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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...government ought not to do a banking business.- (1) Government officials have neither personal nor material means to make a fiduciary currency flexible.- (a) Withdrawal would make the gold reserve unnecessary: Carlisle's Speech, in N. Y. Sun, Dec. 3, 1895.- (1) Maintenance of gold reserve has cost us at least $150,000,000 in the last two years.- (d) Whenever government reserve goes down, business interests are thrown into confusion.- (e) Greenbacks prevent banks from keeping gold in the country.- (1) Rates of discount can not be adjusted to demands of international trade.- (f) Greenbacks are always exchangeable...
...serve as a proper place for putting up strangers. Furthermore, it would in nowise compete or conflict with the existing small clubs and societies maintained by the undergraduates; it would simply offer the advantages above mentioned to any member of the University who wished to pay what they would cost-say, a fee of ten dollars a year...
Columbia College is to have two new buildings to be known as "Schermerhorn Hall" and "Physics Building." The former is the gift of Wm. C. Schermerhorn, chairman of the board of trustees, and will cost $300,000. It will be used by the school of sciences. The "Physics Building" will cost probably $200,000. Work will begin at once on these buildings...
Work has been begun on the new veterinary College buildings at Cornell. There are to be six buildings, with a total cost...
...free registry would not be advantageous.- (a) It will add nothing to our merchant marine.- (1) Why do not Americans now buy foreign vessels and sail them under foreign flags? Hall, 75.- (2) Foreign subsidizing gives an advantage to foreign carriers and there is not sufficient difference in the cost of building ships: No. Am. Rev. vol.: 156, p. 398.- (3) If ships should be built abroad our ship building industry and ship yards would be ruined.- (b) Free registry was proved unsuccessful in the United States.- (1) In 1859 when subsidies were withdrawn our transatlantic lines failed: Bates...