New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-23

HON, EDWARD MCPHERSON LII. D.,
Clerk the United States House ofRepresentatives,
Whose political works have always been charae-
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 AUTH GRITTY.
| McPberson's Hand Book for 1872 in variety
scope and interest of matter surpasses all political
| guide books hitherto published. 1t is a work of
about $40 pages, 8vo., 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 viii 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 Dues
tons. 1t will cover the two years which have
elapsed since the issue of his Handbook 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:
fist OF members of the Cabinet of President
sit 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
| ningo, Test-oath Lawlessness in South Carolina,
and others, as well as 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
| KIux act of the Forty.second Congress, with the
Full text Of the Thirteenth, fourteenth and if
teenth constitutional amendments, with votes in
". ptir,frf hair vol
Yea and nay votes in Congress on measures al
fectng 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 bills, in Senate and Bouse,
to provide for the further security of the equal
| The various propositions of amendment to the
constitution Of the United States, made in the
Forty first and FOrty-Eecond Congresses.
The amendments proposed and made to State
| constitutions III IlliEois, Louisiana, Michigan,
| North Carolina, Nebraska, Rhode Island, West vir.
The rules of tie 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 i'll Con
gress as to its meaning.
I Text Of the bill to promote the 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
| under the fourteenth amendment, with additional
facts respecting this movement including the re-
cent action in the Legislatures OF Iowa, Maine and
! Massachusetts,
7 4 tabular statement giving the popular and
electoral vote of each State IN 1868, together with
| the aggregate popular vote for the two preceding
presidential elections; Che vote at State elections
! in 1870 1871 and 1872 the apportionmer of repre-.
sentatiOn of the several States i'll Congress, and
the vote in the electoral college, by States aud
tons under the census OF l86G'and 1879, together
with the population of each State under the
of 1860 and 1876 and It's relative rank Ii the family
| of States.
] 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, tabulated exhibit of the expenditures of
ghe government during the same period, under the
| several heads of civil list, foreign intercourse,
| Navy Department, War Department, pensions, In
! diana, miscellaneous and the amount of interest
Gn the public debt annually paid in those years;
accompanied by detailed statement: taken from
official sources of the leading items for each wear
| gong 10 MAKE up the TOTALS lOr tne 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 tile
comparatively settled standard it now enjoys, and
other intet esting details connected with the same
| giving opportunity for full comparison and
an exhaustive examination Of the sources Of ex-
I penditure.
The work will also contain the text of the de-
eisi0n of the United States Supreme Court, known
I as the legal tender decision Of 1871.
An authentic copy of the treaty Of Washington
and the Johnson Clarendon treaty will be found in
Also, the political platforms of 1871 and I872-fn-
| Gliding the full text of those of the various
national conventions and the proceedings thereof,
ana the man features OF the republican and Demo-
cratic platforms in many OF the States including
| the Missouri Liberal Republican and the Mont
g0mery county, Chic, Democratic platform known
as the new departure"
The book also contains a tabular statement of
the public debt of the Gated States up to july Of
| each year, from 1887 to 1872 inclusive fooetIer
with the amount of debt due at the close of every
| administration since the formation Of the present
n fEI f.TT
giving the official estimates of the annual sreduc-
J ton in internal and customs revenues by legisla
ton since the act of 1855.
8 Also. a table showing the wealth, local debt ar;
! taxation in each State and Territory and another
| eSmollnG the comparative quantities and values
| OF agricultural lands, products, etc. in 1850 1860
and 1870, prepared from advance sheets Of the cen
| sus of 1870. ~
B Also. an accurate tabulated exhibit of the total
| quantity OF pablo 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 uns0ld and unaD-
| proprlated, together with estimate of the number
| OF acres called for BY all the railroad land grants
and estimate of the number of acres such rail.
road companies are likely to receive.
! Also the text of the Texas Pacific, and Bayfield,
| and St Crox railroad acts cOnsideredin the Forty
hrst and Forty second Congresses with the varons
| votes thereon.
Also the yea and nay votes upon all the poli+ica1
resolutl0ns-such as on the right of secession am
nesty, the restoration of the Arlington estate to
the Lees and others-in the last session of fine For
fy,iirst and second sessions of the Forty,second
Iii addition to the above, will be found a 1sroe
variety OF miscellaneous matter not necessary TO
Particulalize-the whole forming volume abso-
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! PARTY
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