New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-04

Hun, Ebh ARD mCPHhRSOS, LII. d,
Clerk ofthe United States House ofRepresentatsve
Whose political works have always been charaC
terized by such thorou.hness, accuracy and impair
tiality as to make them absolutely Indispensable
to American statesmen, politicians, lawyers, stu
dents of history Journalists and intelligent think
ers of all classes and all political parties bWwhou
they are freely used and quoted as
UNDOUBTED AETE0RITT
McPherson's Hand Book for 1872 in variety
scope and interest of matter surpasses al potiea
guide books hitherto published. 1t is work o
about 240 pages, 8vo., double column, handsomel,
bound in durable cloth-size and shape very con
veaient to carry while campaigning. 1t will ba o
7 uniform style with Nj. McPhersons other politca
| publications, and will form with them continuous
series, illustrating by papers, votes and figures the
| progress of political thought and action and the
relations of parties to ali important public cues
| tons. It viii cover the two years which have
elapsed since the issue of his Hand Book of Potica
for 1870, no manual having beef issued by him in
1871.
Besides much other invaluable political data the
following are embraced in its
CONTENTS .-s.
List of members of the Cabinet of President
| Grant.
Lst of Senators and Representatives in the forty
| first and Forty second Congresses.
/ The second and third ann nal messages, and the
| special messages of President Grant. on San Do.
mingo. Test-oath Lawlessness in South Carolina,
and others, well all his political prociama-
| tons and orders issued since 1870.
| Full text OF the enforcement acts OF the Forty
nISt anu rory second congresses and tnt hu-
| hlux act OF the FOrty-seeond Congress, with the
various votes thereon,
Full text Of the thirteenth fourteenth and fit,
Z tenth constitutional amendments with votes in
| House respecting their validity.
Yea and nay votes in Congress on measures at
fecting the tariff and taxation, including the action
on tea coffee, salt, coal, etc
Votes on the several propositions of amnesty.
to provide for the further security of the equal
rights of citizens
The various propositions of amendment to the
constitution of the United States made in the
FOrty-hrst and Forty-second Congresses.
The amendments proposed and made to State
constitutions in IllIsOIsI Louisiana, Michigan,
North Carolina, Nebraska, Rhode Island, West yir.
g,nia 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
subject
Attorney General H0ar to its effect, order OF
President Grant to carry it out, and votes in Con
gresS as to its meaning.
Text of the bill to promote tile establishment of
common school systems in the various States, and
The reports of Judiciary Committees in the Sen.
ate and House upon the right of women to vote
facts respecting this movement, including the re-
cent action in the Legislatures of Iowa, Maine and
Massac husetts.
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
tons 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. 1
Also tabular statement showing the re-
ceipts Of the government from every source, for
each fiscal year from 1859 to 1872 classified under
the respective heads of customs internal revenue
direct taxes, public lands and miscellaneous
sources.
Also, tabuIared exhibit of the expenditures of
the government during the period, under the |
several heads of civil list, foreign intercourse,
dams miscellaneous, and the amount of interest |
on the public debt annually paid in those years;
accompanied by detailed statement, taken from |
official sources of the leading items for each wear
going to make up the totals for the above heads |
with table OF gold fluctuations exhibiting the |
changes N 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 a full comparison and |
an exhaustive examination of the sources of ex.
penditure.
The work will also contain the. text of the de-
eisi9n Of the United States supreme Court known |
as the legal tender decision of 1871.
An authentic copy of the treaty of WASHINGTON
ana the comprehension treaty will be found in
its richly stored pages.
~ n
Guiding the full text OF those of the various
national conventions and the prOCeedRQg thereof
ana the man features of the RepubiicaHand Demo-
craIiC Platforms IN many OF the States including
the Missouri Liberal Republican and the Mont
somery county, Ohio, Democratic platform, known
The book also contains tabular statement of
the public debt OF the United States up to July of
each year, from 1851 to 1872 inclusive together |
with the amount of debt due at the close of every
administration since the formation of the present |
government, and table of revenue rpdIictiOna
n tha al
Won IN internal and customs revenues by legisla-
tiOn since the act of 1866.
Also, a table showing the wealth local debit and
taxation III each State and Territory, aud another
exnloltng the comparative quantities and values
Of agricultural lands products, etc, in 1850 1860
ina IotU prepared 1fom advance sheets of the cen.
Also an accurate tabulated exhibit of the total
quantity OF public lands in this eountfy-wth the
number OF acres sold. entered for homestead
granted for military services, agricultural col.
ege5! railroads, canals, wagon roads companies
corporations, States and Territories
isyums, Indians for reservations private land
claimants, etc; and the amount in each of tbe /
states and Territories remaining uns6ld and man.
2Foprated, together with estimate of the number
d acres called 1or BY all the railroad land grants
ana al estimate OF the number of acres such rail.
road companies are likely to receive.
Also So the text Of the Texas Pacific, and Bayfield,
thd 3d. CToX railroad acts considered in the Forty
lrst and Forty Congresses with the various
7Otes thereon.
esolut0ns-such as on the right of secession am
lesty, the restoration OF the Arlington estate to
nc ices anu otileIS-ln the aSt session of the
y-tirst and second sessions of the Forty.second
congress. - rO0'H1
In addition to the above will be found large
'ar1ety of miscellaneous matter not necessary to |
'artlculalize-tho whole forming volume abso-
utely
TO THE POLITICIAN OF EVERY
PATTY
gho desires to be thoroughly informed upon all
ne issues OF the day-so fully and systematically
ndeNed that he can almost instantly turn to any
ne of them.
Price So 80,
Post paid to any part of the country
Copies for sale by JAMES A. GRESHAM, No. %
amp street sna