Word: congress
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...Resolved, That Congress was justified in imposing the terms embodied in the Platt amendment to the army appropriation bill, as conditions precedent to leaving the government and control of Cuba to its people, the condition with regard to the title to the Isle of Pines being excepted...
...Watertown dam have been purchased either by the cities along the river or by the Metropolitan Park Commission, and are new forever dedicated to park purposes. Moreover, a bill permitting the erection of a drawless bridge to replace the old West Boston bridge was recently passed by Congress, approved by the United States engineers and signed by the President. Within a year it will be impossible for vessels with masts to pass up the Charles River beyond the West Boston bridge...
...Yale Union, the principal debating organization at Yale, has recently adopted the form of a legislative body corresponding in nearly every way to the National Congress. The members have been equally divided into three parties, Republican, Democrat and Independent, and the members of each division are to advocate the general principles and political policies of the national party which they represent. Each division is also to have a leader, and those bills are to be discussed which are now being considered in Congress. No fixed division is to be made according to states, but every man will represent the state...
...George Frisbie Hoar '46, has been elected by the Massachusetts Legislature for his fifth term as United States Senator. Senator Hoar has already represented his state in Congress for thirty-two years...
...House, of ten Harvard men who were members of the fifty-sixth Congress, seven have been returned, but no other Harvard men have been elected. The list now stands as follows: From Illinois-Henry S. Boutell '76. George E. Foss '85, and Vespasian Warner L. S. '68; from Massachusetts - William H. Moody '76 and Henry F. Naphen L. S. '78; from New York - Lucius N. Littauer '78; from Rhode Island - Melvile Bull...