Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . art narrow but well-cultivated val-leys with numerous picturesque lakes;this being the English Lake Country,so much frequented by tourists. CUMMINS, ALBERT BAIRD, anAmerican public official; born in 1850 inPennsylvania. He was educated atWaynesburg College and from 1875 to1878 practiced law in Chicago. Someyears later he moved to Des Moines, la.,and in 1902 was elected Governor of theState. On the death of Senator Allison,Governor Cummins was selected to fillout the unexpir
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . art narrow but well-cultivated val-leys with numerous picturesque lakes;this being the English Lake Country,so much frequented by tourists. CUMMINS, ALBERT BAIRD, anAmerican public official; born in 1850 inPennsylvania. He was educated atWaynesburg College and from 1875 to1878 practiced law in Chicago. Someyears later he moved to Des Moines, la.,and in 1902 was elected Governor of theState. On the death of Senator Allison,Governor Cummins was selected to fillout the unexpired term and in 1909 waselected to the Senate for the term 1909-1915. Re-elected in the latter year, hewas again nominated and elected by theRepublicans of his State for the term1921-1927. Senator Cummins was muchin sympathy with the principles of theProgressive party of 1912, and while hedid not withdraw from the Republicanparty in that year as did many of hisfellow-progressives, he withheld his sup- CUMULATIVE VOTING 221 CUNEIFORM WRITING port from Taft. He is an acknowledgedauthority on the railroads and wrote the. ALBERT BAIRD CUMMINS main provisions of the Cummins-EschRailroad Act of 1920. CUMULATIVE VOTING, a system ofvoting at elections by which the voter isallowed to cast as many votes as thereare candidates for a given office, dis-tributing his votes or giving all of themto a single candidate. It is claimed thatthe proportional result is a more faithfulreflex of the will of a community thanthe majority method. CUNARD, SIR SAMUEL, founder ofan English steamship line; born in Hali-fax, Nova Scotia, where his father, aPhiladelphia merchant, had settled, , 1787. Becoming early a successfulmerchant and shipowner, he went toEngland in 1838, joined with GeorgeBurns, Glasgow, and David Mlver, Liver-pool, in founding (1839) the British andNorth American Royal Mail SteamPacket Company, and obtained a contractfrom the British Government for themail service between Liverpool
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