. A history of the United States . The flood swept on to Johnstown, a busy manufactur-ing town, which was almost completely destroyed. About2200 persons are thought to have lost their lives, many wholefamilies being swept out of existence, and property valuedat #10,000,000 was destroyed or rendered worthless. Againwere contributions quickly and liberally made to aid thesufferers. During the last few days of the preceding administration,Congress had authorized the admission of four new states,which, having fulfilled the required conditions, were admittedto the Union by proclamations of the Pres
. A history of the United States . The flood swept on to Johnstown, a busy manufactur-ing town, which was almost completely destroyed. About2200 persons are thought to have lost their lives, many wholefamilies being swept out of existence, and property valuedat #10,000,000 was destroyed or rendered worthless. Againwere contributions quickly and liberally made to aid thesufferers. During the last few days of the preceding administration,Congress had authorized the admission of four new states,which, having fulfilled the required conditions, were admittedto the Union by proclamations of the President in the fall of 1889. They were North Da-kota, South Dakota, Montana,and Washington. Idaho andWyoming were admitted inJuly, 1890, and Utah in Jan-uary, 1896, making the num-ber of states Pan-American Congress.(1889-1890.) — In the autumnof 1889 a congress of representa-tives from the principal inde-pendent nations of America began its sessions at Washing-ton. This Pan-American Congress, as it was named, was. FLAG OF UNITED PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS; FILIBUSTERING. 385 held, at the invitation of the United States, for the purposeof recommending some plan of arbitration for the settlementof disputes between them [the states of both American Con-tinents], and of considering questions relating to the improve-ment of business intercourse, and means of direct communi-cation between said countries. The congress made sundryrecommendations, the most important of which is that therepublics of North, Central, and South America adopt arbi-tration as a principle of American international law for thesettlement of all differences, disputes, or controversies thatmay arise between them. The members of this congress,during the session, spent six weeks in visiting the principalcities of the United States.^ 414. Filibustering in Congress ; Quorum. (1890.) —Greatcomplaints had long been made of the dilatoriness of Con-gress in matters of legislation, and, from time
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