New Orleans Republican., 1872-10-15

I
HON. EDWARD MCPHERSON, Ii. D.
| Clerk ftheUnited States House OfRepresentatives
| Whose political works have always been eharae.
| terized by such thoroughness, accuracy and jrna
tiality as to make them absolutely Indispensable
to American statesmen, politicians, lawyers, sfn
dents of history, Journalists and intelligent tbnIr
ers of all classes and ali political parties by whom,
they are freely used and quoted as
UNDoUBTED AUTR ORITY.
McPherson's Hand Book for 1872 in variety
scope and interest of matter surpasses all polticsl
| guide books hitherto published. It is a worE Of
| about $40 pages, 8vo, double column, handsomely
bound in durable clotl-size and shane very eo1
VeRient to carry while campaigning. 1t will be of
| uniform style with Mr. McPhersons other political
publications, and wilpform with them a continuous
series, illustrating by papers, votes and figures the
progress of political thought and action and tha
relations of parties to all important public anes
tions, 1t will cover the two years which have
elapsed since the issue of his Hand-Bo of Politics
for 1870, no manual having been issued by him in
1871.
Besides much other invaluable political data. the
following are embraced in its
CONTENTS:
List of members of the Cabinet of President
Grant
Lsit of Senators and dRepresentativesin the Forty.
first and Forty second Congresses.
The second and third annual messages, and the
special messages of President Grant, on San Do.
min9o. Test-oath, LawlessDess in South Carolna
and others, as well as all his political prOelama.
tions and orders issued since 1870.
Full text of the enforcement acts Of the Forty.
first and Forty second Congresses, and the XIII
Klux act of the Forty second Congress, with the
various votes thereon,
teenth constitutional amendments with votes in
House respecting their validity.
Yea and nay votes in Congress on measures af
fecting the tariff and taxation, including the action
on tea, coffee, salt, COAL etc.
Votes on the several propositions of amnesty
and full record of the bflls in Senate and House
to provide for the further security of the equal
rights of citizens.
constitution of the United States, made in the
Forty first and Forty-second Congresses.
The amendments proposed and made to State
constitutions i'll IlBois Louisiana, Michigan
North Carolina, Nebraska, Rhode Island, West Viz.
gina and Wisconsin.
The rules of the Civil Service Commission. and
the additional rules Of the Advisory Board together
with action of Congress and the President on this
Full text of the eight hour law, with opinion Of
Attorney General Hoar as to its effect order of
President Grant to carry it out and votes in Con,
gress as to its meaning.
9 Text of the bill to promote the establishment of
votes
The reports of Judiciary Committees in the Sen.
ate and House upon the right of women to vote
under the fourteenth amendment with additional
facts respecting this movement, including the re-
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Massachusetts
A tabular statement giving the popular and
electoral vote OF each State in 1863 together with
the aggregate popular vote for the two preceding
presidential elections; the vote at State elections
in 1870 1871 and 1872; the apportionment of repre-
sentation of the several States in Congress, and
the vote in the electoral college by States and sec.
tions under the census of 1860 and 1879, together
with the population of each State under the census
of 1860 and 1870 and its relative rank ia the family
of States.
Also tabular statement showing the re-
fer
each fiscal year from 1859 to 1872 classified under
the respective heads of customs internal revenue.
direct taxes, public lands and miscellaneous
sources.
Also, a tabulaJed exhibit of the expenditures of
the government during the same period, under the
several heads of civil list, foreign intercourse
Navy Department War Department., pensions In
dians, miscellaneous and the amount of interest
the public debt annually paid in those years;
accompanied by detailed statement, taken from
official sources, of the leading items for each year
going to make up the totals for the above heads,
with table of gold fluctuations exhibiting the
changes in value of United States currency, from
the period of its first issue until it reached the
comparatively settled standard it now enjoys and
other inte esting details connected with the same,
giving an opportunity for full comparison and
an exhaustive examination of the sources of ex-
penditure.
The work will also contain the text of the de- +
cision of the United States supreme Court known
as the legal tender decision of 1871.
An authentic copy of tho treaty of Washington
and the Johnson-C Clarendon treaty will be f0Rnd in
it's richly stored pages.
Also, the political platforms of 1871 and I872-in.
national conventions and the proceedings thereof
and the main features of the Republican and Demo.
cratic platforms in many of the States, including
the Missouri Liberal Republican and the Mont.
gomery county, Ohio, Democratic platform, known
as the new departure"
The book also contains tabular statement of
the public debt of the United States up to July OF
each year, from 1857 to 1872 inclusive, together
with the amount of debt due at the close of every
administration since the formation of the present
government, and a table of revenue reductions
giving the official estimates OF the annual Teduc.
TiOn Ill internal and customs revenues by leGisla.
ton since the act of 1866.
Also, table showing the wealth local debt and
taxation in each State and Territory and another
exhibiting the comparative quantities and values
of agricultural lands products, etc in 1850 1860
and 1870 prepared from advance sheets of the cen.
of 1870.
Also, an accurate tabulated exhibit of the total
quantity of public lands i'll this country-with the
number of sold, entered for homestead,
granted for military services, agricultural col
!eges, railroads, canals wagon roads, companies,
lnd1ylduals corporations, States and Territories
asylums, Indians for reservations private land
claimants, etc; and the amount in each of the
states ana Territories remaining unsold and unap-
proprlated, together with estimate of the number
OF acres called for by all the railroad land grants
and an estimate of the number of acres such rail.
road companies are likely to receive
Also the text Of the Texas Pacific. and Bayfield,
ana ST. CrOlx railroad acts sSdered in the Forty
hrst and Forty-second Congresses with the varions
votes thereon
Also the yea and nay votes upon all the political
resoiutl0ns-such as on the right of secession
nesty, the restoration of the Arlington estate to
the Lees, and others-n the last session of the For
ty-hrst and second sessions of the Forty.secOnd
Congress-
III addition to the above will be fornd a large
variety of miscellaneous matter net necessary TO
particular 1ze-tha whole forming volume abso-
INDISPENSABLE TO THE POLITICIAN OF EVERY
PARTY
Who desires to be thoroughly informed 11pon all
the issues of the day-so fn " and Systematically
lndexed that he can almost Instantly turn to any
one Of them.
Price So SO,
Post paid to any part of the country.
Copies for sale by JAMES A. GRESHAM, No. %
Camp street. se3