A history of the United States for schools . id not expect to do more,in the election of 1896, than to maintain an organizationwhich might be of service in the future. They obtainedno electoral votes. Bryan received 176, while McKin-ley received 271, and was elected. The Senate, afterthe new elections, contained 46 Republicans and 34Democrats, with 5 who called themselves Populists, 3Independents, and 2 Silver Men. The new House ofRepresentatives contained 202 Republicans and 130Democrats, with 21 Populists, i Fusionist, and 3 SilverMen. Thus the government of the United States wasnow once mor
A history of the United States for schools . id not expect to do more,in the election of 1896, than to maintain an organizationwhich might be of service in the future. They obtainedno electoral votes. Bryan received 176, while McKin-ley received 271, and was elected. The Senate, afterthe new elections, contained 46 Republicans and 34Democrats, with 5 who called themselves Populists, 3Independents, and 2 Silver Men. The new House ofRepresentatives contained 202 Republicans and 130Democrats, with 21 Populists, i Fusionist, and 3 SilverMen. Thus the government of the United States wasnow once more Republican in all three of its branches. ^diiiulf^s; ^Dminifiitratton, Republican. 176. Principal Events. The general effect of theelection of 1896 was to assure people that no immediateaction would be taken in the direction of a free and un-restricted coinage of silver. Down to the beginning of1898 there had been no legislation decisively assuring thestability of the circulating medium. Other business took 472 THE FEDERAL UNION. Ch. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. precedence. A new tariff bill was passed in 1897, com-monly known as the Dingley tariff, the general effect ofwhich was to increase the duties on imports. One of the chief causes of the hard times had been the extremely low price ofwheat. In 1894, the crop ofwheat all over the world wasenormous; more wheat wasraised than was needed, andWheat the price fell to aboutcrops. ^^ cents per farmers, therefore, whog^^m^^^^^^m^^ relied upon their sales ofU^^^^^^^^ ?? wheat for paying their debts and buying sundry necessa-ries of life, w^ere disappointedand distressed. But in 1897it happened that there was a deficient wheat crop inother countries, so that there sprang up a brisk foreigndemand for American wheat; and this circumstance didmuch to relieve the hard times. The boundary line between Venezuela and BritishGuiana had never been satisfactorily adjusted, and in1895 certain territorial claims of Great Britain werema
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