Word: congress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cleveland suddenly sends a message to Congress asking for a commission upon whose report he is to say to England: "Back down or fight." Mr. Olney adds a letter to Lord Salisbury, saying that England's presence on this continent is a menace and an offence. Congress and a large part of our newspapers and people thereupon go fighting-drunk; and Mr. Roosevelt writes you a letter to call any of us who may have presumed to beg our congressmen to slow-up if they can, "betrayers" of our native land. We are evidently guilty of lese-majeste...
...question, as already announced in the CRIMSON, will be: "Resolved, That Congress should take immediate steps toward the complete retirement of all the legal tender notes." The debate itself will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Friday, March...
...political articles will be sure to attract attention, "The Emancipation of the Post-Office," by John R. Proctor, Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, and "Congress out of Date," the latter being an able statement of the evils due to the present system of convening Congress a year after its election...
...tender acts were passed as war measures: Cong. Globe, 1861-62 p. 523.- (b) A speedy redemption was anticipated: Cong. Globe, 1861-62 (Speeches on legal-tender bills).- (c) The Republicans passed an act almost unanimously to retire greenbacks, Dec. 18, 1865: Nation, LXI, 380.- (d) March 18, 1869. Congress passed an act solemnly pledging itself to make early provision for redemption of the United States notes in coin: E. C. Mason's Veto Power, S 61.- (e) President Grant urged Congress to retire the legaltender notes: McPherson, Handbook, 1874.- (f) President Hayes...
sage of December, 1879 called the attention of Congress to the danger of legaltender notes: McPherson, Handbook, 1880, p. 7.- (g) Both England and France have issued legal-tender notes under circumstances similar to our issue, but retired them directly after the exigencies which demanded them were over: Forum...