This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...voters were excluded, but not if they owned and paid taxes upon property assessed at a value of not less than three hundred dollars; nor if they were entitled to vote on January 1, 1867, or at any prior date; or were sons or grandsons of any person who enjoyed the franchise at that date.2 This latter section ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...voters were excluded, but not if they owned and paid taxes upon property assessed at a value of not less than three hundred dollars; nor if they were entitled to vote on January 1, 1867, or at any prior date; or were sons or grandsons of any person who enjoyed the franchise at that date.2 This latter section of the constitution was popularly known as the "grandfather" clause. Under these and other limitations the number of registered colored voters in Louisiana was reduced from one hundred and twenty-seven thousand in 1896, to fifty-three hundred in 1900. North Carolina adopted constitutional restrictions in 1900, Alabama and Mary-1 Appleton's Annual Cyclop. (1895), 705; Nation, LXI., 302 (October 31, 1895). 1 Haynes, in Pol. Sci. Quart., XIII., 504. - 122 HOUSE VOTE ON w MC KINLEY TARIFF BILL 189O JJIrmatlvedUI Keaallvt UK) Hot vot1ng (?/) (? rocanc/eAj.Veu. I'or A, l--ore 102 Laagltad Wat 97 land in 1901, and Virginia in the following year. Alabama added to other qualifications the requirement of good moral character.1 1 For summary of qualifications, see Hart, Realities of Negro Suffrage, in Am. Pol. Sci. Assoc., Proceedings (1905), 149-165; A. E. McKinley, in Pol. Sci. Quart., XVIII., 480. CHAPTER XI McKINLEY TARIFF AND BILLION-DOLLAR, CONGRESS (1889-1893) A soon as the Republican party was in possession of all branches of the government, it promptly began the work of framing a new tariff. The House committee on ways and means, of which William McKinley, of Ohio, was chairman, took over the Senate bill prepared in the previous session and used it as a basis. The avowed purpose of the majority was to perfect the system of protection. There was no secrecy in their methods; public hearings were held and special interests were...
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