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Excerpt from Information Regarding Sale of Certain Land in the Philippines: April 14, 1910; Adverse Report (to Accompany H. Res; No; 575) MY dear mr. Olmsted: Pursuant to instructions of the Secretary of War, I beg to submit the documents and data referred to in House resolution 575. 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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Marlin Edgar Olmsted was born on May 21, 1847, Ulysses, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry Jason and Evalena Theresa (Cushing) Olmsted, was seventh in descent from Richard Olmsted who came to America with his uncle, James, in 1632 and eventually settled at Norwalk, Connecticut.
Marlin Edgar was educated in public schools of Ulysses and at Coudersport Academy.
Marlin Olmsted entered politics, and was elected auditor of the borough of Coudersport at the age of twenty-two. He had already been appointed assistant corporation clerk of the state in charge of corporation-tax collection. Continued in this position by Auditor-General Harrison Allen, he gave deep study to corporation taxation, and made valuable suggestions which were adopted in Pennsylvania law and practice. When a Democratic victory at the polls resulted in his removal from office in 1875, he turned at once to the study of law, reading in the office of a local judge. Admitted to the local bar on November 25, 1878, to the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, May 16, 1881, and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, November 12, 1884, he quickly found himself engaged in important practice. He was attorney for many corporations and his pleas resulted in some of the most important American decisions in corporation-tax law.
While thus engaged in extensive legal practice, Olmsted again entered politics, serving in the select council of Harrisburg. Elected to Congress in 1896 by a heavy majority, he was continuously returned until his voluntary retirement from public life in the elections of 1912. In Congress he rapidly rose to distinction. He was earnest in defense of the Republican party and its policies. Tariff protection and the gold standard, the dominant Republican measures, received his immediate and lasting support. Appointed at once on Committee on Elections No. 2, he rendered able service and is credited with having done much during the next decade to establish the committee as a judicial rather than a political tribunal. Placed, in his second term, on the Committee for the Revision of Laws, he was influential in framing and securing the adoption in 1900 of the governmental code of Alaska. By reason of his mastery of parliamentary procedure, he was often chairman of the Committee of the Whole and at times speaker pro tempore. After his death, it was stated in a eulogy in Congress that he was slated as the Republican successor of Speaker Cannon, a plan which was ruined by the Democratic control of the House after the congressional elections of 1910.
Late in his congressional career, Olmsted served on the important Committee on Appropriations, but his name is best known in connection with his work on the Committee on Insular Affairs, of which he became chairman in the Sixty-first Congress. Here he was actively connected with legislation for Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and other insular possessions of the United States. When in 1909 the Puerto Rican legislature adjourned without having made new governmental appropriations, Olmsted, in the face of strong opposition, secured, by an amendment of the Foraker Act of 1900, the passage of a bill extending to Puerto Rico legislation already adopted in regard to the Philippines and Hawaii, by which old appropriations should run until new appropriations should be made. Probably more significant was the civil government program for Puerto Rico which he presented in 1910, but which was held up in the Senate and put into operation in modified form only after his death. When he retired to private life in 1913, his health was badly shattered. A brief vacation did him little good and on July 19, 1913, he died suddenly in New York City, following an operation.
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Marlin Olmsted was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Republican party, the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1897–1913).
Olmsted was a man of distinguished appearance, clear analysis, and acute logic.
Marlin Olmsted married Gertrude (Howard) Olmsted, daughter of Maj. Conway R. Howard, of Richmond, Virginia, on Oct. 26, 1899. They had five children.
