Sherman Act
an act of the United States Congress, approved July 14, 1890. It was the culmination of a long disagreement between the two Houses over a financial policy, neither side being disposed to yield. This bill was supported by Senator Sherman and others as a compromise measure. It instructed the Secretary of the Treasury to buy silver bullion to the amount of 4,500,000 ounces a month, and to issue Treasury notes in payment. Though the bill was approved , the financial policy continued to be a disturbing question and arguments favoring a repeal were presented at almost every opportunity. The business dep depression of the summer of 1893 was believed to be a consequence of the bill, and President Cleveland summoned Congress to convene in special session, Aug. 7. A bill to repeal the silver-purchasing proviso of the Sherman Act passed the House Aug. 28. In the Senate, the Voorhees bill was presented as a substitute , its provisions being a repeal of the silver-purchasing clause, but affirming bimetallism as a National policy. After a protracted contest the Voorhees bill passed the Senate, Oct. 30. It was concurred in by the House Nov. 1, and the President approved it the same day.
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Sherrill
CHARLES HITCHCOCK, an American lawyer, born in Washington, D. C., in 1867. He was educated at Yale University and practiced law in New York, from 1891 to 1909. From 1909 to 1911 he was United States Minister to Argentina. He resumed practice of law in 1912. Besides taking an active part in politics, he was president of the Yale Law School Alumni ; chairman of the Committee on Foreig Foreign Relations of the National Chamber of Commerce; trustee of St. Luke's Hospital , Tokio, Japan; of the American College for Girls, Constantinople, Turkey; of New York University, as well as of a number of numerous societies and clubs. He originated a series of international interuniversity track meets in 1894. During the World War he served as adjutant-general , with the rank of brigadier-general, in charge of the United States draft . He published "Stained Glass Tours in France " (1908); "Stained Glass Tours in England" (1909); "Stained Glass Tours in Italy" (1913); "French Memories of Eighteenth Century America" (1915); " Modernizing the Monroe Doctrine" (1916 ); "Have We a Far- Eastern Policy?" (1920 ).
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Sherwood
. See Robin Hood
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Sherwood
GRANVILLE HUDSON, an American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, born in Elgin, Ill., in 1878. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; Trinity College , Hartford, Conn.; University of Chicago; and the Western Theological Seminary, from which latter institution he received the degree of D.D., in 1917. In 1903 he was made a deacon and priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. From 1903 to 1905 he served as rector of Christ Church, Streator, Ill.; from 1905 to 1917 as rector of Trinity Church, Rock Island, Ill.; and in April, 1917, became bishop of Springfield, Ill.
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Sherwood (ISAAC R an American public)
ISAAC R., an American public official, born at Stanford, N. Y., in 1835. He was educated at Antioch College, Ohio , and the Ohio Law College, Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the Civil War,antering the army as in the Civi private, and eventually rising to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. From 1869 to 1873 he was secretary of state of Ohio; from 1873 to 1875, he was a member of the 43rd Congress from the 6th Ohio District; and from 1878 to 1884 he was a probate judge . In 1907 he was re-elected from the 9th Ohio District, being re-elected regularly from that time on and serving in the 60th to the 66th (1907 to 1921). At various times, beginning with 1865 and up to 1898, he was successively editor of the Toledo, Ohio, "Commercial"; the Cleveland, Ohio, "Leader"; the Toledo, Ohio, "Journal"; and the Canton, Ohio, "News Democrat." While serving in Congress, he was the author of the Sherwood "Dollar-a-Day Bill" and the "Medal of Honor Bill." He was a member of the G. A. R., and of the Loyal Legion.
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Sherwood Forest
royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, celebrated for the exploits of Robin Hood and his followers.
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Sherzer
JANE, an American educator, born at Franklin, Ohio. She was educated at the universities of Jena, Zürich, Michigan, Paris, and Berlin, receiving the degree of A.M. and Ph.D. from the latter institution , in 1902. From 1882 to 1895 she was principal of the Franklin, Ohio, high school; from 1889 to 1891 instructor of English, and from 1892 to 1894, dean of Oxford College; from 1895 to 1899 , principal of the Acad emy for Young Women , Jacksonville, Ill .; from 1903 to 1904, professor of English philosophy and dean of women, Illinois College, Jacksonville , Ill.; and from 1905 to 1917, professor of English and president of Oxford (Ohio) College for Women. Besides contributing letters of travel and editorial articles to newspapers, she published "The Ile of Ladies" (1902).
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Shetland Pony
a very small variety of the horse, with flowing maner and tails, peculiar to Shetland. SHIBBOLETH (properly Shibboleth, Hebrew, "ear or corn," or "stream"), the test word used by the Gileadites under Jephthah after their victory over the Ephraimites, recorded in Judges xii. 6. The latter could not pronounce the sh, and, by saying sibboleth, betrayed themselves, and were slaughtered at the ford. All those Hebrew names in the Old Testament which commence with the sh have now, through the inability of the Septuagint to render this sound in Greek, become familiar to us, through the versions that flowed from it, as beginning with the is fishing. Cod, ling, tusk, saithe or coal simple s-e. g., Simon, Samaria, Solomon, Saul, etc. The word shibboleth is still used to mean a test of opinions and manners.
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Shiel
LOCH, a fresh-water lake in Scotland, on the boundary between Inverness-shire and Argyleshire. It is about 15 miles long, but extremely narrow. It discharges by the river Shiel, which flows 3 miles N. W. to the sea at Loch Moidart.
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Shields (JAMES an American military)
JAMES, an American military officer; born in Dungannon , Ireland, in 1810; came to the United States in 1826; became a lawyer ; served through the Mexican War, and was brevetted major-general for gallantry at Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec. He was elected to the United States Senate from Illinois in 1849, and from Minnesota in 1858. When the Civil War broke out, he volunteered and entered the Federal service. He commanded the division which defeated "Stonewall" Jackson near Winchester, March 23, 1862; was defeated in an engagement with the Confederates at Port Republic, June 9, 1862 ; and resigned his commission in 1863. He died in Ottumwa, Ia., June 1, 1879. Clinchdale,
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