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etc., and no method of dealing with it being re- 

 garded as efficient unless those who condemn it 

 consent themselves to abstain totally from the 

 use of alcoholic drink for pleasure, all persons 

 in the denomination were exhorted to become 

 total abstainers and throw the solid influence of 

 the Church against the saloon. The proposed 

 publication of a ' Quarterly Review of Religion 

 and Theology" to succeed the present " Unita- s 

 nan Review " was approved. Memorial resolu- 

 tions were passed concerning Mr. Justice Sam- 

 uel P. Miller and the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin. 



Unitarian Sunday-School Society. The 

 annual meeting of the Unitarian Sunday-school 

 Society was held in Fitchburg, Mass., Oct. 28 and 

 29. The receipts for the year had been $13,785, 

 and the society held funds to the amount of $19,- 

 785. The society corresponds with Sunday-school 

 workers in the United States and foreign 

 lands; assists new and feeble Sunday-schools; 

 furnishes its publications to Sunday-schools, the- 

 ological schools, and other institutions, and is 

 publishing a series of Sunday-school texts, of 

 which several thousand copies have been distrib- 

 uted, and a Sundav-school paper. 



UNITED STATES. The Administration 

 and the Judiciary. By the death of William 

 Windom. on Jan. 29, 1891, the post of Secretary 

 of the Treasury was left vacant. On Feb. 7, Sec- 

 retary Noble held a conference, in Washington, 

 with a delegation of the Sioux Indians who had 

 surrendered. The decision of the President and 

 Secretary of War, sustaining Col. Forsyth's dis- 

 positions at the Wounded Knee engagement, 

 was announced on Feb. 12. On Feb. 21 the 

 President sent to the Senate the nomination of 

 ex-Governor Charles Foster, of Ohio, to be Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury, and that of Martin A. 

 Knapp, of New York, as Interstate Commerce 

 Commissioner. The nomination of Mr. Foster 

 was confirmed on Feb. 24 by a unanimous vote. 



The appointments of Senator Blair, of New 

 Hampshire.as minister plenipotentiary and envoy 

 extraordinary to China, of Truxton Beale, of 

 California, as minister to Persia, and of Martin 

 A. Knapp as Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sioner, were confirmed by the Senate on Feb. 27. 

 The Secretary of the Navy formally accepted 

 the cruisers "Philadelphia" and "San Francis- 

 co" on March 6. On March 7 the President 

 appointed James H. Beatty district judge for 

 Idaho. An order of Gen. Ordway disbanding 

 the colored militia of the District of Columbia 

 was rescinded by the President on March 14. 



On March 30 ex-Representative T. H. Carter, 

 of Montana, was appointed Commissioner of 

 the General Land Office. The free-sugar clause 

 of the new tariff act and the new immigration 

 law both went into effect on April 1. and the 

 international copyright law on July 1, when the 

 .President issued a proclamation declaring its 

 application to the countries that had fulfilled the 

 specified conditions, viz., Belgium, France, Great 

 Britain, and Switzerland. A decision of Judge 

 Ilanford, of the United States district court in 

 the State of Washington, was delivered on Aug. 

 19, in accordance with which Chinamen entering 

 the United States in violation of the exclusion 

 acts by way of Canada must be returned to Can- 

 ada, and not to China, as was the practice be- 

 fore. In the beginning of August Joel B. Er- 



hardt resigned the post of collector of the port 

 at New York on account of differences with the 

 officials at Washington regarding removals and 

 the details of administration. J. Sloat Fassett, 

 who was appointed to succeed him, resigned also 

 on Sept. 11, having received the Republican 

 nomination for Governor of New York on Sept. 

 9, and Francis Hendricks was appointed as his 

 successor on Sept. 16. On Sept. 9 ex-Judge 

 Thomas M. Cooley, of Michigan, retired on ac- 

 count of failing health from the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission, of which he had been chair- 

 man from the beginning. 



On Sept. 18, President Harrison issued a 

 proclamation declaring the lands ceded to the 

 Government by the Indians forming the eastern 

 part of Oklahoma to be open to settlement and 

 homestead pre-emption on Sept. 22, and on that 

 date about (50,000 persons entered the reserva- 

 tion. In October Charles J. Murphy went to 

 Berlin as a special agent of the Agricultural De- 

 partment for the purpose of calling the atten- 

 tion of the German Government to the food 

 value of Indian corn. On the retirement of Sec- 

 retary Red field Proctor, who was appointed by 

 Gov. Paige, of Vermont, to serve out the unex- 



CIIARLKB FOSTER was born near Tiffin. Ohio, April 12, 

 1828. He was taken as a child of five to this remote settle- 

 ment where the town of Fostoria now stands, was sent to 

 the Norwalk Academy to be educated, entered on a mercan- 

 tile career, and when he had become an active and wealthy 

 merchant he interested himself in party politics as a Repub- 

 lican, but sought no public office till 1^70, when he allowed 

 himself to be nominated as a candidate for Congress, and was 

 elected through his personal popularity, and three times re- 

 elected, although in his district the Democrats were in the 

 majority. He was appointed on the Committee of Ways and 

 Means, and in this position was instrumental in bringing 

 to liirht the Sanborn frauds and in securing the repeal of the 

 moiety law. As chairman of the visiting committee in New 

 Orleans to examine into electoral frauds in 1874 he drew up a 

 report denouncing the acts of both parties In 1879 he was 

 elected Governor of his State, and in 1SS1 was re-elected, 

 holding office till January, 1884. In his niessares to the Leg- 

 islature he recommended the regulation of liquor selling by 

 high license or local option or its entire prohibition. 



pired term in the United States Senate of G. F. 

 Edmunds, Stephen B. Elkins, of New York, was 

 appointed Secretary of War, and on Dec. 22 his 

 appointment was confirmed by the Senate. He 

 entered on the duties of the office on Dec. 24. 



