Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . dur-ing a period of strained relations betweenthe United States and Chile; commandedthe battle-ship Iowa and took an activepart in the destruction of Cerveras fleet;was promoted rear-admiral in 1901. Heis author of A Sailors Log and manymagazine articles. EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL Evarts, William Maxwell, statesman; son in his impeachment before the Senateborn in Boston, Mass., Feb. 6, 1818; in 1868. President Hayes appointed at Yale College in 1837; stud- Evarts Secre
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . dur-ing a period of strained relations betweenthe United States and Chile; commandedthe battle-ship Iowa and took an activepart in the destruction of Cerveras fleet;was promoted rear-admiral in 1901. Heis author of A Sailors Log and manymagazine articles. EVARTS, WILLIAM MAXWELL Evarts, William Maxwell, statesman; son in his impeachment before the Senateborn in Boston, Mass., Feb. 6, 1818; in 1868. President Hayes appointed at Yale College in 1837; stud- Evarts Secretary of State in March, 1877,ied law, and was admitted to the bar, in and in January, 1885, he was electedthe city of New York, in 1840, where he United States Senator, holding the seat till 1891. He died in New York City,Feb. 28, 1901. Bimetallism.—In 1881, after the conclu-sion of his term of service in the cabinet,he went to Paris as delegate of the UnitedSlates to the International Monetary Con-ference. He there made the following pleafor the employment of both gold and sil-ver in the money of the world:. The question now put to us is—as isobvious everywhere in the progress of thisconference—the question now put to us is, Why is it that in your wealth, yourstrength, your manifold and flexible ener-gies and opportunities in the conflicts andcompetitions of the system of nations rep-resented here, why is it that you feel con-cern for mischiefs which carry no specialsuflFering or menace to you or anxiety asto the methods of their cure, when you areso free-handed as to the methods and re-sorts at your choice? Why should theseevils that have grown out of a short-sight-ed and uncircumspect policy, as you (theafterwards resided and practised his pro- United States) think; why should you sofession. He was one of the ablest and persistently call upon all the nations tomost eloquent members of the bar, and unite, and put yourselves, as it were, onheld a foremost rank in his pr
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