Word: directed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF MAY 2, 1888.Resolved, That the minority of the House of Representatives was justified in preventing the passage of the Direct Tax Bill by filibustering...
...refunding of the direct tax is morally, legally, and constitutionally just: Nation, April 12, 1888, p. 289; Congr. Record...
...filibustering against the refund of the direct tax will furnish an example and excuse for filibustering against tariff revision, and would justify similar action on every measure before Congress: Boston Journal, April 5 and 7; Boston Globe, April...
Question: "Resolved, That the action of the minority of the House of Representatives, in preventing the passage of the bill for refunding the direct tax, was justifiable...
...unwilling to call upon Egypt for assistance. He advised the people to put their trust in "Javeh," who would deliver them from their danger. Actually, the Assyrian King met with some disaster which forced him to return home. It was then supposed that this was owing to the direct intervention of Jalweh. The prophets said that the Assyrian invasions were to punish the Jews for their idolatry, but the invaders themselves had no such idea. The transportation of the Jews to Babylon was not a punishment, but was part of the general plicy of the Assyrian Kings. Isaiah preached reformation...