History of the United States Volume Iv Part 3

And a.s.sa.s.sination.

The Guiteau Trial.

Civil Service Reform.

Under Grant.

Under Hayes.

Need of it.

Credit Mobilier Scandal.

The Pendleton Act Pa.s.sed.

Its Nature and Operation.

Recovery of Power by the Democracy.

Election of Cleveland.

The Civil Service.

Presidential Succession Act of 1886.

Its Necessity.

And Provisions.

CHAPTER II. THE TREATY OF WAs.h.i.+NGTON. 237

A s.h.i.+ning Instance of Peaceful International Methods.

Earlier Negotiations.

"ALABAMA CLAIMS" Insisted on.

A Joint Commission.

Its Personnel.

A Treaty Drafted and Ratified.

Its Provisions.

Northwest Boundary Question.

Minor Claims.

The Alabama Claims.

Geneva Tribunal.

Personnel.

No Pay for Indirect Losses.

Importance of the Case.

The Three Rules of the Was.h.i.+ngton Treaty.

Position of Great Britain Relative to These.

Their Meaning.

An Advance in International Law.

The Other Cruisers.

The Award.

Charles Francis Adams.

The Money Paid.

Its History.

CHAPTER III. THE FISHERIES DISPUTE.

Fishery Clause of the Treaty of 1783.

Value of the Rights it Conveyed.

Effect of War of 1812.

Convention of 1818.

Its Fateful Provisions.

Troubles in Consequence.

The Reciprocity of 1854.

Repeal in 1865.

New Troubles.

Reciprocity by Treaty of Was.h.i.+ngton, from 1871.

Repealed in 1885.

Why Friction in 1886.

Strict Enforcement by Canada of Convention of 1818.

Severities.

Their Animus.

Pleas of the United States Government.

Threat of Retaliation.

Commission to Draft New Treaty.

Indecisive Result.

Northwestern Fisheries Question Settled.

CHAPTER IV. THE SOUTH.

The Results of Congressional Reconstruction.

Restoration of White Rule.

Ku-Klux-Klan.

Improvement.

Loyalty at the South.

Prosperity.

Cotton.

Manufacturing.

Iron.

Marble.

Southern Cities.

Country Parts.

State of Florida.

CHAPTER V. THE WEST.

New States and Territories.

Alaska.

Its Resources.

Both Sides of the Rockies Filling Up.

Pacific Railways.

Colorado.

California.

Great American Desert.

Tabular View of the West's Growth.

Western Cities.

Minnesota.

St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth.

Duluth and Chicago.