President's message urges tariff reform and constitutional fidelity
National Affairs covers Congress opening, Cleveland's tariff critique, and calls for public reform. It details taxation, pensions, land policy, and public lands management, urging strict adherence to the Constitution, fair taxation, and elimination of private carveouts. Foreign affairs notes fisheries questions, Behring Sea, and immigration. Immigration reform, consular service reorganization, and centennial prep noted.
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Addressing agricultural progress and disease eradication
President Cleveland outlines successes in crop and livestock policy, noting eradication of pleuro-pneumonia in Western states, research on food adulteration, and sugar diffusion advances. He stresses cooperative law, federal funding, and responsible supervision of rural programs to benefit buyers, growers, and the public. December 3, 1835, Washington.
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Washington
Senate and House Meet as President's Message Read
Washington December 4 The Senate opened on time with a committee to visit the President and a half hour recess. On resuming the committee reported the President would communicate in writing and the Message was read before the Senate adjourned. The House weighed in with eighty eight members absent and a quorum reported later the President's message was read and the House adjourned.
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Congressman's Plan Sparks Washington Debate
In Washington on December 4, Colonel Oates of Alabama proposed disfranchising Southern blacks. Northern lawmakers denounce the move as a blow to Democratic strength, foreseeing reduced House representation and Electoral College power for the South. The plan, viewed as impractical and constitutionally doubtful, risks a political storm this winter.
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Oates
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Colonel Oates
Fearful Leong Wait Ends in County Marriage
The marriage of Joshua Shipe, 25, and Margaret Douglass, 35, was completed after years of family objections. Shipe’s maiden sister opposed the match and Douglass’s mother objected, with several engagements broken by relatives. Miss Shipe died recently at seventy. Douglass then withdrew objections, allowing the union to proceed.
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Is County
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Eeq
Mise
Margaret Douglass
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Shipe
Douglass
Eclipse of the Sun Draws Astronomers to January Event
San Francisco reports high interest in the total solar eclipse of January 1. Observers at Lick Observatory and fifteen other stations from Eastern observatories will photograph and study the event, expected to last about two minutes.
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Lick Observatory
Murder in Kentucky Shotgun Fatality Reported
In Franquin Kentucky on December 4 a man named David Crockett Middleton was shot through a window late last night and died instantly. The weapon used was a three inch shotgun loaded with buckshot. A suspect description mentions an axe and claw marks near the scene.
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David
Crockett
Middleton
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