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...June 3, 1864, General Grant gave the command to attack. His soldiers were led by Generals Sheridan, H. G. Wright, W. F. Smith, Burnside. The village was defended by Generals Hoke, Kershaw, Pickett, Field, Early, under General...
...Married. Hoke Smith, 69, former U. S. Senator from Georgia, to Miss Mazie Crawford, 28, his secretary; in Pelham Manor, N. Y. Mr. Smith was Secretary of the Interior in President Cleveland's Cabinet and was twice Governor of Georgia...
...states have taken action on the proposed Constitutional Amendment* giving Congress power to regulate or prohibit child labor. Arkansas ratified it, Georgia rejected it. Before the Georgia Assembly went many speakers, among them ex-Senator Hoke Smith†objecting to the Amendment as an invasion of States' Rights. It was defeated by a vote of 170 to 3. The State Senate acted similarly. In Georgia, 89,000 children between the ages of 10 and 15 years- 20.8% of that age-group-are workers. Boys of 12, if orphans, are permitted to work in cotton mills. There is a maximum...
...Passed by two-thirds vote of the House, in April; of the Senate, in May; must be ratified by 36 states to become effective. † Good friends describe Hoke Smith as "tall, well-built, intellectual, forceful, genial, tactful; he does all the things that become a man." He was born at Newton, N. C., 1855, lawyer, journalist, educator, Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland 1893-96, Governor of Georgia 1907-11, U. S. Senator from Georgia...
...higher than the price fixed by the Paymaster General of the Navy for such sugar. Nevertheless, the sugar corporation claimed 25? per pound, making a balance due them of $37,350 plus interest. Their attorney has taken this claim to the Court of Claims, said attorney being the Hon. Hoke Smith, onetime Senator (Democrat...