Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Press 8-26; Iowa St. Reg., 6-21. - (c) The U. S. is the only power which can interfere satisfactorily. - (d) The United States should have power over U. S. elections. - (e) A fraud against franchise is a crime against liberty. - (f) Existence of nation demands enforcement of the constitution...
...Free registry would endanger the safety of the American nation. - (a) The experience of the civil war showed the value of ship-yards. "Ninety-days gun-boats" enabled the North to control the Southern rivers and defeat the "Merrimac." - (b) The weakness of the South was due in a large measure to her lack of being able to build ships. - (c) In case of a war with England we should be helpless...
...rules are a great departure from previous practice. - (a) Counting of a quorum. - (b) Suppression of fillibustering. - (c) Mr. Reed formerly held to the old principles; speech, January 30, 1880. (See Nation above...
...dangerous. - (a) Unconstitutional. - (1) Not in accordance with the practice up to 1889; contemporaneous exposition. - (2) A majority prescribed by the constitution. - (3) The House not in absolute control of its own procedure; Consti, Art. 1, $5; Bryce, pp. 129-131. - (b) Indefinite, by being capable of different interpretations; Nation, Feb. 13, 1890, p. 124. - (c) Dangerous. - (1) Rules are intended to protect, not to oppress minorities...
...rules place the control of the House almost exclusively in the hands of one man; McMillin in Cong. Record, vol. 2, App. p. 25; - (a) They injure Congress as a deliberative body; - (b) They enable the speaker to declare bill passed when the rolls show the contrary; Nation, Feb. 13, p. 124; - (c) They make it possible to "railroad" bills through Congress...