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...referred to the official despatches made in the blue books; that any alien, resident for five years in the Transvaal should have full political rights; that Johannesburg should be admitted to the legislature, and that the English language as well as the Dutch should be used in the legislature. Consular representation between the Transvaal and the European states gave the Transvaal the status of an independent state. At the convention at London in 1884 the word "suzerainty" was omitted and thus it became a known fact that the Transvaal was independent. The drafter of the constitution admitted that...
...Civil Service Reform Club will hold its first smoke talk Monday, at 7.30, in the Colonial Club. Professor E. H. Strobel will speak on "Our Diplomatic and Consular Service," and Professor S. M. Macvane will give a short talk on "The English Civil Service System." Five of these smoke talks will be held in the course of this year...
...practice-R. P. Porter, Bread Winners Abroad, Chaps. 16, 28, 49, 51, 53, 56, 57, 84, 104; E. A. Hartshorn, Wages, Living and Tariff; Roach in International Review, Vol. 13, p. 455; Swank, Our Bessemer Steel Industry, p. 23; Harper's Mag., Vol. 74, p. 780; Consular Reports, No. 40, p. 340; C. D. Wright in Forum...
...Income Tax is objectionable in administration: Mill's Political Economy, II, 426. - (1) Difficult to ascertain real incomes. - (2) Inquisitorial in nature. - (3) A tax on honesty. - (c) It is not approved by experience. - (1) Has serious inequalities: Gustav Cohn in Political Science Quarterly, IV, 56 March 1889); Consular Reports, 1888, Vol. 99, 100, p. 700. - (2) Creates discontent: Bastable, Public Finance, p. 434. - (3) It is a war tax: J. Sherman, Cong. Rec. June...
...Removals have been made for in sufficient cause: The clean sweep in the internal revenue service in 1885-8 and Quincy's looting of the consular service last summer...