Word: votes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cleveland should not be re-elected in 1896.- (I) Because it is not advisable to return the Democratic party to power in 1896-(a) for the Republican party has a better financial policy than the Democratic party.- (1) This is shown by the vote on the repeal of the Sherman law (Forum, May, 1894).- (2) It is shown by recent party plat forms in representative Republican States-(x) Massachusetts, (y) New York.- (3) It is shown by recent votes in Congress.- (b) The tariff policy of the Republican party is at present better for the country than that...
...Erie and Munroe Counties pay higher taxes than St. Lawrence, Clinton, Chautauqua and Cattarugus Counties.- (c) Certain countries are deprived of the right of local self-government.- (d) It is not the part of the State to coerce the individual.- (e) This bill does not allow the people to vote on Sunday license.- (x) It closes the saloons on Sunday.- (y) The people of New York City have bitterly opposed this kind of state paternalism...
...change here announced has been long under consideration at this University. Its adoption was recommended, in substance, though under a slightly different form, by the Administrative Board of the Graduate School, 13 April, 1891; and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences expressed their approval of the vote of the Board. The Faculty made a further recommendation to the Corporation, 7 March, 1893; and again, 10 December, 1895. The last named action of the Faculty was taken in accordance with an expression of opinion from a Convention of Graduate Students, held in the city of New York, 16 April, 1895. This...
...following vote was also concurred in: To rescind so much of the standing vote of Dec. 18, 1871, on the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science as relates to the minimum residence for these degrees. The question of extending the right of voting for Overseers to graduates of the Lawrence Scientific School, the Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Divinity School, and to the holders of the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Science, was considered, and was decided in the negative...
...vote taken three weeks ago Saturday, the first three colleges, as named above, voted for Saratoga, while Columbia alone held out for the Poughkeepsie course. On the breaking up of the meeting of the Regatta Committee, it was agreed that if Columbia could get a bill passed by Congress, restricting traffic on the Poughkeepsie river during the day of the race, that the other three college would reconsider their vote. Three weeks were given to Columbia to put this bill through Congress but as the three weeks are up today and nothing has materialized the first decision of the committee...