CARLISLE.
CARLL.
at Cumberland university ; graduated at Beech
Grove college, Tennessee, A.B., 1876, and was
professor of mathematics in that institution,
1876-'78. He had charge of an academj- in Lincohi
county, Tenn., for a short time and then removed
to Texas, where he became principal of a private
normal school at Whitesboro. He occupied this
position for more than seven years, and in 1887
was elected superintendent of the Corsicana city
schools. He was elected in 1890 superintendent
of Fort Worth city schools and in 1891 was chosen
superintendent of public instruction for the state
of Texas, and successively re-elected by popular
vote to that position.
CARLISLE, John Griffin, statesman, was born in Campbell (now Kenton) county, Ky., Sept. 5, 1835. He was the son of a farmer, was educated at the common school and for a time employed himself with farm work and in teach- ing school at Covington. He was admitted to the
bar in March, 1858, and within two years he acqviired a large practice. During 1858- '61 he was a member of the state house of representa- tives. In 1864 he was nominated for presidential elector on the Democratic ticket but declined to run. He was elec- ted to the state sen- ate in 1867 and again in 1869. He served as a delegate-at-large from Kentucky to the national Democratic convention at New York, in July, 1868. In June, 1871, he resigned his seat in the state senate, and was elected lieu- tenant-governor of Kentucky, serving until 1875. In 1876 he was chosen alternate presidential elec- tor for the state and the same year was elected a representative to the 45th Congress, being re- elected to every succeeding Congress up to and in- cluding the 51st. He immediately acquired prominence as a legislator, and made a notable speech on revenue reform in which policy, as well as in the revival of American shipping, he was greatly interested. The Carlisle internal rev- enue bill, introduced in the house during the 46th Congress, made him the recognized leader of the Democratic party on the tariff question. He was elected speaker of the house of representatives upon the assembling of the 48th Congress. Dec. 3, 1883, over Samuel J. Randall, and served during the 48th. 49th and 50th congresses. He obtained the respect of the house by the impartial manner
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in which he performed his duties in the midst of
much confusion and opposition, and he became
an authority on parliamentary law. He was an
advocate of tariff for revenue, though in no sense
a free-trader, and he successfully headed the
several campaigns against the Republican party
on the issue of protection. He was elected to
the United States senate as a Democrat, to fill
the unexpired term of James B. Beck, deceased,
and took his seat May 26, 1890. He resigned his
seat in March. 1893, on liis appointment as secre-
tary of the treasury in President Cleveland's
cabinet, and entered upon the duties of liis office
March 7, 1893. In February. 1895, the depletion
of the gold reserve made it necessary for the
government to issue $62,300,000 worth of thirty-
four-year 4 per cent bonds, and through Mr. Car-
lisle an arrangement was made \Wth a syndicate
of New York bankers to take the whole loan at
104f . The bonds were soon after quoted on the
market at 118, which result greatly alarmed the
people as to the wisdom of the financial policy of
the administration, and when in 1896 it was
announced that there would be another issue of
bonds to supply a further necessity for gold, and
that Mr. Carlisle intended to again sell the bonds
to the New York syndicate, the public journals
look up the matter and demonstrated that the
people could be depended on to take all the issue
if they were permitted to do so. This led the
government to invite a popular subscription to
the loan, which resulted in estabHshing a much
higher market price and called from the same
syndicate a bid by which they bought the larger
part of the issue at 110.6877, a saving to the coun-
try of $20,000,000, principal, and accruing interest
for thirty years. Mr. Carhsle in this seeemingly
unbusiness-like transaction was severely criti-
cised and the majority of his party repudiated
his action. He retired from the cabinet in
March. 1897. and resumed the practice of his
profession in New York city.
CARLL, John Franklin, civil engineer, was born in Bushwick, Long Island, N. Y., May 7, 1828. He was educated at the Union Hall academy at Flushing, N. Y.. and in 1849 purchased an interest in the Newark Eagle, of which he was associate editor. In 1853 he abandoned journalism and be- came a civil engineer and land surveyor in Flush- ing. N. Y. He removed to Pleasantville. Pa., in 1864, and remained there ten years, engaged in the oil industry. Meanwhile he produced several valuable inventions for developing oil, including a static pressure sand pump, and an adjustable sleeve for piston rods. As a member of the Penn- sylvania geological survey he contributed several papers descriptive of petroleum districts to the annual reports of 1874-'85. known as I (1874) ; 1* (1877) ; P (1880) ; I* (1883), and P (1885).
