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See also:MORRILL, See also:JUSTIN See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
SMITH (1810–1898) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader and financier, was See also:born at See also:Strafford, See also:Vermont, on the 14th of See also:April 181o. He was a clerk in a See also:store at Strafford in 1825
1828, and at See also:Portland, See also:Maine, in 1828–1831, and was a See also:merchant and then a See also:farmer in his native See also:town in 1831-1855. He was elected to the See also:national See also:house of representatives as an See also:anti-See also:slavery Whig in 1854, soon afterwards joining the new Republican party, and served in the house from 1855 until 1867. From 1867 until his See also:death in See also:Washington on the 28th of See also:December 1898 he represented Vermont in the See also:Senate. In the house he was continuously a member of the ways and means See also:committee (of which he was chairman in 1865–1867), and in the Senate of the See also:finance committee (of which he was chairman in 1877–1879, 1881–1893 and 1893–1898). Soon after entering See also:Congress he became the acknowledged leader of the protectionists, and at the See also:request of See also:John See also:Sherman, then chairman of the ways and means committee, he prepared a new See also:tariff See also:bill, which was introduced in the house in See also:March r86o. To this relatively conservative bill, which substituted in many instances ad valorem for specific duties, and was intended by its author to be a See also:revenue as well as a protective measure, were added many amendments which made the bill more strongly protectionist, and in some cases were vigorously opposed by Morrill. The bill was finally passed by the Senate on the 20th of See also:February 1861, and was signed by See also:President See also:Buchanan on the 2nd of March following. Morrill is probably best known as the author of the See also:Land See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant See also:Act of 1862, which led to the development of the highly important See also:system of See also:state educational institutions, aided by the Federal See also:government. On the 14th of December 1857, Morrill introduced in the house a bill " donating public lands to the several states and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of See also:agriculture and the mechanic arts." This bill passed both houses, but was vetoed in February 1859 by President Buchanan on the ground that it would cause See also:friction between the states, that it would be uneconomical, that it might encourage fraudulent See also:speculation, that it would injure existing institutions, and that it was unconstitutional. A similar bill was introduced by Morrill on the 16th of December 1861, and five months after-wards was presented to the Senate by See also:Benjamin See also:Wade of See also:Ohio. The measure had a negative See also:report from committee in the house, and was strongly opposed in the Senate; but it passed both branches, and on the 2nd of See also:July 1862 was signed by President See also:Lincoln. This measure provided for the See also:foundation and See also:maintenance of colleges " where the leading See also:object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military See also:tactics [which had not been included in the See also:original bill], to See also:teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts. . . in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to promote the liberal and See also:practical See also:education of the See also:industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in See also:life." In 1890 Morrill introduced in the Senate the so-called " Second Morrill Act," under which $25,00o is given annually by the Federal government to each of the " land-grant " colleges.
End of Article: MORRILL, JUSTIN SMITH (1810–1898)
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