310 D14 1889 cop. 2 material is re- The person charging this its return to the library from sponsible for or before the which it was withdrawn on Latest Date stamped below. of books Theft, mutilation, and underlining are reasons for disciplinary action and may result in dismissal from the University. URBANA-CHAMPAIGN UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT RETURN TO MftteEMOTE STORAGE DEC 5 1991 fiUG 1 OCT 2 , O 1993 I MftR 08 APR 7 1993 RPRO 1991 r - o j <> 4 992 L161 0-1096 THE DAILY NEWS ALMANAC AND POLITICAL REGISTER FOR 1880. PRICE: 25 CENTS. ISSUED BY THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. The 1889 issue of the Daily News Almanac and Political Register is thefifth volume of the series, 'the first having been issued in 1885. With each succeeding year the work has increased in volume, completeness, and acc^^racy. No care, labor, or expense has been spared to make the present issue not only as accurate as possible but to produce a political manual th.it shall commend itself e pecially to the people of the West. Unusual space is this year devoted to the tariff, as a subject of constantly widening int. rest. In compiling the electoral re- turns the vote of the elector receiving the ia<-gest number of votes upon each ticket has been given. In many of the states certain electors have receivedfrom ten to fifty votes more thait the others on the tickei, and the rule has been adopted oj credit- ing each party with its largest vote. This wi I account for an occasional slight discrepancy in the returns, the county officer giving the vote for the head of the electoral ticket, while the Secretary of State may give the highest vote received by any elector, or vice versa. In Alabama and Virginia it has been impossible to give the Fisk vote by counties, owing to the failure of the Secreta- ries of State to so make their returns io the editor cfthe Daily News Almanac, although particularly requested to do so. No one notpersonallyfamiliar with the labor of compiling within the short space of sixty days the great mass of statistics in such a volume as this can appreciate the magnitude of the task. The present issue, like its predecessors, has been com- p led by George E. Plumbe, A. B., LL. B., of the Daily editorial whose abilities so a News staff, special for exacting work have never been morj conclusively shown than in the present volume. The Daily News Almanac is again submitted to the crit- icaljudgment of a discriminating public. Chicago, January 15, 1889. Chicago Daily !NVws Almanac 1889. ECIIPSES. There will be five eclipses three of the sun and two of the moon. I. A total eclipse of the sun, January 1. Visible to the larger portions of North America and the North Pacific Ocean. Being total along a track 80 miles wide, extending from the Aleu- tian Islands, and running centrally through Point Arena, California. Winnemuca, Nevada, Mountain Meadows, Idaho, and terminating about Lake U'innepeg. KIsewhere it will be par- tial. Invisible east of a line drawn through New York City and Ogdensburg. Occurring as follows: Slumlord. Boston New York Chicago Philadelphia... Washington . Charleston New Orleans.. St. Louis Cincinnati St. Paul Nashville Denver Salt Lake City. fHoon's Pfjascs. CIBCULATION CHICAGO DAILY NEWS, 2 CIRCULATION OF THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. 1 4 CIRCULATION OF THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. CIRCULATION OF THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. 5 6 CIRCULATION OF THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS. IstMOXTH. JANUARY. Jil DAYS. 3d MONTH. MARCH. 31 DAYS. 1 7th MONTH. JULY. 31 DAYS. 9th MOXTH. SEPTEMBER. 30 DAYS. iitu MONTH. NOVEMBER. so DATS. COMPARISON OF TARIFFS. Comparison of tariffs. Principal Schedules from 1789 Carefully Examined. No other subject in American politics has there have been eleven general tariffs and been so often and so continuously debated some forty minor changes under the general as the tariff. It is not surprising, therefore, heads, there have been no less than eight dis- that the rate of duties upon imports into the tinct systems of currency and banking, United States has been changed no less than which may be thus titled: The Uamiltonian fifty times since the establishment of the United Slates bank era, 1789 to 1811; the government. But omitting minor changes, Madisonian state bank era, 1811 to 1817; the of which there have been as many as three Clay, etc. , United States bank era, 1817 to In one year, the different tariffs adopted by 1836-7; the Jackson-Benton "hard-money" congress may be classed under eleven heads, experiment, 1837 to 1841; the general state viz.: bank system, 1841 to 1862, the greenback 1. The Hamiltonian or federalist tariff, the and national-bank system with suspension first adopted, signed by President Washing- of specie payments, 1862 to 1879, and the ton on July 4, 1789, and amended many era of "equalization" of coin and paper, times in the following twenty-three years from 1879 to the present. The student who and generally by higher rates. It was sus- attempts to study the currency alone finds pended for a time by the "embargo" of his scientific conclusions constantly set at President Jefferson, whlrh practically pro- naught by the facts the interfering factor hibited all trade with Europe. Under this is the tariff. If he attempts to deduce gen- tariff duties on luxuries were 15 per cent eral conclusions on the tariff from admitted and on food and necessaries of life 7^j per facts he is perpetually thwarted by revul- cent. sions due to the currency. If he attempts to 2. The war tariffs of 1812-15, nominally combine the two in one he is still often per- moderate, but mude prohibitory for a time plexed in forming correct conclusions. the British blockade. The letters "n. o. p. f." stand for "not by ' ' 3. The Lowndes-Calhoun tariff of 1816, otherwise provided for. ' avowedly protective and designed 'to pre- ACETATE OF LEAD, brown: 1842, 4c lb; 1864, 20c serve those industries called into existence lb.: 1875 5clb.; 1888, 4c lb.; white: 1842, 4clb.; by the exigencie: of the war and by the 1872, 10c*b.; 1888. 6clb. blockade." ACIDS, acetic, acetous, and pyrol Igneous, ex- 4. The first "Clay tariff," sometimes called ceeding specific gravity of 1 47-1000 per lb.: 1842, the "republican tariff" of 1824, raising the 20percent; 1864,80clb.; 1875,30clb.: 1888, lOc lb. rates of 1816 and adding many articles pro- ACORNS AND DANDELION ROOT, and all sub- in the duced newer states. This was the stitutes for coffee n. o. p. f. : 1870, free; 1875, 3c first tariff levying duties on wool. lb.; 1888, 2clb. 6. tariff of The 1828, the highest before ALUM: 1816, $1 and J2 cwt. ; 1824, 2^c lb.; 1842, the Its ' war, denounced by enemies as the IJ^c lb. ; 1846, 20 per cent; 1864, 6c lb.; 1888, 6c lb. tariff of abominations." AMMONIA : 1842, 20 per cent; 1846, 10 per cent; 6. The "modifying tariff" of 1832, designed 1857, 8 per cent; 1870 free. to "correct the inequalities" of that of 1828. ANIMALS, living: 1867, 20 per cent; 1882. tree. 7. The compromise tariff of 1833, designed ANTIMONY, as regulus or metal: 1808, free; to pacify the nulliflers of South Carolina and 1846, 20 per cent; 1864,10 percent; 1875, 10 per providing for taking off one-tentn of the cent; 1888, 10 per cent. higher duties each year, until all should reach ASBESTOS, manufactured: 1866, 25 per cent; a uniform rate of 20 per cent. 1883, 25 per cent. 8. The whig tariff of 1842, adopted on the BAGS OP JUTE for grain: 1864, 30 per cent;1888, plea that the treasury was empty and 35 ner cent. manufactures prostrated and designed to be BALSAM, medicinal, n. o. p. f.: 1816, 30 per both for revenue and protection. cent; 1832. 15 per cent; 1842, 25 per cent; 1846, 30 9. The Polk- Walker tariff of 1846, abolish- per cent; 1882, 30 per cent. all ing existing duties and providing for a BARK, Peruvian : 1846, 15 per cent; 1857, free; lower scale of duties on what was to 10 " alleged 1861, per cent; 1863, 20 per cent; 1870, free. be a "scientific plan. The rates averaged BARYTA, sulphate of : 1842, ^clb.; 1846, 20 per about 22 per cent, if luxuries be included. cent; 1864, Uc lb. ; 1888, 10 per cent. 10. The democratic-republican, or second BEADS: 1832, 15 per cent: 1842, 25 percent; compromise tariff of 1857, reducing the rates 1846, 30 per cent; 1864, 50 per cent; 1888, 50 per of the Polk-Walker tariff on the plea that cent. the revenue was excessive. BEANS AND PEASE: 1888, 10 per cent (split 11. The Morrill tariff of 1861, the first pease, 20 per cent). tariff providing for a general system of com- BEEF: 1824, Ic lb.; 1846, 20 per cent; 1864, Ic pound and differential duties, specific and lb.; 1888, 2clb. ad valorem, and making differences between BEESWAX: 1842, 15 per cent; 1846, 20 per cent; goods imported from different parts of the 1888, 20 per cent. world. This tariff was frequently raised BELTS, endless, for paper or printing ma- during the war. revised In 1866, 1867, 1869, chines: 1875, 20clb. and 35 per cent; 1888,; 20c and 1870, reduced K) per cent in 1872, raised lb. and 30 per cent. to the old rates in 1875, and slightly reduced BICARBONATE OF SODA: 1864, l^c lb. ; 1888, in 1883, the result being the present tariff.