Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1876, Vol. 16: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; ... Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical - Softcover

Excerpt from Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1876, Vol. 16: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry

The details of American affairs in these pages embrace the administration of the Federal Government; its finances and systems of revenue and taxation; the banking system; the currency, and public questions relating thereto; commerce, manufactures, and,the general state of the country, and the important subjects that agitate the public mind; the finances of the States, their debts and resources; their educational, charitable, and reformatory institutions; the various political conventions, national and State, assembled during the year, with their nominations and platforms; the results of elections; also, commercial and other conventions, and their. Proceedings; the important questions before Congress, such as counting the presidential vote, amnesty, various constitutional amendments, specie payments, etc., with the debates and decisions of. That body; important decisions of State and Federal courts; the proceedings of State Legislatures on the various local matters the extension of railroads, telegraphs, and all those great improvements of every kind involved in the rapid progress of the country.

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