See also:JUSTIN See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH See also:MORRILL (1810–1898)
, See also:American See also:political See also:leader and financier, was See also:born at See also:Strafford, See also:Vermont, on the 14th of See also:April 181o
.
He was a clerk in a See also:store at Strafford in 1825
1828, and at See also:Portland, See also:Maine, in 1828–1831, and was a See also:merchant and then a See also:farmer in his native See also:town in 1831-1855
.
He was elected to the See also:national See also:house of representatives as an See also:anti-See also:slavery Whig in 1854, soon afterwards joining the new Republican party, and served in the house from 1855 until 1867
.
From 1867 until his See also:death in See also:Washington on the 28th of See also:December 1898 he represented Vermont in the See also:Senate
.
In the house he was continuously a member of the ways and means See also:committee (of which he was chairman in 1865–1867), and in the Senate of the See also:finance committee (of which he was chairman in 1877–1879, 1881–1893 and 1893–1898)
.
Soon after entering See also:Congress he became the acknowledged leader of the protectionists, and at the See also:request of See also:John See also:Sherman, then chairman of the ways and means committee, he prepared a new See also:tariff See also:bill, which was introduced in the house in See also:March r86o
.
To this relatively conservative bill, which substituted in many instances ad valorem for specific duties, and was intended by its author to be a See also:revenue as well as a protective measure, were added many amendments which made the bill more strongly protectionist, and in some cases were vigorously opposed by See also:Morrill
.
The bill was finally passed by the Senate on the 20th of See also:February 1861, and was signed by See also:President See also:Buchanan on the 2nd of March following
.
Morrill is probably best known as the author of the See also:Land See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant See also:Act of 1862, which led to the development of the highly important See also:system of See also:state educational institutions, aided by the Federal See also:government
.
On the 14th of December 1857, Morrill introduced in the house a bill " donating public lands to the several states and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of See also:agriculture and the mechanic arts." This bill passed both houses, but was vetoed in February 1859 by President Buchanan on the ground that it would cause See also:friction between the states, that it would be uneconomical, that it might encourage fraudulent See also:speculation, that it would injure existing institutions, and that it was unconstitutional
.
A similar bill was introduced by Morrill on the 16th of December 1861, and five months after-wards was presented to the Senate by See also:Benjamin See also:Wade of See also:Ohio
.
The measure had a negative See also:report from committee in the house, and was strongly opposed in the Senate; but it passed both branches, and on the 2nd of See also:July 1862 was signed by President See also:Lincoln
.
This measure provided for the See also:foundation and See also:maintenance of colleges " where the leading See also:object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military See also:tactics [which had not been included in the See also:original bill], to See also:teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts
.
. . in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to promote the liberal and See also:practical See also:education of the See also:industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in See also:life." In 1890 Morrill introduced in the Senate the so-called " Second Morrill Act," under which $25,00o is given annually by the Federal government to each of the " land-grant " colleges
.
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