New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-29

HUN. EDH ahD MCfhEhoOtHt LIZ ~
Clerk ofthe United States House ofRepresentatives
Whose political works have always been charac-
terized by such thoroughness, accuracy and impair
TALLY 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 AUTR GRITTY.
McPherson's Hand Book for 1872, in variety
scope and interest of NATTER surpasses all political
guide books hitherto published 1t is work of
about 240 pages, 8vo., double column, handsomely
bound in durable clOth-size and shape very con-
veHient to carry while campaigning. 1t will be of
uniform style with Mr. McPherson's 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-
tons 1t viii cover the two years which have
ELAPSED since the issue of his Hand Book 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:
Rist of members OF the Cabinet of President
Grant.
ISt of Senators and representatives IN tle fOrUy-
first and Forty second Congresses.
The second and third annual messages, and the
special messages of President Grant On San Do
mingO Test-0ath, LaWlessLess IN South Carolina
and others, as well all his political proClama
lions and orders issued since 1870.
Full text of the enforcement acts of the Forty
first and FOrty.second Congresses, and the XII
Klux act of the Forty second Congress- with the
various votes thereon,
Full text of the thirteenth, fourteenth and tff
teenth constitutional amendments with votes in
House respecting their validity.
Yea and nay yotesin Congress on measures af
fecting the tariff and taxation including the action
on tea, coffee, salt, coal, etc.
Votes on the sevefal propositions of amnesty
and fill record of the bills in Senate and hOuse
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
F0rty-trst and Forty-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.
Attorney General HOar as 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 the establishment of
common school systems in the various States, and
votes.
ate and House upon the right of women to vote
under the fourteenth amendment with additional
IL,
cent action IN the Legislatures OF Iowa, Maine and
Massachusetts.
A 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 State elections
in 1870 1871 and 1872; the app0rtionment of repre-
sentati0n of the several States in Congress- and
the vote in the electoral college, by States and sec.
lions under the census of 1850 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.
Al aI,,,1a C+o ebO1- ~,
ceipts of the government from eyerys source for
each fiscal year from 1883 to 1872, classified under
the respective heads of customs, internal revenue
dIect taxes public lands and miscellaneous
sources.
Also, tabulated 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.
dams, 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 wear
going to make up the totals for the abOveoheads,
with table of gold fluctuations exhibiting the
changes in value of United States currency, 1rom
the period of its first issue until it reached the
comparatively settled standard it now eniOys and
other int estng details connected with the same
giving an opportunity for a full comparison and
an eN Exhaustive examination OF tie sources of eG-
penditurR.
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 the treaty of Washington
and the Johnson-Clarendon treaty will be found in
its richly stored pages.
Also, the political platforms of 1871 and 1872-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 platforms III many OF the States, including
the Missouri Liberal Republican and the Mont
gOmeTy county, ONO, Democratic PLATFORM known
as the new departure"
The book also contains a 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 reductions
giving the official estimates of the annual reduc-
ton in internal and customs revenues by legisla
ton since the act of 1856.
Also, a table showing the wealth, local debt and
taxation i'll 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
Also. an accurate tabulated exhibit of the total
quantity of public lands i'll 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 unsold and unap
prOpriated, together with estimate of the number
OF acres called for By all the railroad land grants
and an estimate of the humber Of such rail
road companies are likely to receive.
Also the text of the Texas Pacific, and Bayfield,
and St CTox railroad acts, considered in the Forty
first and Forty second Congresses, with the various
votes thereon.
Also the yea and nay votes upon all the political
TesolutiOns-such as GU the right of secession, am
nesty, the restoration of the Arlington estate to
the Lees and others-in the last session of the For
ty-frst and second sessions of the Forty
Congress.
III addition to the above, will be found a large
variety of miscellaneous matter not necessary to
particulaiize-the whole forming volume ab5o-
futely
INDISPENSABLE TO The POLITICIAN OF EVERY
PARTY
Who desires to be thoroughly informed upon all
the esues of the day-so fully and Systematically
indexed that he can almost instantly turn to any
one of thems
Price So so,
Post paid to any part of the country.
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