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Sep 7, 2026
speaker_11NARRATOR
The following summary covers the main features of the work.
speaker_11NARRATOR
The concession for the canal was granted by Nicaragua to the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, incorporated under Act of Congress, February 20, 1889, which Company reports annually to the Secretary of the Interior.
speaker_11NARRATOR
Statements relative to work done are drawn from its report of December 3, 1892.
speaker_11NARRATOR
This corporation contracted with the Nicaragua Construction Company for the construction of the canal.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Another international conference having great possibilities for good has lately assembled and is now in session in this capital.
speaker_2NARRATOR
An invitation was extended by the government under the Act of Congress of July 9, 1888, to all maritime nations to send delegates to confer touching the revision and amendment of the rules and regulations governing vessels at sea and to adopt a uniform system of marine signals.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The response to this invitation has been very general and very cordial.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Delegates from 26 nations are present in the conference and they have entered upon their useful work with great zeal and with an evident appreciation of its importance.
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speaker_2NARRATOR
The advent of four new states, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington, into the Union under the Constitution in the same month, and the emission of their duly chosen representatives to our national Congress at the same session, is an event as unexampled as it is interesting.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The certification of the votes cast and of the constitutions adopted in each of the states was filed with me, as required by the Eighth Section of the Act of February 22, 1889, by the governors of said territories, respectively.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Having after a careful examination found that the several constitutions and governments were republican in form and not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States, that all the provisions of the Act of Congress had been complied with, and that a majority of the votes cast in each of said proposed states was in favor of the adoption of the Constitution submitted therein, I did so declare by a separate proclamation as to each, as to North Dakota and South Dakota on Saturday, November 2, as to Montana on Friday, November 8, and as to Washington on Monday, November 11.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Each of these states has within it resources the development of which will employ the energies of and yield a comfortable subsistence to a great population.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
The American Democrat, or Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America, J. Fenimore Cooper, Cooperstown, H. and E. Finney, 1838.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen thirty-eight by J. Fenimore Cooper in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of the State of New York.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
Introduction.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
This little work has been written in consequence of its authors having had many occasions to observe the manner in which principles that are of the last importance to the happiness of the community are getting to be confounded in the popular mind.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
H. and E. Finney, 1838.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1838 by J. Fenimore Cooper in the clerk's office of the Southern District of the State of New York.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
Introduction.
Robert H. CherneyNARRATOR
This little work has been written in consequence of its authors having had many occasions to observe the manner in which principles that are of the last importance to the happiness of the community are getting to be confounded in the popular mind.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
Nor is it decided whether Congress, under the commercial power, may or may not pass a law securing to all persons equal accommodations on lines of public conveyance between two or more states.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
These cases were all founded on the first and second sections of the Act of Congress, known as the Civil Rights Act, passed March 1, 1875, entitled An Act to Protect All Citizens in Their Civil and Legal Rights, 18 Stat.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
335.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
Two of the cases, those against Stanley and Nichols, were indictments for denying to persons of color the accommodations and privileges of an inn or hotel.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
The case of Robinson and wife against the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee to recover the penalty of $500 given by the second section of the act, and the gravamen was the refusal by the conductor of the railroad company to allow the wife to ride in the ladies' car, for the reason, as stated in one of the counts, that she was a person of African descent.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
The jury rendered a verdict for the defendants in this case upon the merits, under a charge of the court, to which a bill of exceptions was taken by the plaintiffs.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
The case was tried on the assumption by both parties of the validity of the act of Congress, and the principal point made by the exceptions was that the judge allowed evidence to go to the jury tending to show that the conductor had reason to suspect that the plaintiff, the wife, was an improper person because she was in company with a young man whom he supposed to be a white man, and on that account inferred that there was some improper connection between them.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
And the judge charged the jury, in substance, that if this was the conductor's bona fide reason for excluding the woman from the car, they might take it into consideration on the question of the liability of the company.
speaker_11NARRATOR
The following summary covers the main features of the work.
speaker_11NARRATOR
The concession for the canal was granted by Nicaragua to the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, incorporated under Act of Congress February 20, 1889, which company reports annually to the Secretary of the Interior.
speaker_11NARRATOR
Statements relative to work done are drawn from its report of December 3, 1892.
speaker_11NARRATOR
This corporation contracted with the Nicaragua Construction Company for the construction of the canal.
speaker_4NARRATOR
He believed, however, that the blacks, not being equal to the white race, should not be assimilated, and should they be free, they should by all means be colonized afar off.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Thinking that the western lands might be so used, he said in writing to James Monroe in 1801, A very great extent of country north of the Ohio has been laid off in townships, and is now at market, according to the provisions of the Act of Congress.
speaker_4NARRATOR
There is nothing, said he, which would restrain the state of Virginia, either in the purchase or the application of these lands.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Yet he raised the question as to whether the establishment of such a colony within our limits, and to become a part of the Union, would be desirable.
Bobby CapucciHOST
of holding courts.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The Legislative Council of the Territory, under the sanction of the Act of Congress of the 29th of January, 1827, have, at its latest session, directed the court to be holding in each of the organized counties of the peninsula, and given very ample jurisdiction to them, have required that all or a majority of the judges attend each term.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The consequence of this new organization is that the judges, collectively, have now to hold 15 courts annually instead of one, and to traverse, mostly on horseback, an immense country over roads not yet half formed, and some of which are exceedingly dangerous.
Bobby CapucciHOST
The principle of this system is progressive.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
Nor is it decided whether Congress, under the commercial power, may or may not pass a law securing to all persons equal accommodations on lines of public conveyance between two or more states.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
These cases were all founded on the first and second sections of the Act of Congress, known as the Civil Rights Act, passed March 1, 1875, entitled An Act to Protect All Citizens in Their Civil and Legal Rights, 18 Stat.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
335. two of the cases those against stanley and nichols were indictments for denying to persons of color the accommodations and privileges of an inn or hotel two of them those against ryan and singleton were one on information the other an indictment for denying to individuals the privileges and accommodations of a theater the information against Ryan being for refusing a colored person a seat in the dress circle of Maguire's Theater in San Francisco, and the indictment against Singleton was for denying to another person, whose color was not stated, the full enjoyment of the accommodations of the theater known as the Grand Opera House in New York.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
Said denial not being made for any reasons by law applicable to citizens of every race and color, and regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
The case of Robinson and wife against the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee to recover the penalty of $500 given by the second section of the act, and the gravamen was the refusal by the conductor of the railroad company to allow the wife to ride in the lady's car, for the reason, as stated in one of the counts, that she was a person of African descent.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
the jury rendered a verdict for the defendants in this case upon the merits, under a charge of the court, to which a bill of exceptions was taken by the plaintiffs.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
The case was tried on the assumption by both parties of the validity of the Act of Congress, and the principal point made by the exceptions was that the judge allowed evidence to go to the jury, tending to show that the conductor had reason to suspect that the plaintiff, the wife, was an improper person, because she was in company with the young man whom he supposed to be a white man.
Theoden HumphreyNARRATOR
and on that account inferred that there was some improper connection between them and the judge charged the jury in substance that if this was the conductor's bona fide reason for excluding the woman from the car they might take it into consideration on the question of the liability of the company The case was brought here by writ of error at the suit of the plaintiffs.
Matt DinesGUEST
So you start with the tariffs, like February.
Matt DinesGUEST
The week before, uh, Epic Fury commenced, uh, the Supreme Court on February twentieth issued that ruling six to three, uh, that, that, uh, overruled the administration's, uh, constitutionality or ability to collect tariffs under the IEEPA, right? Which was like it was a much more s-- uh, it was a much more of a straightforward tool within the administration's tariff policy toolkit on specific acts of Congress that have given them the constitutional, like vested power to, uh, im-- or what do you call it? Declare and collect these tariffs.
Matt DinesGUEST
Um, Supreme Court overruled on Feb twenty, "Hey, you can't do these I-IEEPA, not gonna stand." So we say, "Okay, all right." We do Epic Fury, all of that, you know, goes, goes on.
Matt DinesGUEST
Um, in June, President Trump signaled that, um, he wanted to strike a new trade, uh, deal or renegotiate terms, uh, with the USMCA.
Matt DinesGUEST
They feel something different about their poker hand.
Matt DinesGUEST
They like their, their positioning, uh, in this to ask for, ask for more, uh, out of the economic pie." All right.
Matt DinesGUEST
So th-that opens up the process now where, uh, we s-- the administration starts to use another package of, of, uh, tools, right? W-- Uh, standing, uh, acts of Congress that give it the, uh, legal power to apply tariffs on im-- product imports into its country.
Matt DinesGUEST
And that's where you get into the Section three thirty-eight, which I don't wanna, you know, dive too deep on details here, but it's, it's the power derives from the nineteen-thirties, uh, Tariff Act, which is a Hoover administration level tool, which is like that was the last, whatever, turning, right, where we're in between World War I and World War II.
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