. 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. mpromise. It served to show, however, that the entirecountry had come to regard this class of legislation as vital. Theact went into operation as
. 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. mpromise. It served to show, however, that the entirecountry had come to regard this class of legislation as vital. Theact went into operation as to sugar and molasses on the 1stof June, 1883; as to its other provisions on the ist of July,1883. The Civil Service Reform Bill passed at this session. It wasintroduced in the Senate by Geo. H. Pendleton, Democrat, ofOhio, and authorized a commission to devise a plan of civil ser-vice and put it in operation. Though this bill was introducedby a Democrat and ably sustained by him, the Democrats wereits active opponents. Its final passage in both Houses was by ?^ The rapid growth of this class of appropriations after they began to receive thefavor of both parties appears thus; 1870, ^3,975,900; 1875, ^6,648,517; 1880,^8,976,500; 1881, ^11,451,000; 1882, ^18,743,875, the amount in vetoed the beginning of the government there has been expended in the respectiveStates for river and harbor improvements the total sum of ^^108,796, F. T. FRELINGHUYSEN. CHAS, J, FOLGER.
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