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Kerr And The Speakership

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
October
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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The St. Louis correspondent of the Chicago Tribune telegraphs : " The Hou. Michael C. Kerr, of Indiana, has been putting in some very eftective work here during the past two days in the matter of puahinar his claims for the speakership of the next House of Bep:esentatives. He has been sojouming receiitly in Colorado, and made it convenient to' stop at St. Louis while en route for home, and tliere is no doubt of his liaving sueceeded in securiug pledges from all the Missouri Oongressmen to j vote for him for Speaker. Kerr and his friends say that every Democrat froin Indiana is pledged to him, and that the majority of Illinois members have also been secured. Among his Congression al brethren of Illinois the friends of Kerr assert that, with the votes he has pledged to him in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, and other Western States, coinbined with the big Eastern vote which he is certain to get, his election is already assured." His Excellency Iwakura Tomomie, when he visited Èngland a few years ago as Cliief of the Japanose Embassy, made a promise whicli lie has just fulfilled, by presenting to the library of the Iiidian office in London a set of the Chineno version of the Buddhist Seripturos. The work is a fair sized library in itself, in weight at loist, weighing about thrée and a half tons, and will require a room alone.

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Old News
Michigan Argus