MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832 )

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MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832 ) , American legislator, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, on the 3oth of March 1832. He went to

Texas

TEXAS

in 1839, studied law, and was admitted to the bar by a

special

SPECIAL

act of the legislature before he was twenty-one. He entered the Confederate army in 1861, took part as a private in the battle of Wilson's Creek, and as colonel commanded the Tenth

Texas

TEXAS

Infantry at Arkansas Post, Chickamauga (where he commanded a brigade during part of the battle), Missionary

Ridge

and Atlanta. He served in the national

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives as a Democrat from 1873 to 1892 and in the Senate from 1892 to 1899. He made the tariff his

special

SPECIAL

study, and was long recognized as the leading authority in Congress. As chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives in 18871889 during President Cleveland's first administration, he led the fight for reform. From his committee he reported in April 1888 the " Mills Bill," which provided for a reduction of the duties on sugar, earthen-

ware

WARE

, glassware, plate glass, woollen goods and other articles, the substitution of ad valorem for specific duties in many cases, and the placing of lumber (of certain kinds), hemp, wool, flax, borax, tin plates, salt and other articles on the free

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

. This bill was passed by the Democratic House on the 21st of July, and was then so amended by a Republican Senate as to be unacceptable to the house. The tariff thus became the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

issue in the presidential campaign of 1888. In 1891 Mills was a candidate in the
Democratic caucus for Speaker of the house, but was defeated by Charles F. Crisp (18451896) of Georgia. During the free silver controversy he adhered to the Cleveland section of the Democratic party, and failed to be re-elected when his term in the Senate expired in 1899. He then retired to Corsicana, Texas, where he engaged in business and the practice of law.

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