Twenty-three Senators and 149 House members among those seen answered "no".
CROM BERGER, JOHANN— A German printer who as early as 1538 established a printing office in the City of Mexico.
CUSTER, GENERAL GEORGE A—Famous American Cavalry leader in the Civil War, and the hero of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Dakota, in which he and his command were destroyed by the Sioux Indians, June 25, 1876. Of German descent. Frederick Whittaker in "A Complete Life of General George Custer" (Sheldon & Co., New York, 1876), says: "George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio December 5, 1839. Emanuel H. Custer, father of the General, was born in Cryssoptown, Alleghany County, Md., December 10, 1806. The name of Custer was originally Küster, and the grandfather of Emanuel Custer came from Germany, but Emanuel's father was born m America. The grandfather was one of those same Hessian officers over whom the Colonists wasted so many curses in the Revolutionary war, and were yet so innocent of harm and such patient, faithful soldiers. After Bur- goyne's surrender in 1778, many of the paroled Hessians seized the opportunity to settle in the country they came to conquer, and amongst these the grandfather of Emanuel Custer, captivated by the bright eyes of a frontier damsel, captivated her in turn with his flaxen hair and sturdy Saxon figure, and settled down in Pennsylvania, afterward moving to Maryland. It is something romantic and pleasing, after all, that stubborn George Guelph, in striving to conquer the colonies, should have given tkem the ancestor of George Custer, who was to become one of their greatest glories."
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE—The first paper to print the Declaration of Independence in the United States was a German newspaper, the "Pennsylvania Staatsboten" of July 5, 1776. It is also claimed that the first newspaper in Pennsylvania was printed in the German language. Benjamin Franklin at one time complained that of the eight newspapers then existing in Pennsylvania two were German, two were half German and half English, and only two were printed in English.
DECLARATIONS OF WAR—There have been altogether, at this writing, twenty-three declarations of war or their equivalent, as folows : 1914:
July 28— Austria on Serbia. Aug. I — Germany on Russia. Aug. 3— Germany on France. Aug. 3— Germany on Belgium. Aug. 4— Great Britain on Germany. Aug. 5— Austria on Russia. Aug. 6— Serbia on Germany. Aug. 11— Montenegro on Austria. Aug. 11— Montenegro on Germany Aug. 11— France on Austria. Aug. 13— Great Britain on Austria. Aug. 23— Japan on Germany. Aug. 28— Austria on Belgium.
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