UN1TKI) STATKS OF AMERICA. 



to double its original cost; and returns in its 

 American, Chinese, un<l African work 12 AIIUT- 

 ii-.-ui mi>Monarics, 2(5 native itinerants, 154 ap- 

 pointments, 1,(57'J nifinlH-rs and seekers, and 

 property valued at $:{H,000. 



The statistical report of t'nion Biblical Semi- 

 nary represents it> properties, clear <>f all liabili- 

 ties ;i> amounting to $102,77:5, and shows a gain 

 of $.'54,;{!)7 in four years. 



II. I mi. ,| llretlircn ( linrcli ohl CoiMi 

 tut ion). The General Conference of the Con- 

 servative branch met, in Indiana in May, and 

 legislated concerning the ordain/at ion of the 

 hoards and benevolences of the Church. The 

 entire educational interests of the Church were 

 put under the care of a general Hoard of Educa- 

 tion, with power to locate and provide for the 

 management and support of such educational 

 institutions as the Church might noed. Bishops 

 Milton Wright, II. T. Barnaby, and Halleck 

 Floyd were re-elected bishops for the East, and 

 the Uev. William Dillon, D. D., was elected bishop 

 for the Pacific coast. 



UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a fed- 

 eral republic in North America. The Federal 

 Government has for its executive head a Presi- 

 dent, elected for four years by the majority vote of 

 electoral colleges, whose members, proportioned 

 among the States according to their representa- 

 tion, are elected directly by the people of each 

 State. The legislative power is vested in a Con- 

 gress of two Houses a Senate containing 2 rep- 

 resentatives from each State, elected by their 

 Legislatures, and a House of Representatives, 

 whose members are elected by districts in the 

 proportion, under the apportionment based on 

 the census of 1890, of 1 to 173,901 of population. 

 The powers of Congress and the Executive are 

 restricted to matters specified in the Federal 

 Constitution. 



The Administration. Grover Cleveland, 

 having been elected in November, 1892, to suc- 

 ceed President Harrison, was on March 4, 1893, 

 inaugurated President of the United States. In 

 his inaugural address the President urged the 

 necessity of maintaing a sound and stable cur- 

 rency, and pledged the Executive branch of the 

 Government to use all its power to uphold the 

 national credit and avert financial disaster. He 

 further pledged the Administration to use every 

 effort to carry out the behest of the people, who 

 demanded the reform of the tariff, and declared 

 that the necessity for revenue to support the 

 Government furnishes the only justification for 

 taxing the people. He condemned the disposi- 

 tion to expect from the operation of the Govern- 

 ment direct individual advantages, and declared 

 that paternalism should have no place in a 

 republican government. He also condemned 

 bounties and subsidies and reckless pension ex- 

 penditure. Adlai E. Stevenson, who had been 

 elected Vice-President, took the oath of office 

 and assumed the presidency of the Senate, in 

 succession to Levi P. Morton. The President 

 appointed the following Cabinet, which was con- 

 firmed by the Senate : Secretary of State, Walter 

 Q. Gresham, of Illinois ; Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury. .John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky; Secretary 

 of War, Daniel S. Lamont, of New York: At- 

 torney-General, Richard Olney, of Massachu- 

 setts ; Postmaster-General, Wilson S. Bissell, of 



VOL. xxxiii. 47 A 



New York ; Secretary of the Navy, Hilary A. 

 Herbert, of Alabama; Secretary of the Interior, 

 lloke Smith, of Georgia; Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, J. S. Morton, of Nebraska. The following 

 .HI- ill. principal important departmental ap- 

 pointments made l>y President Cleveland: Assist- 

 ant Secretary of State, Edwin F. I'lil, Michigan; 

 Third Assistant Secretary, Edward II. Strol.cl, 

 New York ; Assistant Secrciarics of the Treasury, 

 William Edmund Curtis, New York, Charles S. 

 llamlin, Massachusetts, and Scott Wike, Illi- 

 nois ; First Comptroller, Robert B. Bowler, Ohio; 

 Commissioner of Customs, William H. Pugh, 

 Ohio ; First Auditor* Ernest P. Baldwin, Mary- 

 land; Treasurer of the United States, Daniel N. 

 Morgan, Connecticut ; Register of the Treasury. 

 J. Fount Tillman, Tennessee ; Comptroller of the 

 Currency, James H. Eckels, Illinois; Commis- 

 sioner of Internal Revenue, Joseph S. Miller, 

 West Virginia; Commissioner 01 Navigation, 

 Eugene T. Chamberlain, New York; Solicitor 

 of Internal Revenue, Robert T. Howe, Ohio ; Di- 

 rector of the Mint, Robert E. Preston, District 

 of Columbia; Chief of the Bureau of Statist i<-. 

 Worthington C. Ford, New York; Chief of the 

 Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Claude M. 

 Johnson, Kentucky ; Supervising Architect, John 

 O'Rourke, New Jersey ; Solicitor of the Treas- 

 ury, Felix A. Reeve, Tennessee ; Assistant Sec- 

 retary of War, Joseph B. Doe, Wisconsin : As- 

 sistant Secretary of the Navy, William McAdoo, 

 Virginia; First Assistant Postmaster-General, 

 Frank H. Jones, Illinois ; Third Assistant Post- 

 master-General, Kerr Craige, North Carolina; 

 Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, Robert 

 A. Maxwell, New York ; Solicitor-General to 

 the Department of Justice, Laurence Maxwell, 

 Ohio : Assistant Attorneys-General, Holmes Con- 

 rad, Virginia, Joshua E. Dodge, Wisconsin, John 

 I. Hall, Georgia, Charles B. Howry, Mississippi,. 

 William A. Maury, District of Columbia, John 

 L. Thomas, Missouri, and Edward B. Whitney, 

 New York ; First Assistant Secretary of the In- 

 terior, William H. Sims, Mississippi ; Assistant 

 Secretary, John M. Reynolds, Pennsylvania ; 

 Commissioner of the General Land Office, Silas 

 W. Lamoreaux, Wisconsin ; Commissioner of 

 Pensions, Willam Lochren, Minnesota ; Commis- 

 sioner of Indian Affairs, Daniel M. Browning, 

 Illinois; Commissioner of Patents, John S. Sey- 

 mour, Connecticut ; Commissioner of Railroads, 

 Wade Hampton, South Carolina: Assistant Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, Charles W. Dabney, Jr., 

 of Tennessee; Superintendent of Immigration. 

 Herman Stump, Washington: Commissioner at 

 New York, Joseph II. Senner: Collector of Cus- 

 toms at the port of New York, James T. Kil- 

 breth. 



\VAI.TKK lirixriN (i 1:1 MI AM was born March 17, 

 1832, near Lanesville, Harrison 1'ounty. Inl., aiul i.s 

 of an old English family. His father, William 

 (irfsluiiii, who was sheriff of the county, was shot 

 while arresting a desperado, and his widowed mother 

 was left with five small children, of whom Walter 

 was next to the youngest, he being only two yean* 

 <>ld at the time. Mrs. (iresham was poor but very 

 ciieriretic, and she managed the farm and kept the 

 familv togfthcr. During his boyhood Walter f<>l- 

 lowed the plow by day and studied at night, gain- 

 ing his education through hard work and self-denial. 

 lit- went t<> the district school in the winter season, 

 and when lie was sixteen obtained a clerkship in the 



