Word: voted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Vote on the merits of the question-affirmative 37, negative...
...foundation of a class fund. It has been by no means, the custom of the majority of the classes, however, to appropriate the surplus to the purpose just mentioned, and I think that Ninety-two would not be acting in opposition to an established precedent, if it were to vote the money to the crew management. Nothing is surer than that the crew will need the financial aid of every man in the class, and if the members vote to turn this amount over to the crew, they will show that they intend to furnish the financial support which...
...vote was then taken on the merits of the question which was to be debated, Resolved, That the president of the United States should be elected directly by a majority vote of the people. It resulted in a vote of 16 for the affirmative and 27 for the negative...
...vote on the merits of the principal disputants was then taken with the following result: affirmative 13, negative...
...Rich then closed his argument by proposing a system of election, wherein the country should be divided into electoral districts and each elector chosen separately, to vote separately, not by states as at present. The proposal of this system he claimed to be a very strong argument for the negative...