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...minister to Russia from 1880 to 1881. He established a law practice in international cases in Washington, representing foreign legations before commissions and arbitration boards. From 1883 to 1885 he was minister to Spain. In 1891 he was special plenipotentiary to negotiate reciprocity treaties with Brazil, Spain, Germany, and the British West Indies. In the year 1892 to 1893 he was Secretary of State under President Harrison. He acted as the United States agent in the Behring Sea Arbitration at Paris in 1893 and was a member of the Anglo-Canadian Commission in 1898. At the invitation of the Emperor...
...powers, and her interests have not been in danger. The gentleman has wisely overlooked in his argument any danger to our mainland. He has realized that there could be none. Venezuela is 2,000 miles from New Orleans. The Rio Grande of the South and the Sao Francisco of Brazil are twice as far from the United States, as are the rivers Elbe and Weiser of Germany. The interests of the United States in the Carribean Sea are safely protected, for we hold the preponderant positions of Cuba and Porto Rico. Therefore the gentleman's argument of danger...
During the convention, addresses will be given by Bishop Whitaker of Eastern Pennsylvania, Bishop Hare of South Dakota, Bishop Baldwin of Huron, Canada, and Bishop Hall of Vermont; also by the Rev. Floyd W. Tompkins, Dean Groton and Rev. William C. Brown of Brazil. The following papers will be read: "The Student Movement of the World," by Mr. J. R. Mott, General Secretary of the World's Student Christian Federation; "The Progress of the Kingdom in the Year 1900," by Mr. D. G. Owen, vice-president of the C. S. M. A.; 'Life work--the Student's Decision...
...December of the same year he was promoted to a similar post in Chili. This office he filled most acceptably until August, 1897. On retiring from the legation he was retained to go to Brazil on legal business for a New York life insurance company, and was also appointed arbitrator between the governments of France and Chili on the claim of Charles Frerant, a French citizen, against Chili. He returned to the United States in March last...
Latin salutatorian, Frederick William Loetscher, of Dubuque, lowa; English salutatorian, Albert Howe Lybyer, of Brazil, Ind.; valedictorian, Edward Strong Worcester, of Burlington, Vt.; the other commencement orators are William Arnot Mather, of New York city, John James Moment of Orono, Ontario, and John Moore Trout, of Bridgeton, Delaware...