Joint Resolution Inviting the Republic of Cuba to Become a State of the American Union: Remarks of Hon. Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada, in the Senate ... November 23 and 25, 1903 (Classic Reprint)
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I agree with the Senator from Maine in much that he has said. I commend with him the good sense and the good judgment of the people constituting the Government of Cuba, but I contend that the good sense and the good judgment of this country will be demonstrated by presenting this invitation and that the good sense and good judgment of Cuba will be proved by accepting it.
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Sixth. That when the original Erdman Act was passed the Com missioner Of Labor was not connected with any department, but that the Bureau Of Labor was subsequently incorporated with the Depart ment of Commerce and Labor, and was, later on, transferred to the Department of Labor.
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Japanese Competition, Silver-standard Countries, Effect Of Competition On Our Agricultural And Manufacturing Industries, Remedy: Remarks, April 16 And May 7, 1896, Before The Committee On Ways And Means, Consisting Of Nelson Dingley, Jr., Chairman and Others 54th Congress, 1st Sess
Francis Griffith Newlands
Govt. Print. Off., 1896
Francis Griffith Newlands was an American politician. He served as representative and senator from Nevada.
Background
Francis Griffith Newlands was born on August 28, 1848 in Natchez, Mississippi, United States. He was the son of Scottish parents, James Birney and Jessie (Barland) Newlands. His father, a physician, went to Troy, New York, but soon removed to the S. He might have been content to remain there in the congenial society of the cotton-planters, but his wife, an accomplished musician, desired better opportunities for the education of her children, and so they went to Quincy, Illinois. When Francis was but three years old, the father died leaving his wife with four sons and a daughter. They were in reduced circumstances, for the income that professional skill had won easily had been liberally spent in living.
Education
The marriage of the mother to Eben Moore, a banker and mayor of Quincy, so lightened the family burden that Francis could go from the schools of Quincy and Payson to high school in Chicago and have private tutoring in Washington, D. C. , to prepare for Yale College. He entered at the age of sixteen with the class of 1867, in which he quickly gained distinction, but, even though friends wished to provide funds in order that he might stay, he decided to withdraw from college in the middle of his junior year.
Career
Newlands returned to Washington, obtained a position in the service of the government and gained admission to the bar in 1869.
As the death of his step-father threw more of the family responsibility upon him, he decided to begin his practice of law in a newer community. He, therefore, accepted a loan from a classmate, James Allen, and went to San Francisco in 1870. At first he was dependent upon the court for his cases; but his ability quickly attracted the attention of persons prominent in business; and he turned from criminal to corporation law. By 1873 he had become well established.
Newlands gave himself over intensively to business and politics for the next six years. He became trustee of the Sharon estate in 1885 and continued in that capacity through difficult litigation.
The Civil War and the reconstruction of the South had deeply affected him, and he had gone to California with inclinations toward the Democratic party. Before an infuriated audience in the Democratic state convention of June 1884, he indorsed for president Stephen J. Field of the United States Supreme Court, who had aroused bitter feeling by his decisions concerning the rights of those who had supported the Confederacy, of the railroads, and, particularly, of the Chinese in California. Newlands himself was actually in danger of violence; but his self-possession and his determination won a hearing, and he gained recognition as a man of political promise. The fulfilment of his political ambitions came soon after his removal to Nevada, in the winter of 1888. Beyond his hope for the future of that state and personal concerns there in connection with the Sharon properties, he saw the possibility of a national program. To him the silver issue involved not only the interest of Nevada's mines but the advancement of all those productive areas where men needed to be able to borrow money easily. He thought it a matter of justice that the quantity of money should be increased to aid those who, under previous conditions of artificially inflated prices, had incurred financial obligations in endeavoring to develop the country. Definitely turned from the law to politics, therefore, he proceeded from his work for the National Silver Committee in Washington to seek a place in Congress as the representative of Nevada.
In 1892 as the candidate of the Silver party, with the indorsement of the Republican organization in the state, he won election to the House of Representatives and was reelected, but, when the national Democratic party took over the cause of silver in 1896, he returned to the party of his youth. He became a member of the Senate in 1903.
The reclamation act in 1902, the act in 1913 for mediation and conciliation of labor disputes, the law of 1914 establishing the federal trade commission, his successive proposals for a waterways commission finally enacted in the river and harbor legislation of 1917, his support of the movement for a federal bureau of fine arts, and his persistent demand that the problem of the tariff should be placed in charge of a board of experts, all bore witness to his conception of democratic government by scientific services and administrative boards with delegated authority from Congress.
His plan for national incorporation of the railroads, long opposed, came finally to impressive indorsement in its practical acceptance by railroad executives.
His years of activity in the important committee of the Senate on interstate commerce culminated during the Wilson administration in the chairmanship of the commission of inquiry which sat in 1916-17 to make an entire reappraisal of the problems of transportation. In the midst of this undertaking, as President Wilson was about to take control of the railroads in the war with Germany, Newlands died.
In framing the transportation act of 1920, however, fellow members of the commission drew heavily upon the fund of knowledge that had been gathered under his guidance.
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Politics
In the House of Representatives Newlands was an active member of the committee on foreign relations, but he was far more interested in his work on the committee on ways and means and in domestic problems.
He was among the ablest critics of Republican financial policy and of the program of Nelson W. Aldrich for reorganizing the banking system.
Personality
Kindliness in debate, a serene persistence in introducing defeated measures again and again, skill in applying theory to detail, and astuteness in business undertakings marked his public life; intimate friends remembered his appreciation of the beautiful, his considerateness for men of all kinds and classes, and his joyous love of children
Connections
On November 19, 1874, he married the daughter of William Sharon, Clara Adelaide Sharon, who bore him three daughters and died in February 1882, on the day following the birth and death of their son.
On September 4, 1888 he married Edith McAllister, the daughter of Hall McAllister. Both their sons died in infancy.