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    1. History of Iowa
    2. the subtitles of Chapter 5 are below. You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. Under History of Iowa Vol 3 chapter 5 - Funny in their election there was big trouble in Florida then too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CHAPTER V The Fifteenth General Assembly - Contest Over Election of Speaker - Investigation of the Agricultural College - Its Management Vindicated - A Bill Passed Regulating Railroad Charges - The Burlington Railway Resists the Enforcement of the Law - Judge Dillon of the U. S. Circuit Court Sustains the Law - A Decision of Vast Importance - Political Conventions of 1875 - Kirkwood Again Nominated for Governor - The Republican Candidates Elected - Governor Kirkwood Chosen United States Senator - Temperance State Convention - Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee at Des Moines - Distinguished Generals in Attendance - General Grant's Famous Speech - Misrepresentation and Controversy Finally Settled - Political Conventions of 1876 - Result of the Presidential Election in Doubt - George W. McCrary of Iowa Frames a Bill which Settles the Controversy................................................... Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/

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