Life of Edward H. Rollins: A Political Biography

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D. Estes, 1906 - 537 páginas
 

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Página 539 - This book is a preservation photocopy. It was produced on Hammennill Laser Print natural white, a 60 # book weight acid-free archival paper which meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper) Preservation photocopying and binding by Acme Bookbinding Charlestown. Massachusetts m 1995 The borrower must return this item on or before the last date stamped below.
Página 377 - That at the regular election held in any State next preceding the expiration of the term for which any Senator was elected to represent such State in Congress, at which election a Representative to Congress is regularly by law to be chosen, a United States Senator from said State shall be elected by the people thereof for the term commencing on the fourth day of March next thereafter.
Página 47 - This Convention of Delegates, assembled in pursuance of a call addressed to the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy of the present Administration, to the extension of Slavery into Free Territory ; in favor of admitting Kansas as a Free State, of restoring the action of the Federal Government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson...
Página 150 - My mind has undergone an entire change upon that subject; and I now believe that there are but two alternatives, and they are either an acknowledgment of the independence of the South as an independent nation, or their complete subjugation and extermination as a people ; and of these alternatives I prefer the former.
Página 331 - The full Christian and surname of every person voted for with the initial letter or letters of the middle name and the usual abbreviations for junior, second, third, and the like shall be written or printed upon every ballot, and every ballot not thus prepared and cast shall bo regarded as a blank and not counted.
Página 413 - Island for legislative purposes, though, when acting executively, or acting in the election of a Senator to represent the State in the Senate of the United States, the two Houses still act together as one body, and in that State are termed, by the laws and practice of the Government,
Página 179 - Committees upon whica he was assigned, serving as a member of the Committee on District of Columbia, as Chairman of the Committee on Accounts, and a member of the Committee on Public Expenditures, by which latter Committee, during his service, a vast amount of labor was performed, especially in the investigation of the management of the Boston and New York Custom Houses, involving the operations of the "blockade runners
Página 61 - Mann to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate occasioned by the death of Senator John Warwick Daniel for the remainder of his unexpired term, ending March 3, 1911 ; reappointed by Gov.
Página 340 - ... could have no greater weight or authority than a criticism of one branch of the government upon the conduct of another coordinate branch...
Página 152 - ... blow, and at the same moment indignant and outraged Heaven wreaked upon them the just retribution of their terrible and nameless crime.

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