Word: clay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what a discussion of the tariff question should be; 3. Walker's Treasury Report of 1845, which after giving the figures of the Treasury, discusses the tariff and presents the case against protection; 4 and 5. Speeches on the tariff in the House of Representatives in 1824 by Clay and Webster...
...with all our courses in English we have none which treat of English orators and statesmen, - of Pitt, Burke, Bright and Fox in England; Webster, Phillips, Clay and Calhoun in America. Such a course seems to us to be one well worth considering, for it would be interesting to many students in English literature and, moreover, there are doubtless students to whom it would be an advantageous and necessary training. A half course would answer the purpose, its aim being the study of the speeches of English and American orators and statesmen, their construction and effectiveness; a comparison...
...founders: (1) Senate composed of very able men. - (2) Dignified and orderly. - (3) Conservative. - Present system the only practical way to secure an upper house differently composed from the lower house: Kent. Commentaries i 227; Cong. Rec. 1891 - 92, p. 3795; Johnston American Politics 253, 275, 276; Schurz, Clay ii. Ch. 15. - (b) the U. S. senate the best upper house in existence. - (1) It forms connecting link between the state and central government. - (2) A result sought by France and Germany without success. - (3) The U. S. senate has been initiated by South American and Swiss Republics...
...University is publishing through Henry Hall & Co. and some other firms, a collection of State Papers and Speeches on Tariff. Professor F. W. Taussig does the editing, and documents from Hamilton, Gallatin, R. J. Walker, Clay, and Webster give the discussion of the protective controversy...
...successful struggle against many odds, and of the valuable discoveries which he made in the temple of Bel at Niffer. His success in raising a large sum of money for the expedition, in overcoming diplomatic and other difficulties, and in securing for America a large portion of the clay books dug by him from a Babylonian building which has been a ruin for thousands of years, entitles him to eminent recognition. The hall in Jefferson Laboratory ought to be crowded this evening. The lecture begins at half past seven o'clock...