Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Rule of Senate always heretofore been found ample for the conduct of public business; Congr. Rec. p. 1755. b. Opposition agree to limit debate on all matters necessary to the support of the government, such as appropriation bills, silver bill, etc., but not on purely partisan and sectional measures; Congr...
...editor of the North American Review, in his effort to be non-partisan, evidently believes in Bacon's advice concerning physicians: "Take one of a middle temper; or, if it may not be found in one man, combine two of either sort." Three Democratic and three Republican Congressmen therefore contribute to the symposium on "What Congress Has Done." The Republicans, McKinley, Lodge and Dalzell, are unanimous in saying that the last session has done wonders; the Democrats are as unanimous in deciding that Congress has done a great many things it ought not to have done and left undone...
...assessments on government employees; Pres. of the Union of State Rep. Associations in Boston Herald May 12, 1890; Boston Post, Sept. 16, 1890; Letter of Rep. State Exec. Com., Boston Post, Oct. 26, 1890; 4. Dismissals from office for political reasons. e. As to honest politics. 1. Wasteful and partisan appropriations, especially in pension legislation; D. A. Wells in Boston Herald July 8, 1890; Nation, Vol. 40, p. 438. 2. Grossest corruption in its leaders at the National and State elections; Schurz's speech, Boston Post, Oct. 21, 1890; Nation...
...will make the judiciary a partisan body: Text of the bill on appointment of the supervisors by the judges...
...mass meeting last evening was by no means so large or representative a meeting as the one of the night before. Mr. Dexter, considering himself a partisan, refused to take the chair and Mr. C. M. Thayer, '89, was elected chairman. The following communication was read by the chairman...