The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . or marshals at elections, and prohibitingthe government from incurring any liability forthem, finally became a law, shorn of its third, appropriating $600,000 for marshals,
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . or marshals at elections, and prohibitingthe government from incurring any liability forthem, finally became a law, shorn of its third, appropriating $600,000 for marshals, butcontaining the same political features as the previousmeasure, was passed, again by Democratic votes,but failed to become a law. On June 13lh the presi-dent approved an act providing that subsidiary sil-ver coin could be exchanged in sums of $30, or mul-tiples thei-eof, for lawful money at the treasury orits branches, and that subsidiary silver should be alegal tender to the amount of §10. A bill for theunlimited free coinage of standard silver dollars,which were to be legal tender, was introduced intothe house by Adoniram J. Warner (Democrat), ofOhio, and was passed, nine Republicans voting forit and eight Democrats against it. The senate, how-ever, took no action on the measure at this session. The46th congress (1875-81) met for its second (first regularannual) session Dec. 1, 1879. Pres. Hayes in his. ipiege) Groverremont 01)10. annual message congratulated congress on the suc-cess of the resumption of specie payments and thegreat revival of business; announced a gratifying re-duction of the public debt; declared that it wouldbe impossible to maintain the silver dollar at parwith unlimited free coinage; recommended the re-tirement of greenbacks ; recommended action tostamp out polygamy in the territories, and devotedmuch space to civil service reform, dwelling on thesuccessful trial of the competitive system in variousbranches of the public service. On March 3, 1880,th
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