Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Sunday opening is in accordance with the principles of our law and Constitution. - (a) The action of Congress does not represent the personal convictions and practice of congressmen: Nation, July 21, 1892; Forum, Oct. 1892, p. 196; Dec. 1892, 541. - (b) Violates the spirit of the Constitution: Forum, Dec. 1892, pp. 549-550; Const. Amendment I; Story, commentaries S 1070-1079; Cooley Const. Limit. 585; Von Holst Const...
...hotels. One point which the author specially dwells on is the drawback which the crews, and especially the losing crew, have to experience in the race from the surface-suction of the steamers which are following in their wake. He comes to the conclusion that the Conneticut Congressmen should see that a law should be passed for the police regulation of the river...
...republican party has forfeited confidence of the people. - (1) By selling "protection" to elect president. - (2) By +++ter disregard of civil service. - (3) By shameful administration of pension bureau. - (4) By stealing representation of a State in the Senate. - (5) By creating unfit states. - (6) By evicting Democratic congressmen. - (6) By speaker's usurpation of power. - (7) By making a fradulent census. - (8) By squandering surplus. - (8) By attempting to pass Force bill...
...graduates of Princeton college, nine sat in the Constitutional convention, one has been President, two Vice Presidents, four justices of the Supreme Court, one chief justice, five attorney-generals, and fifteen others Cabinet officers, twenty-eight governors of states, a hundred and seventy-one Senators and Congressmen, a hundred and thirty-six judges, forty-three college presidents, and a hundred and seventy-five professors...
...editor of the North American Review, in his effort to be non-partisan, evidently believes in Bacon's advice concerning physicians: "Take one of a middle temper; or, if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort." Three Democratic and three Republican Congressmen therefore contribute to the symposium on "What Congress Has Done." The Republicans, McKinley, Lodge and Dalzell, are unanimous in saying that the last session has done wonders; the Democrats are as unanimous in deciding that Congress has done a great many things it ought not to have done and left undone...