Word: congress
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...president's report will be read with interest by all persons connected with Harvard University. This document is to the Harvard community what President Arthur's annual message to Congress is to the country at large. Every year it is looked forward to as the official presentation of facts and solution of difficulties that have puzzled us. Here we expect to find explanations for actions that have been incomprehensible and therefore to some extent have seemed unnecessary. The document before us gives us the explanations and presents a great deal of matter of interest...
...bill will be introduced in Congress this week to appropriate $1,500,000 for reimbursing private contributors to the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition...
...Taylor, Republican, was yesterday elected to fill out the unexpired term in Congress of the late Mr. Updegraff, from the seventeenth Ohio district, and General Joseph Wheeler, Democrat, was chosen to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Lowe, in the eighth Alabama district...
...army appropriation bill has been completed and will probably be presented to Congress today. It appropriates in round numbers $23,000.000 - $1,600,000 less than for the current year...
...joint select committee of Congress on American shipping yesterday adopted several important propositions for the relief of the shipping interests of the country...