Tradition has it that Zachariah Chandler asked him directly if ' he plan on signing it or no ?’ and Lincoln replied, ‘ it was put before him with too little time to be signed in that way .’ On July 4, 1864, he pocket-vetoed the bill by refusing to sign it.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.

When Lincoln vetoed the bill, the Radicals retaliated by refusing to seat representatives elected from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.

* 1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture.

* May 15 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the U. S. Bureau of Agriculture ( later renamed U. S. Department of Agriculture ).

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

After many false starts, Garfield, with the support of Lincoln, procured the passage of an aggressive conscription bill which excluded commutation.

President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill on June 30, 1864 granting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the State of California " for public use, resort and recreation ," the two tracts " shall be inalienable for all time ".

On April 16, 1862 Lincoln signed a bill into law outlawing slavery in Washington D. C. and freeing the estimated 3, 500 slaves in the city and on June 19, 1862 he signed legislation outlawing slavery in all U. S. territories.

After the Southern states seceded in 1861 and most of their representatives resigned from Congress, the Republican Congress passed the bill ; it was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.

The bill passed both houses of Congress on July 2, 1864, but was pocket vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect.

The Radical Republicans were outraged that Lincoln did not sign the bill.

* a variant of fin, a colloquial term for the U. S. five dollar bill bearing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln

" The motion was carried unanimously and the clerk, not adopting the frontier parlance of the Major, wrote " Lincoln " in the blank space of the bill.

After reconvening, Congress failed to pass a bill favored by Lincoln to sanction his suspensions, and several more district and circuit court rulings affirmed Taney's opinion.

In the United States the concept of preserving landscapes for the pleasure of the people was established on June 30, 1864, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the bill creating the Yosemite Grant.

They were approved while the bill for the direct line was still before Parliament, forming the present day Lincoln Branch and the Syston to Peterborough Line.

Opposition to the Great Northern bill had cost a fortune, a great deal of maintenance was overdue, and the Lincoln and Peterborough lines were still to be paid for.

On December 16, 1861, Justin Morrill ( VT ) introduced a bill into the U. S. House of Representatives, " to establish at least one college in each state upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil ..." President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act into effect in July of the following year.

The Missouri legislature hastily passed a bill appropriating $ 275, 000 ($ in modern dollars ) to convert an old beauty school in St. Louis into the new Lincoln University School of Law, in the hope that would satisfy the court.

In September 2009, Lincoln pledged to filibuster any legislation containing a Public health insurance option, such as the Affordable Health Care for America Act, the House of Representatives ' proposed health care reform bill.

Lincoln voted in favor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Senate bill which eventually became the Barack Obama administration's health care reform bill.

Fitzgerald had two major moments in the spotlight in the Senate, the first in 2000 when he filibustered a massive federal spending bill because it included funds for the Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield.

On their decisive battlefield Lincoln did not distinguish between them when he paid tribute to the `` brave men, living and dead, who fought here ''.

Lincoln insisted the moral foundation of the Republicans required opposition to slavery, and rejected any " groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong ".

* Ceres Connection, a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated for promoting science education

Booth ignored an invitation to visit Lincoln between acts, however.

Other writers exploring possible connections between Booth's planning and Confederate agents include Nathan Miller's Spying For America and William Tidwell's Come Retribution: the Confederate Secret Service and the Assassination of Lincoln.

Considering these references to Robin Hood, it is not surprising that the people of both South and West Yorkshire lay some claim to Robin Hood, who, if he existed, could easily have roamed between Nottingham, Lincoln, Doncaster and right into West Yorkshire.

In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.

The Strategic Air and Space Museum, formerly the SAC Museum, was located adjacent to Offutt AFB till moved to its site off of I-80 between Omaha and Lincoln, preserves SAC's heritage in a fashion open to public view.

During the remainder of Paley's life his time was divided between Bishopwearmouth and Lincoln, during which time he wrote Natural Theology, despite his increasingly debilitating illness.

* American Civil War fought between the remaining United States of America under President Abraham Lincoln and the self-declared Confederate States of America under President Jefferson Davis ( April 12, 1861 — April 9, 1865 ) and Vice President Alexander Stephens.

In 1974 the first realtime two-way LPC packet speech communication was accomplished over the ARPANET at 3500 bit / s between Culler-Harrison and Lincoln Laboratories.

The war between England & France has become so brutal that Hugh of Lincoln is warned that " nothing now is safe, neither the city to dwell in nor the highway for travel ".

Some Tennessee whiskey producers point to their use of the Lincoln County Process, a charcoal-filtering process, to draw a distinction between Tennessee whiskey and bourbon.

As a result of the two Thomas Lincolns living in Kentucky over a 25-year period between 1789 and 1814, area residents in both Tennessee and Kentucky often confuse Hananiah's son as the father of President Lincoln and Hananiah Lincoln as the paternal grandfather of President Lincoln.

A 13th-century depiction of the Second Battle of Lincoln, which occurred at Lincoln Castle on 20 May 1217 during the First Barons ' War between the forces of the future Louis VIII of France and those of King Henry III of England.

Due to the overlapping of auto trail designations, portions of the route had other names that remain in common use, such as the Boston Post Road between Boston and New York, the Lincoln Highway between New York and Philadelphia, Baltimore Pike between Philadelphia and Baltimore, and the Dixie Highway in and south of eastern Georgia.

Historian David Potter ( 1976 ) said the emotional effect of Brown's raid was greater than the philosophical effect of the Lincoln – Douglas debates, and that his raid revealed a deep division between North and South.

The Lincoln Highway was not alone in being split among several numbers, but the entire routing between Philadelphia and Granger, Wyoming, was assigned " U. S. 30 " per the agreement.

Stevenson's dislike of Lincoln might have been prompted by a contentious meeting between the two, where Lincoln made several witty quips disparaging Stevenson.