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Mr. Schenck submitted his amendment basing apportionment upon the number of male citizen of the United States who are voters, but it was rejected by an overwhelming vote, only twenty-nine of the entire House voting in the affirmative. The amendment, as reported from the committee, was then adopted, yeas 120, nays 46.
The siege of Groningen proceeded, and Parma ordered some forces under Martin Schenck to advance to its relief. On the other hand, the meagre states' forces under Sonoy, Hohenlo, Entes, and Count John of Nassau's young son, William Louis, had not yet made much impression upon the city.
Effects of William's Death on the History of his Country Firm Conduct of the United Provinces They reject the Overtures of the Prince of Parma He reduces the whole of Flanders Deplorable Situation of the Country Vigorous Measures of the Northern States Antwerp besieged Operations of the Siege Immense Exertions of the Besiegers The Infernal Machine Battle on the Dike of Couvestien Surrender of Antwerp Extravagant Joy of Philip II. The United Provinces solicit the Aid of France and England Elizabeth sends them a supply of Troops under the Earl of Leicester He returns to England Treachery of some English and Scotch Officers Prince Maurice commences his Career The Spanish Armada Justin of Nassau blocks up the Prince of Parma in the Flemish Ports Ruin of the Armada Philip's Mock Piety on hearing the News Leicester dies Exploits and Death of Martin Schenck Breda surprised The Duke of Parma leads his Army into France His famous Retreat His Death and Character.
Garfield arranged a little dinner at which, besides himself, I met General Schenck and Henry Winter Davis, all of them playing leading roles in the House of Representatives. We four were alone, and it was a rare opportunity for me to hear unrestrained discussion of everything in public affairs.
While he was in favor of a protective tariff, he was not particularly a high-tariff advocate; he, and the late General Logan who was then in the House, and I worked together on tariff matters, as against the high-tariff advocates, led by General Schenck. On one occasion we defeated a high-tariff proposition that General Schenck was advocating.
The provision was rejected through the influence of General Schenck, who had then returned recently from Europe, and with the opinion that the concession involved an impairment of national honor.
If further proof were needed of the Southern sympathy prevalent in Baltimore, such would be found in the measures of coercion and prevention employed by General Schenck, when Lee's army was thought dangerously near. A private letter dispatched to me in the height of the panic, more than confirmed the accounts in public prints of the stringency of the martial law.
"I do not wish, if I could, to make the want visible to other eyes than my own." "Well, Cornelia Schenck, how do you like her face?" "It is very pretty-featured." "Pretty-featured! Why she is called beautiful. She has a beautiful smile, Mr. Carleton?" "She has only one." "Only one! and how many smiles ought the same person to have?" cried Florence impatiently.
The French army is a mere shell. This reminded me that General Grant, on my own visit to him some weeks before, had foretold to me sundry difficulties of Lord Wolseley in Egypt just as they afterward occurred. At a dinner with Senator Morrill of Vermont I met General Schenck, formerly a leading member of Congress and minister to Brazil and to England.
There are rules and etiquette for poker, and one of the most distinguished of American diplomatists of a past generation, General Schenck, emulated the Marquis of Queensberry in boxing by writing a book on the national game, that has all the charm claimed for it.
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