New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-09-17

HON. EDWARD MCPHERSON, LII. D.,
Clerk ofthe United States House Representatives
Whose political works have always been eharac-
terized by such thoroughness 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, by whom
they are freely used and quoted as
UNDOUBTED AUTHORITY.
Mcpherson's HAND, Book for 1872, in variety
scope and interest of matter surpasses all political
guide books hitherto published. 1t is work of
about $40 pages, 8yo., double column handsomely
bound in durable cloth-size and shape very con-
venient to carry while campaigning. 1t will be of
uniform style with Mr.. McPhersons other political
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 all important public ques-
lions. 1t will cover the two years which have
ELAPSED since the issue of his Hand 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 Representatives in the Forty
first and Forty second Congresses.
The second and third annual messages, and the
special messages of President Grant, on San Do
mingO, Test-Oath Lawlessness in South Carolina,
and others, as well all his political prOclama-
tions and orders issued since 1870.
Full text of the enforcement acts of the Forty
first and FOrty.second Congresses, and the Eu-
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-
fectng tie tariff and taxation including the action
Votes on the several propositions of amnesty,
and full record of the bills, 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-frst and F0rty-sec0nd Congresses.
The amendments proposed and made to State
constitutions in Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan,
North Carolina, Nebraska Rhode Island, West Vir-
ginia 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
. 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
. Text of the bill to promote the establishment of
common school systems i'll the various States and
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 TINS movement, including the re-
cent action in the Legislatures of Iowa, Maine and
Massachusetts.
tabular statement giving the popular and
electoral vote of each State in 1853 together with
the aggregate popular vote for the two preceding
presidential elections the vote at State elections
in 1870, 1871 and 1872 the appOrtiOnmeGt of repre-
sentation of the several States in Congress, and
the vote in the electoral college by States and
lions under the census of 1860 and 1870 together
with the population of each State under the census
of 1860 and 1876 and its relative rank ia the family
of States.
Also tabular statement showing the re-
ceipts of the government from every source, for
each fiscal year from 1853 to 1872 classified under
the respective heads of customs, internal revenue
direct taxes, public lands and miscellaneous
Also, a tabuIaJed 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.
dans, miscellaneous, and the amount of interest
on the public debt annually paid i'll 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 int estng details connected with the same
giving an opportunity for full comparison and
an exhaustive examination of the sources of ex-
pendlture
The work will also contain the text of the de-
cisiOn of the United States supreme Court known
as the illegal tender decision of 1871.
An authentic copy Of the treaty of Washington
and the JOhnson-CiarendOn treaty will be found in
its richly stored pages.
Also, the political platforms of 1871 and I872-fn-
GLIDING the full text of those of the various
national conventions and the proceedings thereof
and the main features of the Republican and Demo-
cratic platformsin 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 table of revenue reductions.
giving the official estimates of the annual Teduc-
ton in 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 Ct i!a cSii
suS of 1870
Also, an accurate talulated exhibit of the total
quantity Of public lands in this country-with the
number of acres sold, entered for homestead
granted for military services, agricultural col
leges, railroads, canals, wagon roads, companies
individuals, corporations, States and Territories,
asylums, Indians for reservations, private land
claimants, etc; and the amount in each of the
States and Territories remaining ursod 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
roadCompanies are likely to receive.
Also the text of the Texas Pacific and Bayfield,
and st. Crox railroad acts, considered in the Forty
first and Fortysecond Congresses, with the Varions
votes thereon.
Also the yea and nay votes upon all the political
resolutions-such as on the right Of secession, am.
nesty, the restoration of the Arlington estate to
the Lees and others-n the last session of the For.
ty-frst and second sessions OF the Forty. second
Congress.
IL addition to the above, will be found large
variety of miscellaneous matter not necessary to
particular ize-tho whole forming volume ALSO
Iutely
INDISPENSABLE TO THE POLITICIAN OF EVERY
PARTY
Who desires to be thoroughly informed upon all
the issues of the day-so III ly and sy Systematically
indexed that he can almost instantly turn to aay
one of them.
Price So so,
Post paid to any part of the country
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