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Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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term annually. Then each Territory is divided into threeJudicial districts, one for each Judge of the Supreme Court. Thejudge assigned to a district must hold court therein as often asthe laws prescribe, and he must reside in his district afterassignment. There is a United States Marshal and a DistrictAttorney in each Territory, and each court is entitled to aclerk and minor officers. The salary of Territorial judges is^3,000. All of the above is true of the Territories proper, but not ofthe Indian Country nor the District of Columbia. The government of the Indian Country is hardly describable.It is of course a dependency of the United States, but thedesign is that it shall be as independent as possible. The tribeshave been assigned land, and left to regulate their internal affairsaccording to their own laws and customs, of course with thehope that as they grow civiHzed they will become full-fledged * Dakota, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming need not send their laws to Congressfor approval.
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THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. 269 270 POLITICAL HISTORY. citizens, with institutions which will readily take the laws andcustoms of the nation. Crimes against the Indians by whites,and against whites by the Indians of this Territory, are takencognizance of by the United States Courts in some of theadjoining districts. The government would protect the IndianCountry against invasion, and the inhabitants thereof againstsuch tumult as they could not control, but the theory connectedwith this magnificent reservation is that the inhabitants shall belet alone to work out their social, political, industrial and moralproblems in their own way, or with such help as they choose toinvite. The District of Columbia is governed by a Commission ofthree persons appointed by the President and Senate, one ofwhom must be an officer of the Engineer Corps, above the rankof Captain. He receives no additional pay. The other two,appointed for three years, from civil life, receive each ;^5,ooo ayear. They have no p

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