He proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow the taxing of exports and later opposed issuing "irreemable paper currency.
He proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow the taxing of exports and later opposed issuing "irreemable paper currency." His name is applied to amendments in state constitutions that bar the use of government money at public schools, and his career was undone by rumors of his corruption at Little Rock & Fort Smith railway and by Reverend Burchard's dig at Catholics. This Secretary of State under Harrison and Garfield lost the votes of the Mugwumps to Grover Cleveland and thus couldn't quench "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion." For 10 points, name this Republican senator from Maine and leader of the Half-Breed faction who lost the 1884 election.
He proposed a constitutional amendment that would allow the taxing of exports and later opposed issuing "irreemable paper currency.
James Gillespie {Blaine}