Word: civility
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Secretaries and several others. They were buried from the White House. The second occasion was during the Civil War when an officer was shot hauling down a Confederate flag at Alexandria. The third occasion was in 1890 when the wife and daughter of Secretary of the Navy Tracy died, when their house burned to the ground...
...anything, if payment is required, for some years. British bankers and business men, in memoranda and letters to Premier MacDonald, have said that no money could be sent to Russia unless private debts (amounting to nearly $2,000,000,000) and property are fully recognized, and a permanent civil code drawn up and the courts made independent of the Government...
...conditions exist which justify the imposition of this additional burden upon the taxpayers of the nation. All our pensions were revised and many liberal increases made no longer ago than 1920. Every survivor of the Civil War draws $50 per month and those in need of regular aid and at tendance, which already included 41,000 of them, draw $72 per month. As others come to need this the Taw already gives it to them. The act also proposes to extend the limits of the war period from April 13, 1865, to Aug. 20, 1866, so that those who enlisted...
...proposes to add more than 25% to the cost of the pension rolls. It is estimated that it would bring the total pension bill of the country to a point higher than ever before reached, not-withstanding it is now nearly 60 years since the close of the Civil War. A generous nation increased its pensions to well over a quarter of a billion annually, and has already bestowed nearly $6,250,000,000 in pensions upon the survivors of that con- flict and their dependents...
Ever since the Civil War, various British investors have hopefully and stubbornly clung to $120,000,000 par value of the bonds of the Confederate Government. The bonds were originally floated abroad to build privateers for the Confederdate States, and to provide other means of carrying on the War of the Rebellion. Most of the bonds were held by members of the British aristocracy, who were sympathetically inclined to the Confederate cause...