Teller, Henry M

born in 1830, was major-general of Colorado militia from 1862 to 1864. He represented Colorado in the U. S. Senate as a Republican from 1876 to 1882. From 1877 to 1878 he was chairman of the special committee on election frauds. He was Secretary of the Interior in Arthur’s Cabinet from 1882 to 1885. He was again elected to the U. S. Senate in 1885, 1891 and 1897. Ten-Forties, bonds bearing five per cent. interest, redeemable at any time after ten years from the date of i ue, and payable in full at the end of forty years, i ued by the U. S. Government in 1864. Ten-Hour Law. In the early years of manufactures the working day sometimes extended to thirteen or fourteen hours. After the pa age of the ten-hour law in England in 1847, the working cla es in this country demanded a similar law. In 1853 the manufacturing companies in Lowell, Lawrence and Fall River voluntarily reduced the working day to eleven hours. In 1874 Ma achusetts enacted a law prescribing a ten-hour day for all females and all males under eighteen years of age employed in textile factories. Similar laws have been pa ed elsewhere. 288