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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...all documents, of whatever nature, drawn up in the execution of this contract, shall be registered without cost. Article LV. The Company binds itself to pay annually to the Government of New Granada three per cent, of the net profits of the enterprise, in the same proportion in which they are to be distributed in form of dividends to the shareholders, without taking into account, in the payment of the said three per cent., any deduction for the supposed interest of the capital of the Company, or for any sum which the shareholders may designate as a reserve or sinking fund. It is stipulated that for the receipt of this duty, the Government of New Granada shall look, with the shareholders of the enterprise, to the accounts produced and liquidated at the general meeting of the Company, which accounts the agent of the Republic may examine, and in respect to them he may make observations in the same manner as any shareholder; but without power of interfering in the general management of the Company. Besides what is stipulated in this article, it is also agreed that the payment of the said duty of three per cent, shall be made at Bogota, Panama or New York, as the Government of the Republic may direct. Article LVI. The Company selects New York as its domicile, and will maintain in Panama a representative with powers sufficient to act in its name in all cases where it may be necessary. Article LVI I. The present privilege cannot be granted or assigned to any foreign government, that is, to any government out of the New Granadian territory, under penalty of forfeiture of the privilege, by the mere fact of attempting or carrying into effect such grant or assignment; and, although it should at any time be attempted or carried into effect, it will be, and from this ti...
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Joseph Little Bristow was born on July 22, 1861 near Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Kentucky, the younger of two children and only son of William Bristow, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, and Savannah (Little) Bristow. His father's forebears had emigrated from Bristol, England, to Virginia in the 1680's; a later generation had moved to Kentucky. Joseph's mother died in 1868, and the boy went to live on the Kentucky farm of his paternal grandfather, also a Methodist minister.
Late in 1879, and after a year of farming Joseph Bristow entered Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas, from which he graduated in 1886.
At first Bristow joined his father (who had remarried) in Kansas in 1873, but then he returned to Kentucky in 1876. Bristow rejoined his father at Howard City, Kansas. In 1886 he was elected to the first of two terms (1886 - 90) as clerk of the district court of Douglas County, during which time he read law.
In 1890 he bought the first of a series of Kansas newspapers he was to own throughout his political career.
An ardent anti-Populist in a time of agrarian unrest, Bristow helped form the Kansas Republican League of 1892 and the Kansas Day Club, activities which caught the attention of the state G. O. P. leader, Cyrus Leland, Jr. He was defeated in his bid for a Congressional nomination in 1894, but served as secretary of the Republican state central committee and then as private secretary to Governor Edmund N. Morrill from 1895 to 1897.
A sound-money Republican, Bristow supported William McKinley in 1896 and was rewarded with the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, an influential position in the distribution of patronage.
A similar attempt in the United States, however, implicated several prominent Republican legislators, and President Theodore Roosevelt, under political pressure, forced Bristow to resign in January 1905. To make amends, Roosevelt appointed the Kansan special commissioner to the Panama Canal project to look into the management and policies of the Panama Railroad Company.
As an editor in the 1890's Bristow had shown progressive tendencies, and in 1906, when his faction in the splintered Kansas Republican party failed to support his Senatorial candidacy, he joined the antirailroad movement led by Walter R. Stubbs. Bristow and other progressives urged that Kansas adopt a direct Senatorial primary, a measure which finally passed in 1908. That year, in his second try for a Senate seat, Bristow's campaign was managed by William Allen White, editor of the Emporia Gazette. Bristow defeated his former ally Chester I. Long in the primary and was elected to the Senate by the state legislature in January 1909.
Later because of their close Senate relationship, Bristow initially supported La Follette for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912 and was among the last of the progressive Republicans to shift to Roosevelt. After the Republican split, he backed Roosevelt but refused to join the Progressive party, believing it would fail. This decision cost Bristow the support of Kansas Progressives when he ran for the Senate in 1914. The Progressives nominated a candidate of their own, Victor Murdock.
In the Republican primary, Bristow was narrowly defeated by Charles Curtis, who was elected to the Senate in November. Late in 1914 Governor Arthur Capper appointed Bristow to the Kansas Public Utilities Commission. He resigned in 1918 to attempt a Senate comeback, but was badly beaten in the primary by Capper, who was subsequently elected. After this defeat, Bristow moved to Virginia to develop and enlarge property he had purchased there.
Though he often spoke of returning to Kansas, he spent the remainder of his life at his estate, Ossian Hall, in Fairfax County near Annandale. He died there of a heart attack and was buried in the family plot at Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Kansas.
Joseph Little Bristow first achieved success in helping to form the Kansas Republican League of 1892 and the Kansas Day Club, activities which caught the attention of the state G. O. P. leader, Cyrus Leland, Jr. Then in 1909, he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, serving until 1915. Bristow's most important legislative contribution was his authorship of the resolution which, with some modification, became the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, providing for direct election of Senators. But several other progressive measures he introduced, including an amendment for woman suffrage. After that he served on the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department and Committee on Cuban Relations. During the American occupation of Cuba he succeeded in reducing corruption in the island's postal system. He also successfully served as chairman of the Kansas Utilities Commission (1915-18) engaging in agricultural pursuits on his estate. Another achievement came in 1903 when he became co-owner of the Salina Evening Journal, of which he was sole owner from 1907 to 1925.
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A sound-money Republican, Bristow supported William McKinley in 1896 and was rewarded with the office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, an influential position in the distribution of patronage.
In the Senate, Bristow allied himself with the Insurgents, led by Robert M. La Follette, in opposing much of President Taft's program. He worked against the original Mann-Elkins railroad regulation bill of 1910 because he feared the proposed commerce court would weaken the Interstate Commerce Commission. Like other Insurgents, he also opposed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
Bristow was a member of the Kansas Day Club.
Tall and ungainly, Bristow did not fit the prevailing image of Senatorial dignity. His voice was rasping and his English unpolished, but he was a commanding speaker of great earnestness and an uncompromising fighter on the floor.
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He based his arguments on fact and, according to one writer, "cared nothing for 'senatorial courtesy' or feelings".
Bristow is said to have played a part in provoking a sarcastic comment from Vice President Thomas R. Marshall. One day while Bristow was delivering a lengthy speech in the Senate on "what this country needs, " Marshall leaned forward and whispered loudly enough for most of the chamber to hear, "What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar. " The expression was immortalized with the retelling and has become a lasting part of American political folklore.
On November 12, 1879, at eighteen, he married Margaret Hester Hendrix of Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Of their five children--William H. , Bertha May, Joseph Quayle, Frank Baker, and Edwin McKinley--the first two died in infancy.
Methodist minister
1854–1932
1888–1935
unknown–1881
1884–1969
1885–1968
American attorney and politician, who served as the 31st Vice President of the United States
United States Representative and Senator from Kansas
