MORRILL, JUSTIN S.
\mˈɒɹɪl], \mˈɒɹɪl], \m_ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_l]\
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born in 1810, represented Vermont in the U.S. Congress as a Republican from 1855 to 1867. He was many times Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. He is author of the famous Morrill Tariff of 1861 and is a strong advocate of protection. He has been a member of the U.S. Senate from 1867 to the present time (1894).
By John Franklin Jameson
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Hymenolepis
- A genus of small tapeworms birds and mammals. A genus of Cestoda or tapeworms. A cestode worm order Cyclophyllideae, family Hymenolepinidae, genus Hymenolepis. includes several genera, such as H. Diminuta, occasionally infesting children, and Nana, or the dwarf tapeworm of children. Flavopuncta. See Taenia flavopuncta, under tenia.