. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. e completion of two years of a Democraticadministration, placed to its credit some very desirable legisla-tion, but failed to project into laws th
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. e completion of two years of a Democraticadministration, placed to its credit some very desirable legisla-tion, but failed to project into laws the issues which were dis-tinctively political and respecting which parties were divided orlikely to divide. The session adjourned by limitation on , 1887, andthe Congress as an entirety left the Tariff and Internal Revenuequestions where it found them; the Free Silver Coinage Lawremained in a worse state than before, for the issue of one, two andfive dollar silver certificates, based on the coin stored in the vaults,was only a postponement of the real question ; the Pacific Rail-road indebtedness was left to increase under the lame provisionsof the old Thurman Act; the bankrupt laws were left to themercy of each State; the basis of the National Bank circulationwas permitted to dwindle away without providing a substitute;indigent war veterans were unprovided for; the Senate billraising a Commission to examine into the Liquor Traffic was. DON M. DICKINSON. BENJAMIN HARRISON.
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