Tariff Reform Conference in Chicago Presses Free Trade
A diverse group from seventeen states met at Central Music Hall to advocate tariff reform and denounce protection. They heard President Cleveland's letter, elected J Sterling Morton as permanent chairman, and debated resolutions promoting free trade and a tariff for revenue with strong speeches by Henry George, J Sterling Morton, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Central Music Hall
Cleveland
John 7. White
American ‘Ableform League
Assembly
E. Kurcitt Smith
Smith
League
Executive Mansion
Washington, D. C
John Z. White
American ‘Tariff Reform League
Dean Sr
American Tariff Reform League
Grover Cleveland
Catlin
Committee On Permanent Organization
J. Sterling Morton
Steppin
Morton
Unon
Charles W. Deering
Illinois
Horace White
New York
Henry A. Robinson
Michigan
Enoch Harpole
Kansas
E. W. Judd
Massachusetts
W. Williams
Indiana
Jesse Metcalf
Rhode Island
RK. B. Kirkland
Wisconsin
Simon B Buckner
Kentucky
K. G. Harger
Iowa
Rk. M. Wilson
Minnesota
James D. Hancock
Pennsylvania
J. Lawrence Dunham
Connecticut
Harbert Boggs
New Jersey
J. Q. Smith
Ohio
Aretas W.thomas
Texas
Walter J. Page
W. K. Thome
Ilinois
Charles K. Ladd
Scheimers
Canada
Ladd
Gov
Buckner
Washington
Mr. Sherman
John C. Calhoun
Mr. Shearman
Committee On
George A. Clark
United States
Committee of Nine
Vwlevo
Henry George
Brownlee
Bowker
Davis
Hancock
Bleike
Lehman
Hnally
Byron G. Stout
J. B. Jones
Wilson
Col. C
Cameron
Forrest
Iroquois Club
William Gleeson
Hugh Pentecost
Democratic Party
Harrison
Croasdale
Winslow
Wisconsin Tariff Reform League
Galloway
Boston
W. Lehmann
Des Moines
J. K. Boyesen
Clinton Rurbish
Darrow
Gen. Leib
Mr. Field
F. McDougal
Handforth
George
Prines
Trade Club of
Ingland
Codman
Cobden Club
J. 8. Burrows
Nebraska
Farmers’ National Alliance
J. H. Raymond
F Oster
Dudley
R. Rk. Bowker
Henry W. Lamb
United States Treasury
Stout
Hugh C. Pentecost
David A. Wells
Franklin Mc-Veagh
Byron Stour
EK. W. Judd
Samuel E. Morse
Eugene Wilson
Palmer House
Walter Newberry
James B. Raymond
Burritt
Robert D. McFadon
Chomen
G. Stout
Aretas W. Thomas
Mexico
Stuttering Joe
San Marco
Joe
Mr. Morton
Lewis Post
Democratic Ag
KR. R. Bowker
New York Party
Owen Lovejoy
Princeton
Ill
Andrew Carnegie
Atlantic
Pacific
Mississippi
Sierras
Oceans
Continents
Congress
Italy
A Plea for Rugs in the Home
The article argues rugs are preferable to carpets for health and cost. Rugs are easier to clean and maintain, while fixed carpets collect more dirt. It advocates weekly rug beating, notes parquet floors reduce cost, and claims cheap rugs wear better than cheap carpets.
Longevity in Brain Workers Across Ages and Minds
An essay noting that intense mental labor correlates with longer life. It lists poets like Rogers and Hugo, philosophers and scientists such as Chevreul and Fontenelle, and figures like Hobbes and Harvey, giving ages from mid eighties to a century or more to illustrate longevity linked to intellectual effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogers
Sophocles
Calderon
Juvenal
Anacreon
Voltaire
Metastasio
Euripides
Gathe
Klopstock
Wieland
Lamartine
Beranger
Victor Hugo
Kied
Dr. Heberden
Sir T. Watson
William Lawrence
Rover- Collard
William Harvey
Schelling
Cousin
Plato
Illinois lawmakers debate bills on taxes and rights
The Illinois Senate and House consider a wide range of measures including coroner fee hikes, a legal fence standard, drainage legislation, and a ban on Sunday baseball. Amendments set four year terms for pension commissioners, and a proposed constitutional amendment outlines voting eligibility and residency for 1848 and naturalization precedents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Commission of Claims
Oging
Pinero
Calhoun County
James M. Hiock
Illinois
House
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
General Assembly
State of
United States
Fuite
State Board of Agriculture
Agricultural Commission
Chicago
Clevee
Brokoski
Newell
Illinois River
Committee On
Leeper
Hamer
Gettysburg
Will You Send Up a Card in New York Exchange
A girl asks a Buffalo Bill cowboy if he will send up a card. He jokes about fashion and regaling himself, then proposes choosing a suit from a deck, asking which style is most genteel—he offers the whole deck for selection. The scene captures streetwise manners in a Western frontier social setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo Bill
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Variff
Illinois Law-Makers