. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . d representedwithout intermis- si°n tne onlyDemocratic dis-trict in Philadel-phia. He served on the committees on banking,rules, and elections, distinguished himself by hisspeeches against the force bill in 1875, was a can-didate for speaker in the next year, and was ap-pointed chairman of the committee on appropria-tions. He gained credit by his success in curtailingexpenditures by enforcing a system of proportionalreduction in the appropriations, and, on the deathiif .Michael C. Kerr, was elected speaker, 4 Dec.,IsTii. He was re-elected speake
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . d representedwithout intermis- si°n tne onlyDemocratic dis-trict in Philadel-phia. He served on the committees on banking,rules, and elections, distinguished himself by hisspeeches against the force bill in 1875, was a can-didate for speaker in the next year, and was ap-pointed chairman of the committee on appropria-tions. He gained credit by his success in curtailingexpenditures by enforcing a system of proportionalreduction in the appropriations, and, on the deathiif .Michael C. Kerr, was elected speaker, 4 Dec.,IsTii. He was re-elected speaker in the two follow-ing congresses, serving in that capacity till 3 March,1881. Mr. Randall bore a conspicuous part in thedebates on the tariff as the leader of the protec-tionist wing of the Democratic party. His widowis a laughter of Aaron Ward, of New York. RANDALL, Samuel S., author, b. in Nor-wich. N. 27 May. 1809: d. in New York city,3 June, 1881. He was educated »\ < ixldrd academyand at Hamilton college, and in 1830-6 practised. law in Chenango county. In 1836-7 he was deputyclerk of the state assembly, in May, 1837, he wasappointed clerk in the department of commonschools, and in 1838 he became general deputysuperintendent of common schools, which office heheld till 1854. After serving for a short time assuperintendent of Brooklyn public schools, he wasappointed to a similar post in New York city, andsi-nvd till June, 1870, when he resigned. Prom1845 till 1852 he edited the District School Jour-nal, and he was the associate editor of the Amer-ican Journal of Education and College Review,and of the Northern Light. published at other works he published Digest of theCommon-School System of the State of New York (Troy, 1844); Incentives to the Cultivation ofGeology (New York, 1846); Mental and MoralCulture and Popular Education (1850); FirstPrinciples of Popular Education (1868); and History of the State of New York (1870).—Hiscousin, Henry Stephens
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