Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Senator Allison, chairman of the Senate committee on appropriations, has received a letter from the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. saying his company has no intention to make a claim for compensation for courtesies extended to the late President and his family or to the government...
...claims for expenses connected with the illness of Gen. Garfield have yet been presented, although the time for filing them has expired Judge Taylor, Chairman of the committee on claims, says that none of the physicians will receive $50,000 as reported. He thinks that $10,000 ought to be paid to Bliss...
...chairman of the executive committee of the Harvard Union, in his report at the last meeting, stated that the prospects of the Union for the next year were better than ever before; for the reason that the class of '84, upon whom the brunt of the work would then fall, had come forward with more readiness than any previous class. We congratulate the sophomores upon this compliment, and the Union upon its promise of growing usefulness for the university. But it is also time that the freshmen should begin to manifest some interest in the work, if this success...
...Frost was declared elected alderman and Mr. Stebbins chosen chairman of the board of aldermen of Boston yesterday...
...bill has been introduced in the House by the chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia to appropriate $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the pestilent marshes in the harbors of Washington and Georgetown...