Word: congress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...announcement was printed in the calendar. C. G. Morgan will speak on the negative side instead of R. C. Surbridge. The subjects are: 1. The McKinley Tariff Law is not beneficial to the country. 2. The Federal Elections Bill which passed the House of Representatives of the last Congress was not a wise Measure of Legislation. The Democrats will take the affirmative and the Republicans the negative. Dean Briggs will preside...
Questions: 1. Is the McKinley Tariff Law beneficial to the Country? 2. Was the Federal Elections Bill which passed the House of Representatives of the last Congress a wise Measure of Legislation...
...Annexation would be a political disadvantage to the United States. - (a) Majority of Canadians could not be loyal to a strange form of government: Forum IX, 562, - (b) A Canadian faction would be introduced into Congress; Forum, VI, 458, IX, 562. - (c) management of the vast-territory would be too much for a government already overcrowded with work...
...Question: "Resolved. That Congress ought to pass a comprehensive quarantine act." Principal disputants. - Affirmative: W. N. Cottrel and W. H. Davis. Negative: A. H. Gordon and W. Hill...
...National Quarantine Act unconstitutional. (c) Congress has no powers except those granted Am. to Const. Art. 10. (1) Power over commerce does not include quarantine powers; Story S1017. (2) Power over quarantine not granted by any other clause in the constitution: Cong...