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LEFT SHERRILL 393 oxxERZER by Senator Sherman and others as a com- promise measure. It instructed the Sec- retary of the Treasury to buy silver bul- lion to the amount of 4,500,000 ounces a month, and to issue Treasury notes in payment. Though the bill was approved, the financial policy continued to be a dis- turbing question and arguments favoring a repeal were presented at almost every opportunity. The business depression of the summer of 1893 was believed to be a consequence of the bill, and President Cleveland summoned Congress to convene in special session, Aug. 7. A bill to repeal the silver-purchasing proviso of the Sherman Act passed the House Aug. 28. In the Senate, the Voorhees bill was presented as a substitute, its provisions being a repeal of the silver-purchasing clause, but affirming bimetallism as a National policy. After a protracted con- test the Voorhees bill passed the Senate, Oct. 30. It was concurred in by the House Nov. 1, and the President approved it the same day. SHERMLL, CHARLES HITCHCOCK, an American lawyer, born in Washington, D. C, in 1867. He was educated at Yale University and practiced law in New York, from 1891 to 1909. From 1909 to 1911 he was United States Minister to Argentina. He resumed practice of law in 1912. Besides taking an active part in politics, he was president of the Yale' Law School Alumni; chairman of the' Committee on Foreign Relations of the' National Chamber of Commerce; trustee of St. Luke's Hospital, Tokio, Japan; of the American College for Girls, Constan- tinople, Turkey ; of New York University, as well as of a number of numerous socie- ties and clubs. He originated a series of international inter-university track meets in 1894. During the World War he served as adjutant-general, with the rank of brigadier-general, in charge of the United States draft. He published "Stained Glass Tours in France" (1908) ; "Stained Glass Tours in England" (1909) ; "Stained Glass Tours in Italy" (1913) ; "French Memories of Eighteenth Century America" (1915) ; "Modernizing the Mon- roe Doctrine" (1916); "Have We a Far- Eastern Policy?" (1920). SHERRY, a favorite Spanish wine, prepared from small white grapes grown in the province of Andalusia, those which furnish the better qualities being culti- vated in the vineyards of Xeres. In the manufacture of sherry the grapes are not gathered till they are quite ripe, and the fermentation is continued till nearly all the sugar has been converted into alco- hol. Sherries may be divided into natural, containing from 20 to 26 per cent, of proof spirit, and fortified, containing from 30 to 40 per cent. Sherry is used in many of the wines of the pharmacopoeia, as Vinum ferri, etc. SHERWOOD FOREST, an ancient royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, celebrated for the exploits of Robin Hood and his followers. SHERWOOD, GRANVILLE HUDSON, an American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, born in Elgin, 111., in 1878. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.; University of Chicago; and the Western Theological Seminary, from which latter institution he received the degree of D.D., in 1917. In 1903 he was made a deacon and priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. From 1903 to 1905 he served as rector of Christ Church, Streator, 111.; from 1905 to 1917 as rector of Trinity Church, Rock Island, 111.; and in April, 1917, became bishop of Springfield, 111. SHERWOOD, ISAAC R., an Ameri- can public official, born at Stanford, N. Y., in 1835. He was educated at An- tioch College, Ohio, and the Ohio Law College, Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the Civil War, entering the army as a private, and eventually rising to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers. From 1869 to 1873 he was secretary of state of Ohio; from 1873 to 1875, he was a member of the 43rd Congress from the 6th Ohio District; and from 1878 to 1884 he was a probate judge. In 1907 he was re-elected from the 9th Ohio District, being re-elected regularly from that time on and serving in the 60th to the 66th (1907 to 1921). At various times, be- ginning with 1865 and up to 1898, he was successively editor of the Toledo, Ohio, "Commercial"; the Cleveland, Ohio, "Leader' r ; the Toledo, Ohio, "Journal"; and the Canton, Ohio, "News Democrat." While serving in Congress, he was the author of the Sherwood "Dollar-a-Day Bill" and the "Medal of Honor Bill." He was a member of the G. A. R., and of the Loyal Legion. SHERZER, JANE, an American edu- cator, born at Franklin, Ohio. She was educated at the universities of Jena, Zu- rich, Michigan, Paris, and Berlin, receiv- ing the degree of A.M. and Ph.D. from the latter institution, in 1902. From 1882 to 1895 she was principal of the Franklin, Ohio, high school; from 1889 to 1891 instructor of English, and from 1892 to 1894, dean of Oxford College; from 1895 to 1899, principal of the Acad- emy for Young Women, Jacksonville, 111. ; from 1903 to 1904, professor of English philosophy and dean of women, Illinois College, Jacksonville, 111.; and from 1905