chicago in 1884 ; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat , to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Thomas F. Bayard as Secretary of State ; was reelected in 1887 and in 1893. His term of service will expire March ...
... Chicago in 1884 ; was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat , to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Thomas F. Bayard as Secretary of State ; was reelected in 1887 and in 1893. His term of service will expire March ...
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... Chicago in 1884 ; in 1868 he was elected Presidential elector ( Seymour and Blair ) on the Democratic ticket ; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia house of repre- sentatives , of which body he has served as a member for fourteen years ...
... Chicago in 1884 ; in 1868 he was elected Presidential elector ( Seymour and Blair ) on the Democratic ticket ; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia house of repre- sentatives , of which body he has served as a member for fourteen years ...
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... Chicago , was born in Franklinville , Cattaraugus County , N. Y. , July 7 , 1850 ; removed with his parents to Bentonsport , Iowa , in 1858 ; attended school at the Bentonsport Academy and Birmingham College ; taught school from 1866 to ...
... Chicago , was born in Franklinville , Cattaraugus County , N. Y. , July 7 , 1850 ; removed with his parents to Bentonsport , Iowa , in 1858 ; attended school at the Bentonsport Academy and Birmingham College ; taught school from 1866 to ...
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... Chicago . HUGH REID BELKNAP , of Chicago , was born in Keokuk , Iowa , September 1 , 1860. He attended the public schools there , and also took a course of instruction at the Adams Academy , Quincy , Mass . , completing his education at ...
... Chicago . HUGH REID BELKNAP , of Chicago , was born in Keokuk , Iowa , September 1 , 1860. He attended the public schools there , and also took a course of instruction at the Adams Academy , Quincy , Mass . , completing his education at ...
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Page 225 - 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 229 - 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 - It is evident that if the opportunity for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 had still existed, there would have been another sudden change in the actual monetary standard.
Page 229 - 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 229 - 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 225 - 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 225 - 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 59 - 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; has been president and is now vice-president of the American Antiquarian Society...
Page 227 - 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 227 - It has general jurisdiction of 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, expressed or implied, with the Government of the United States...