Word: congos
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...House a marionnette show and now crushes the unimportant member, have never existed. To the Senate, every president, each secretary of state have submitted their treaties in fear and trembling. Even minor treaties are subject to arduous Senatorial scrutiny. Mrs. Lowry cites the fate of one concerning the Congo Free State. When the Senate finally ratified it, it "was so bedeviled as to its verbiage that it might have been an extract from a Delaware traction charter". Secretary of State Hay re-read it and stated that "he was going to have it parsed by a commission of grammarians...
...rest of the exhibit consists of two small notebooks, describing a journey in the Congo during June and July, 1890. One contains notes of a march neross country with perters and native guides. The other tells of a trip by boat on the Congo River. Of unusual interest in the second notebook are the precise directions given for passing from point to point. How suags and shoals are to be avoided is also clearly set forth. Both books are in the anthor's own hand...
...Congo Beige, Africa...
...have subscribed for a friend, Rev. A. Hoyt Miller, A. P. C. M., Bibanga, Kabinda, Lomami District, Congo Beige, Africa, via Cape Town, and I should like to request the same service...
...Governor of the Belgian Congo was recently ordered by the Home Government to collect an "income tax" of 20 francs a head from the natives of the Congo. The task looked impossible. But the Governor is resourceful. According to reports he directed the natives to capture and bring in rare butterflies especially the kind called Urania. He gives them a tax receipt and then retails the insects for about 30 francs apiece to collectors in Europe...