. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. mportant result of thehard times was a great railroad strike in Chicago in began with a strike of the workmen in the Pullman car-building shops, and extended to railroad men, w^ho refusedto take out trains containing Pullman cars. The movementof trains was greatly interfered with, much railroad prop-erty was destroyed, and in the end the President sent UnitedStates troops to Chicago to maintain order and protect themovement of the mails. The Sherman Act Repealed.—President Cleveland, be-lieving that the busi
. A history of the United States of America, its people, and its institutions. mportant result of thehard times was a great railroad strike in Chicago in began with a strike of the workmen in the Pullman car-building shops, and extended to railroad men, w^ho refusedto take out trains containing Pullman cars. The movementof trains was greatly interfered with, much railroad prop-erty was destroyed, and in the end the President sent UnitedStates troops to Chicago to maintain order and protect themovement of the mails. The Sherman Act Repealed.—President Cleveland, be-lieving that the business depression was caused by the largepurchases and coinage of silver under the Sherman Act,called a special of Congress in 1893, which, afterlong deliberation, passed a bill prohibiting further bullion accumulated in the Treasury was still coined,but no new silver was bought. The Wilson Tariff.—In 1894 a new tariff bill was passed,known, from its promoter, as the Wilson Tariff. It retainedto some degree the principle of protection, though it re-. from Greenwich
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