Word: enact
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That Congress should be empowered by constitutional amendment to enact a national marriage and divorce...
...Public sentiment is opposed to it. (a) It is hasty. - (1) Not adequately considered in committee. - (2) Rushed through to show that the party can enact constructive legislation: Transcript, Dec. 17. - (b) Only one banker out of 50 who wrote to Hon. Wm. Springer approves it: Herald, Dec. 18. - (c) It is a weak and impolitic scheme. - (1) Tends to make depreciated paper redundant. - (2) Revives "wildcat" state banks. - (3) Divorces the government and bankings - (d) Several substitutes are offered. - (1) Eckels's plan. - (2) Baltimore plan. - (3) Senate Bill. - (4) Walker's Bill. - (e) Leading papers utterly opposed...
...republican platform of 1888. made the following pledges: Tribune Almanac, 1889; a. To revise the tariff on protective principles. b. To legislate in the interest of pure elections. c. To facilitate the admission of new States. d. To enact a more generous pension...
...question was, Resolved, That Congress should be empowered by constitutional amendment to enact a national divorce...
Question: "Resolved. That Congress should be empowered by constitutional amendment to enact a national divorce...