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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bering sea arbitration. (search)
d for was greatly in excess of the just and legal claims of the Canadian sealers, and that it was in direct conflict with the views of the agent and counsel of the United States before the tribunal, they were taunted with the charge that this obligation had been contracted by the administration of which they were supporters. The member of the committee on appropriations who had the measure in charge said: This is not our foreign policy. We are paying a debt which you gentlemen gave us. Mr. McCreary, chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, in advocacy of the appropriation. used this language: regret that we have been placed in an attitude where we have to pay this amount; but the gentlemen on the other side of this House cannot claim that we caused the existing situation. How unwarranted were these assertions is shown in the foregoing review. It may have been the wisest policy to vote the appropriation, but it was no breach of our international obligations not to approve o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kentucky, (search)
Thomas Metcalfe1828 to 1832 John Breathitt1832 to 1834 J. T. Morehead1834 to 1836 James Clark1836 to 1837 C. A. Wickliffe1837 to 1840 Robert P. Letcher1840 to 1844 William Owsley1844 to 1848 John J. Crittenden1848 to 1850 John L. Helm1850 to 1851 Lazarus W. Powell1851 to 1855 Charles S. Morehead1855 to 1859 Beriah Magoffin1859 to 1861 J. F. Robinson1861 to 1863 Thomas E. Bramulette1863 to 1867 John L. Helm1867 John W. Stevenson1868 to 1871 Preston H. Leslie1871 to 1875 James B. McCreary1875 to 1879 Luke P. Blackburn1879 to 1883 J. Proctor Knott1883 to 1887 Simon B. Buckner1887 to 1891 J. Y. Brown1891 to 1895 William O. Bradley1896 to 1900 William S. Taylor1900 William Goebel1900 J. C. W. Beckham1900 to — United States Senators. Name.No. of Congress.Term. John Brown2d to 9th1792 to 1805 John Edwards2d to 4th1792 to 1795 Humphrey Marshall4th to 7th1795 to 1801 John Breckinridge7th to 9th1801 to 1805 John Adair9th1805 to 1806 Henry Clay9th1806 to 1807
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
d to the tariff bill in the House by 175 to 56, Jan. 31, and the bill amended passed by 204 to 140; not voting, eight......Feb. 1, 1894 Old corvette Kearsarge, which fought and sank the Alabama off Cherbourg, France, during the Civil War, is wrecked on Roncardo Reef, about 200 miles northeast from Bluefields, Nicaragua; no lives lost......Feb. 2, 1894 Bland silver bill, providing for the coinage of seigniorage to the amount of $55,000,000, introduced in the House......Feb. 7, 1894 McCreary resolutions on Hawaii, upholding the administration policy, pass the House by 177 to 76; not voting, ninety-eight......Feb. 7, 1894 Federal election laws repeal bill passes the Senate by 39 to 28, Feb. 7; approved......Feb. 8, 1894 Wheeler H. Peckham, of New York, nominated associate justice of the Supreme Court, Jan. 22; nomination rejected by the Senate, through the influence of Senator Hill, of New York, by 41 to 32......Feb. 16, 1894 Senator E. D. White, of Louisiana, nominated