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Asher Crosby Hinds was born on February 6, 1863 in Benton, Maine, United States. His parents, Albert D. and Charlotte (Flagg) Hinds, died when he was still a boy.
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Excerpt from Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States, Vol. 2: Including References to Provisions of the Constitution, the Laws, and Decisions of the United States Senate Cases in the second session of the Forty-sixth Congress. Sections 936 - 948. Cases in the third session of the Forty-sixth Congress. Sections 949 - 954. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States, Vol. 1: Including References to Provisions of the Constitution, the Laws, and Decisions of the United States Senate The value of precedents in guiding the action of a legislative body has been demonstrated by the experience of the House of Representatives for too many years to justify any arguments in their favor now. We have no other means of building up parliamentary law, either in the Mother Country or here, said a great lawyer, who was also an experienced legislator,1 except by instances as they arise and treatment of them and disposition of the law and of the good reasons that should govern these considerations. And a great legislator, who had served a lifetime in the House of Representatives and the Senate 2 concluded that the great body of the rules of all parliamentary bodies are unwritten law; they spring up by precedent and custom; these precedents and customs are this day the chief law of both Houses of Congress. In the House of Representatives, as in other legislative bodies, the memories of the older Members, as they might be corroborated by the journals, have been the favorite and most readily accessible repository of the precedents; but as the generations of statesmen come and go much is lost, and many useful precedents cease to be available except as from time to time the voluminous pages of the journals may be searched hastily under the stress of some pressing question. It is manifestly desirable, on a floor where high interests and great passions strive daily, that the rules of action should be known definitely, not only by the older members, but by all. Not only will the Speaker be enabled to make his decisions with more confidence and less fear that he may be swayed by the interests of the moment, but the Members, understanding the rules of his action, will sustain with commendation what they might have criticised with asperity. Thus, good order and dignity will be preserved to the body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Asher Crosby Hinds was born on February 6, 1863 in Benton, Maine, United States. His parents, Albert D. and Charlotte (Flagg) Hinds, died when he was still a boy.
Hinds was educated in the common schools of Benton, attended Coburn Classical Institute for a year, and graduated at Colby College in 1883.
Soon after graduation Hinds went to Portland and joined the staff of the Portland Daily Advertiser, of which a kinsman, Hobart W. Richardson, was then editor. First he learned the printer's trade, then, upon being made a reporter, he was so successful that in 1885 he was invited to join the Portland Daily Press. He was actively engaged on this journal for a number of years and at the same time acquired an interest in its ownership.
His first acquaintance with legislative operations appears to have been gained soon after he joined the Press, when he covered a session of the Maine legislature and was said to have started an agitation for the removal of the capital to Portland which was defeated only by the intervention of James G. Blaine.
When Thomas B. Reed became speaker in the Fifty-first Congress in 1889 he appointed Hinds speaker's clerk, but the adverse results of the elections of 1890 and 1892 relegated him again to his editorial duties. When Reed again became speaker in 1895, Hinds was promoted to the post of clerk at the speaker's table and at the advice of the speaker, who desired to make the position one of dignity and importance, began the study of parliamentary law and procedure. The diligence and capacity which Hinds displayed in this work made him an invaluable assistant to Speakers Reed, Henderson, and Cannon, and he retained his post at the speaker's table from 1895 to 1911.
During his incumbency he was able to bring to completion his monumental work: Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States (1907-1908), published as House Document 355, 59 Congress, 2 Session. This study had had its modest beginnings in a scrapbook in which he posted the rulings of various speakers and other useful material for consultation and had been preceded in 1899 by the publication of a valuable manual on the rules and practices of the House. In its final form, containing five volumes of more than a thousand pages each, with a multitude of citations covering the entire history of the House, together with three additional volumes of index and digest, it constituted a work of unique importance.
His health had broken under the strain of labors on the Precedents and his career as a member of the House (1911-1917) was not conspicuous. It is also a matter of regret that failing strength had obliged him to abandon a projected biography of Speaker Reed which he would have been admirably qualified to write. His death took place in Washington on May 1, 1919.
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Hinds was a member of the Republican Party.
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"His great work happily combines minuteness of research with wideness of vision. Nothing seems to have escaped his eye, or to have blurred his appreciation of the historic value of the slightest incident. Congress should ever be proud that it possessed a teacher whose constructive work must always remain its richest heritage. " - the historian of the House.
On September 3, 1891, Hinds married Harriet Louise Estey of Roslindale, Massachussets.