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1906 · rif. 45681 — Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo; 508 pages; Original green library buckram red leather gilt-lettered label on the spine and the 1906 date of publication stamped in the center of the spine. There is a gilt-lettered stamping at the center of the front cover: "HON. CHARLES W. FULTON / CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS/ UNITED STATES SENATE." There is an oval rubber stamp on the title page: "Private Library of / Reed Paige Clark." The text is divided into three parts with three tabs of gilt-lettered brown leather glued to the fore-edges of sheets of pale blue stiff paper. The portions of the facing pages which touched any of these leather tabs is stained brown from contact with the acid which which the leather tabs were tanned. Otherwise an unmarked and well preserved copy. Senator Charles Fulton 1853-1918 served as a United States Senator from Oregon for a single term 1903-9. As stated on the front cover of this volume Fulton served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Claims from 1905-9 Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth Congresses. Fulton left the Senate in 1909 and was succeded as Chairman of the Claims Committee by Senator Henry E. Burnham of New Hampshire 1844-1917 -- served as U.S. Senator 1901-1913. The eventual owner of this copy Reed Paige Clark 1878-1958 was born in New Hampshire and attended secondary schools in that state. He came to Washington at the end of the nineteenth century and became a student in the Columbian College now George Washington University in 1895. He took an A.B. degree from the College and an LLB from the Columbian Law School in 1901. He joined the U.S. Senate staff in that year serving as private secretary to Senator Burnham of N.H. Clark also served as Clerk to the Senate Committees on Claims -- also Industrial Exhibitions Cuban Relatons Agriculture and Forestry. It is not clear whether Senator Burnham or outgoing Claims Committee Chairman Fulton presented this copy to Reed Paige Clark. Clark left the staff of the Senate in 1911 to accept a Commission as General Receiver of Customs for the Republic of Liberia. He had a full and varied career in the U.S. Customs and Diplomatic Services. He was briefly in charge of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna Austria when the Ambassador was recalled after the Anschluss in 1938. He retired in 1944. . 1906. Government Printing Office hardcover