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UNIT A
Getting Started with Access 2013
Table of Contents
Unit A: Getting Started with Access 2013.....................................................................................................................
2
Concepts Review ...............................................................................................................................................................
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Skills Review .......................................................................................................................................................................
3
Independent Challenge 2..................................................................................................................................................
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Independent Challenge 3..................................................................................................................................................
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Independent Challenge 4................................................................................................................................................


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Visual Workshop .............................................................................................................................................................
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Unit A: Getting Started with Access 2013


Concepts Review

Screen Labeling Matching Items Multiple Choice


1. Customers table tab
2. Record 10. f 17. d
3. Current record box 11. e 18. b
4. Expand button 12. b 19. d
5. First Record button 13. d
6. Previous Record button 14. a
7. Next Record button 15. g
8. New record button 16. c
9. FirstName field name and
values

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Skills Review
1. No data for solution file are supplied or created for step 1.
a. (See page Access 2.) Duplicate data is minimized.
Information is more accurate.
Information is more reliable.
Information is more consistent.
Data entry is faster and easier.
Information can be viewed and sorted many ways.
Information is more secure.
Several users and share and edit information at the same time.

b. Several fields constitute a record, several records constitute a


table, and several related tables create a relational database.

2. For Step 2: Data File: RealEstate-A.accdb. Solution File: RealEstate-A-Solution.accdb

c.
Table Name Number of records Number of fields
Agencies 4 7
HomeTypes 6 1
Listings 26 16
Realtors 11 5

d. Check to make sure the student’s name has replaced Gordon Bono’s name.

3. For Steps 3-8: Data File: Create RealEstateMarketing.accdb. Solution File:


RealEstateMarketingSolution.accdb

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3b: Check Design View of the Prospects table and compare the field names and data types.
3c: Check Datasheet View of the Prospects table and look for two records: the student’s name should be in the
first record and the professor’s name in the second record. (See Figure A-20 for the final datasheet for both the
States and Prospects table.)
3d: TX should be the value in the State field for the first two records.
3e: All columns should be widened so that all data is clearly visible.

4. Check Design View of the States table and compare the field names and data types to step 4a.

5. Check Design View of the States table and make sure that the StateAbbrev field is the primary key field.
Check Datasheet View of the States table, and make sure that the TX Texas record is entered.

6. Check the Relationships window. Check for primary key fields on the StateAbbrev field of the States table
and ProspectID field of the Prospects table as shown in Figure A-19. Check for a one-to-many relationship
on the StateAbbrev to State field with referential integrity enforced.

7a: Check Datasheet View of the States table, and make sure 7 more records were entered correctly as shown in
the step.

7b: Check Datasheet View of the States table to make sure three more state records were entered correctly for a
total of 11 records. Check to make sure all state names and abbreviations are spelled correctly.

8. Open the States table and expand the TX record. Make sure Student and Professor records appear in the
Subdatasheet as shown in Figure A-20 and that two more records were added.

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Independent Challenge 1
No project file is supplied for this Independent Challenge.

1a. Examples of database fields are in the first row. Each example should have 4-7 fields (columns).

1b. Examples of two possible records for each database are in the second and third rows.

Telephone directory

FirstName LastName Street City Zip Phone


Lisa Friedrichsen 111 Maple Fontanelle 50010 555-111-2222
Douglas Donald 222 Oak Schaller 50011 555-111-3333

College course offerings

Course name course section number of instructor’s term offered starting classroom
number credit hours last name date

Access I PCA114 101 3 Mahring Spring15 1/5/15 CLB403


Access II PCA115 201 3 Cahill Fall15 8/20/15 CLB405

Restaurant menu items

Menu item price description food category


Hamburger $1.99 quarter pounder with cheese entree
Fish Sandwich $1.79 white fish filet on a toasted bun entree

Vehicles

Make Model MilesPerGallon Year Color AskingPrice


Ford Escape 25 2011 Burgundy $15,000
Honda Accord 32 2009 White $11,000

Movie listing

Title TypeOfMovie LeadRole Director Length Rating Comments


Rolling Adventure Costner Spielberg 99 PG Struggling Iowa
Meadows farmer hits oil then
fights off neighbors
for wealth

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Space Station Science Clooney Spielberg 90 PG13 US and Russia race


Fiction for space domination
for the next
millennium

Islands of the Caribbean

CountryName Language Currency Capital Population


Puerto Rico Spanish US Dollar San Juan 3,839,810
Bonaire Dutch NAF Kralendijk 14,900

Physical Activities

ActivityName CaloriesBurnedPerHour BiggestRisk LeadInstructor


Biking 300 Serious injury due to crash Solarity
Hiking 350 Sprained ankle Downing

Shopping catalog

Item Item Weight Description Price


Number
Camping tent 123XYZ 32 Nylon camping tent $199.99
sleeps 8
Cookstove 1886XR2 5 Heavy-duty grill cooks 4 $19.99
patties

Conventions

ConventionName LocationCity LocationState MainHotel Cost StartDate EndDate


Fitness Plus Kansas City MO Downtown $200 7/6/16 7/9/16
Marriott
Intentional Living Denver CO Hyatt $400 7/7/16 7/10/16
Marquis

Party guest list

FirstName LastName Street City State Zip Telephone


Number
Kelsey Lang 9987 Ashley Park Des Moines IA 50001 555-666-7777
David Rice 7788 Pin Oak Drive Clive IA 50002 555-777-1111

Members of the House of Representatives

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First name last name party affiliation MM/YY state


elected
Charles Grassley R 11/15/86 IA
Samuel Brown D 11/15/98 KS

Ancient Wonders of the World

Name Country YearCreated CauseOfDestruction


Great Pyramid of Giza Egypt 2560 BC Flood
The Hanging Gardens Iraq 1750 BC Fire
of Babylon

Discuss that in order to preserve maximum capability to find, sort, filter, merge, and calculate on pieces of
information in the database, names should be divided into first and last name, addresses should be divided into
street, city, state, and zip fields, and units of measure and quantities should be in two fields as well.

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Independent Challenge
2
Data File: Recycle-A.accdb. Solution File: Recycle-A-Solution.accdb

c.
Table name Number of fields Number of records
Centers 10 4 (but 5 after the exercise is over
because the student adds another
record to this table in step i.)
Clubs 9 7 (but 8 after the exercise is over
because the student adds another
record to this table in step g.)
Deposits 5 100

The rest of the exercise creates the Relationships window shown in Figure A-21. Be sure to check for a one-
tomany relationship between the correct fields, with referential integrity enforced.

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Independent Challenge
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Data File: BusinesContacts-A.accdb. Solution File: BusinessContacts-A-Solution.accdb

b. Check to make sure the student’s name is in the last record of the Customers table with $7,788.99 in the
YTDSales field. Note the value of the State field as it will need to be entered into the States table in step g.
c. Check to make sure that Sprint Systems has been changed to MTB Mobile with a Street value of 4455
College St. in the first record (ID 1) of the Customers table.
d. Make sure the record for St. Luke’s Hospital (ID 20) has been deleted.
e., f. Check to make sure the States table with two fields has been created with State2 as the primary key field as
shown below.
g. Check to make sure that there are three records in the States table including KS Kansas, MO Missouri, and the
state information for the record they added in step b.
h.-i. The relationships are as follows:

j.-k. Make sure that the Relationships for BusinessContacts-A report is saved in the database. A preview of the
report is shown as follows:

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Independent Challenge
4
No project file is supplied for this Independent Challenge.

a.-b. The answers to “benefits of a relational database” or “benefits of Microsoft Access” will vary. Possible
answers include these points. Be sure that the students provide URLs to document their information.
--Avoid retype redundant data
http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270_11-5288500.html --Free
yourself from repetitive tasks, saving time and money --Manage
large amounts of information effortlessly.
--Find key information in seconds, not hours.
--Extract valuable information and trends from the mass of meaningless data. --Avoid
having to change your business to suit an off-the-shelf package
http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/services2/benefits_to_my_company.htm
--compatibility with SQL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access

c-d. Students may select any five (or more) technical terms to define, but each should in some way be related to
databases or Access. Answers will vary, but five such terms are provided as an example. Be sure that the
students provide URLs for each definition.
SQL: Structured Query Language (SQL) is the most popular computer language used to create, modify and
query databases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL database: A database is information set with a regular structure. Its front-
end allows data access, searching and sorting routines. Its back-end affords data inputting and updating. A
database is usually but not necessarily stored in some machine-readable format accessed by a computer. There
are a wide variety of databases, from simple tables stored in a single file to very large databases with many
millions of records, stored in rooms full of disk drives or other peripheral electronic storage devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database relational database: A relational database is a collection of data items
organized as a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different
ways without having to reorganize the database tables. The relational database was invented by E. F. Codd at
IBM in 1970.
http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid13_gci212885,00.html data: In computing, data is
information that has been translated into a form that is more convenient to move or process. Relative to today's
computers and transmission media, data is information converted into binary digital form.
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci211894,00.html
flat file system: A flat file system is a system of organizing files in an operating system in which all files are
stored in a single directory. In contrast to a hierarchical file system, in which there are directories and
subdirectories and different files can have the same name as long as they are stored in different directories, in a
flat file system every file must have a different name because there is only one list of files. Early versions of the
Macintosh and DOS operating systems used a flat file system. Today's commercial operating systems use a
hierarchical file system.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/f/flat_file_system.html

e. Answers will vary, but some possibilities of how a student could use Access to organize their life or career
might include:
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Independent Challenge
Job Search Database
Business Contacts Database
Baseball/Softball/Basketball/Bowling League Players and Schedule Database
Membership Database to any Organization or Club
Contributions Database

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Photos/Videos Database
Exercise/Diet Log

Visual Workshop
Data File: Basketball-A.accdb. Solution File: Basketball-A-Solution.accdb

Be sure that the Players table includes the student’s name instead of Ellyse Howard. Students will observe the
one-to-many power of related tables by editing the Ellyse Howard data to their own name in the Offense table
because one player is related to many Stats records.

Be sure the Relationships for Basketball-A report is in the database and shows the relationships shown in Figure
A-22.

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Belgian beet-root sugar makers, in February, 1897, to the
Belgian Chamber of Representatives, a translation of which was
transmitted at the time to the State Department at Washington
by the United States Consul at Ghent. Said that memorial:

"The fiscal system applied to sugar factories in force


[previously] in the various countries mentioned [was] chiefly
established by the following laws: Germany, law of May 31,
1891; Austria, law of May 20, 1888; France, law of July 29,
1884; Russia, law of July 13, 1891; Belgium, law of April 16,
1887; Holland, law of April 15, 1891, and preceding
legislation. Since the dates above mentioned, the basis
established in these various countries had undergone only
secondary modifications, rather local than international, and,
generally, of a nature to diminish the fiscal favors instead
of increasing them. From the point of view of competition
among the countries of Europe, a sort of peaceful stability
was thus acquired, resulting in a corresponding equilibrium in
the interior relations of each country between the rural and
industrial systems, as well as between the cultivator and
owner. This situation, slowly established, has, during the
last year, suffered the most serious disturbances. Important
modifications have been adopted by all our competitors, Russia
excepted; the latter, enjoying a special system, suffices
almost entirely for itself without having much to export, it
is, therefore, not necessary to give it special consideration.

"The modifications to which we allude are the following: In


Germany, the law of May 27, 1896, increased the export
bounties in the following proportions: (1) For raw sugar, from
30 cents to 60 cents per 220 pounds; (2) for white sugar, from
41 cents to 72 cents; (3) for refined sugar, from 48 cents to
89 cents. This is not meant to interfere with other measures,
notably the imposition of supplementary taxes, and the
provision by which a factory, under the penalty of having its
proportion of export bounties reduced, is, so to speak,
obliged to increase its output or at least to maintain it at
the same level, even under the most unfavorable circumstances.
Immediately afterwards, Austria, by the law of July 7, 1896,
took corresponding protective and defensive measures,
especially increasing from about $2,000,000 to $3,600,000 the
amount of public funds destined for export bounties. In
France, the Chamber of Deputies has just voted export bounties
even more important than those of other countries, amounting
to—(1) raw sugar, 68 cents per 220 pounds; (2) white sugar,
77 cents; (3) refined sugar, 87 cents. All these export
bounties are independent of the interior advantages accorded
in Germany and Austria, in various forms less tangible,
although not less real, and in France in the form of bonuses
upon the manufacture, which, in the official French
statistics, appear for sums varying from $1.16 to $l.54½ per
220 pounds, and which may be normally fixed at $1.35 per 220
pounds. Holland, in turn, has just revised its system, giving
from the beginning to its producers a bounty of $1.06½ per 220
pounds on raw sugars. It is an economic war to the finish
between rival nations, each desiring the ruin of the others,
which these measures unchain on the sugar interests of Europe."

United States Consular Reports,


June, 1897, page 304.

{523}

The effect of bounty-payments is to enable the sugars-makers


of the country which pays them to sell sugar to foreign buyers
at a lower price than to buyers at home. Consumers in such a
country as England, where no sugar is produced, and where no
duties on imported sugar are levied, reap an enormous gain
from them, at the expense of the sugar consumers of the
bounty-paying countries. At the same time, the cane-sugar
growing colonies of England, especially those in the West
Indies, suffer from the competition which is made unnatural by
this method of governmental support. England, therefore, has
conflicting interests in the matter. The mass of her home
population, who are great consumers of "sweets," delight in
the continental bounties, which give them cheap sugar; while
her West India colonists, and the English sugar refiners, are
groaning under the hard competition they maintain.

In the bounty-paying countries the same conflict of interest


exists between beet-growers and sugar consumers, and
governmental attitudes on the question of adhering to the
bounties seem to depend on the relative strength, or political
weight, of the two bodies. Repeated attempts have been made to
come to an international agreement for their abolition or
modification. A general conference on the subject was held
without result in London, 1887; and another was undertaken in
June, 1898, at Brussels, on the invitation of the Belgian
government. The latter made manifest a strong desire to be rid
of the bounty-paying system, on the part of Germany,
Austria-Hungary, Belgium and the Netherlands. France was
willing to withdraw her direct bounties on the exportation of
sugar, but insisted on maintaining an internal system of taxes
which was said to have the real effect of a bounty. Russia,
likewise, would adhere to a domestic system of regulations
which had that effect. Great Britain declined to engage
herself to impose a duty on what was called "bounty-fed"
sugar, for the purpose of neutralizing the bounty, and so
placing that commodity on a footing of equality with its
rivals in her markets. Hence no agreement of common action
could be reached, and the Conference adjourned without result.
Continental consumers of sugar continue to pay a high price
for the prosperity of their beet-growers and sugar-makers; but
Englishmen, who have reveled in cheap "jams" at foreign
expense, are probably to lose that privilege, since the
exigencies of their Boer war expenditure have forced the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, at last, to introduce a duty of
4s. 2d. per cwt. on refined sugar in his budget for 1901. But
in his speech on introducing the budget, in the House of
Commons (April 18, 1901), the Chancellor expressed hopefulness
that the foreign sugar bounty might save England from a rise
in price for sugar, notwithstanding the tax. His remarks were
as follows:

"What is likely to be the effect on the price of sugar of the


imposition of a duty? In my opinion that is a very doubtful
question, because the price of sugar is not governed solely by
the ordinary conditions, but it is governed largely by the
bounty system. The great bulk of our imports of sugar come
from bounty-giving countries; and what is that system? Why,
Sir, it amounts to this, that the country giving the bounty
encourages the production of sugar within its borders, and at
the same time does its best to restrict the consumption of
sugar by its own people by every possible means, so that the
result is that there is an enormous surplus of sugar produced
which must find a foreign market, and which under present
circumstances can only find a market here. Therefore, it is
quite conceivable, unless, of course, a bounty-giving country
either reduced the area of their sugar production or lowered
their own excise duties on sugar for the benefit of their own
population—both of which would mean the abolition of the
bounty system—it is quite conceivable that the result of the
imposition of a tax on sugar here might be that, though at
first the price might go up and the consumption of sugar might
be consequently decreased, there would be such an influx into
this country of bounty-paid sugar that could not go anywhere
else that the price might be brought down. I merely put the
hypothesis to the Committee, because I think it is one that
ought to be considered by anyone who looks into this
question."

London Times, April 19, 1901.

"The geographical poles of the sugar trade are now Great


Britain and the United States, and the two great areas of
production are the beet-sugar countries of the continent of
Europe and the cane-growing countries of the American and the
Asiatic tropics. These two areas of production have been in
active rivalry for the past thirty years, and out of this
rivalry have come some striking results. The first is, that
beet sugar controls the world's sugar market; for of the
8,000,000 tons that constitute the commercial supply of sugar,
about 5,000,000 are produced from the beet, and the price of
this portion of the supply practically determines the price of
the 3,000,000 tons of cane sugar also. Still more significant
results are the removal of Great Britain from her once
dominant position in tropical sugar production and the
elimination of France and Spain from the struggle for
leadership in the same line of enterprise, as economic
conditions have centered the cane-sugar trade and industry in
America. To-day the continental beet-sugar countries supply
the United Kingdom with seventy-five per cent. of its annual
sugar imports (2,500,000 tons), leaving only one-quarter to
come from the tropics. The United States, on the other hand,
has become the chief market for tropical sugar. …

"India and the United States exclude bounty fed beet sugar;
and the reciprocity treaties with the United States, by
favoring tropical sugar with a minimum duty, put a narrower
limit to beet-sugar development, now prospering under a
protective tariff and state bounties. The general effect of
these positive aids to trade, as well as of the negative
restraints, has been to encourage tropical enterprise in which
sugar plays a leading role. …

"As things stand now, Germany continues to control the world's


sugar situation—not because of any superiority over the
tropics in machinery, nor because of the advantages of fiscal
bounties over tropical resources of the soil, but because all
the natural advantages under the prevailing slipshod methods
of tropical cane cultivation are more than counterbalanced by
the scientific methods of European agriculture applied to beet
farming. When the tropics apply to the cultivation of canes
(which covers half of the cost of producing sugar) the same
degree of scientific attention that has been given to the
methods of manufacturing the canes into sugar, then—and not
until then—need the beet-sugar interests of Europe look to
their laurels, under the present conditions of the trade."

J. F. Crowell, The Sugar Situation in the Tropics


(Political Science Quarterly. December, 1899).

{524}

In the United States, the Dingley Tariff law of 1897 required


the Secretary of the Treasury to levy a special countervailing
duty on all bounty-fed sugar equal to the benefit derived by
the manufacturers of it from the bounty systems under which it
was produced. German and French sugars have had to bear such
countervailing duty, and it was exacted on Russian sugar for a
time after the passage of the Dingley Act; but the Russian
government succeeded in bringing about a suspension of it,
pending negotiations for a commercial treaty, which came to
nothing. It was the Russian contention, that the system
operating in that country for the benefit of the sugar
producers, by means of internal taxes which are not collected
on exported sugar, and by paternal regulations which control
prices in the domestic market, is not a bounty system, within
the meaning of the American law. (The full text of the Russian
law on the subject may be found translated in the
"Congressional Record," February 26, 1901, page 3335.) By
these arguments and by protracted negotiations the Russians
succeeded in keeping the door of the American market open to
their sugar, with no extra levy of duties, until February,
1901, when the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States
arrived at the decision that he is required by the law to levy
and collect a countervailing duty or tax of 32 cents on each
pood (about 36 pounds) of Russian sugar imported into the
United States. The order to that effect, issued on the 12th of
February, gave great satisfaction to the American sugar-trust,
and more than equal dissatisfaction to other important
interests in the country, which are threatened by the danger
of retaliatory tariffs on the Russian side. The situation
produced is thus described in a Washington letter to the
"Tribune" of New York: "The iron and steel manufacturers have
been clamoring for the continued suspension of the
countervailing duty on Russian sugars. They have begun, they
say, to build up a market in Russia for American steel
products, and that market will be lost to them if Russia in
retaliation imposes maximum instead of minimum duties on steel
and iron manufactures. The steel industry all over the world
is threatened with a glut in production, and the American
manufacturers especially are keenly looking about for every
possible opportunity to dispose of an increasing surplus. They
deplore, therefore, the reimposition of the sugar duty, and
will help to fight for a reversal of Secretary Gage's action
by the Board of General Appraisers or by the courts. The
Secretary contends that the Russian scheme of encouraging the
sugar interest should be submitted for judgment to some legal
tribunal, and that in such an evident case of doubt it is his
duty to favor the Government to the extent of reimposing the
disputed duty. The case will go to the Board of General
Appraisers in New York, and then to the Federal courts, and a
final decision is, perhaps, two years off. Meanwhile the
German, French and other Continental governments have been
somewhat appeased, and the Sugar Trust has won a substantial
victory at the expense of the iron and steel consolidation.
Russia is disposed to resort to retaliatory decrees, and the
whole horizon is more or less clouded with threats of
commercial warfare."

The immediate consequence of the order of the United States


Treasury Department was a retaliatory order by M. De Witte,
the Russian Minister of Finance, issued four days later
(February 16), directing the collection of an additional
tariff of 30 per cent net upon American hardware, iron, steel,
boilers, pipes, forgings, castings, tools, gas and water
meters, dynamos, sewing machines, when such articles are of
American manufacture. This includes motors and machinery of
all kinds.

SUGAR TRUST, The.

See (in this volume)


TRUSTS: UNITED STATES;
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1897 (MARCH-JULY);
and SUGAR BOUNTIES.

SULU ARCHIPELAGO:
Acknowledgment of the sovereignty of the United States.
The Sultan's Government.

See (in this volume)


PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: A. D. 1899 (MAY-AUGUST).

SUMER.

See (in volume 1)


BABYLONIA, PRIMITIVE;
(in volume 4)
SEMITES;
and (in this volume)
ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCH: BABYLONIA.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: A. D. 1895.


Decision against the constitutionality of the Income Tax.

See (in this volume)


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1895 (APRIL-MAY).

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: A. D. 1900-1901.


Hearing of cases involving questions concerning the status of
the new possessions of the United States.

See (in this volume)


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1900-1901.

SURGERY, Recent advances in.

See (in this volume)


SCIENCE, RECENT: MEDICAL AND SURGICAL,
and CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS (X RAYS).

SUSA, Recent exploration of the ruins of.

See (in this volume)


ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCH: PERSIA.

SUWAROFF ISLAND:
Proposed annexation to New Zealand.

See (in this volume)


NEW ZEALAND: A. D. 1900 (OCTOBER).

SUZERAINTY:
The question between Great Britain and
the South African Republic.

See (in this volume)


SOUTH AFRICA (THE TRANSVAAL): A. D. 1884-189-1;
1897 (MAY-OCTOBER); and 1898-1899.

SWAT VALLEY:
British India and the tribes of the.

See (in this volume)


INDIA: A. D. 1895 (MARCH-SEPTEMBER);
1897-1898; and 1901 (FEBRUARY).

SWAZILAND:
Administration assumed by the Transvaal Government.
See (in this volume)
AFRICA: A. D. 1895 (THE TRANSVAAL).

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SWEDEN AND NORWAY:


Norwegian discontent with the union.

"The question of representation in foreign countries has now


convulsed Scandinavia for some years. A race of democratic
tendencies usually thinks more of its Consular than of its
Diplomatic Service, and Norway, in demanding immediate
permission to appoint her own Consuls, announces that she is
willing to leave for future consideration the subject of
separate Ambassadors for the two countries. Professor Harald
Hjärne crystallizes the reply of Sweden in the words: 'By
granting such a request we run the risk of our foreign policy,
and with it also our satisfactory relations with foreign
Powers, in fact, the whole external safety of our country,
becoming a mere ball for the Norwegian parties during their
contests for power.' However, the King, who is ever ready to
grant privileges to his Norwegian subjects, even when acting
against his better judgment, declared himself willing to
accede to the petition as to the Consuls, and to allow the
sister country to have the direct voice in the regulation of
foreign affairs which she has so long demanded, but only on
condition that she would contribute to the defence of the two
Kingdoms in proportion to her population. … Many leading
Norwegians declare that those who shout so loudly for a
revision of the Constitution are, after all, in the minority.
They argue that claims on Sweden are, for the most part,
merely advanced as a party cry, and that if a general appeal
were made to the country, the majority would pronounce,
without hesitation, in favor of a continuation of the Union to
the State which has given Norway, for the first time in her
history, a period of nearly a century of peace and
uninterrupted prosperity. …
"The Left support their plea for separate Consuls by pointing
out that the mercantile navy of Norway is far larger than that
of Sweden; they claim for it, in fact, that it is the third
largest in the world. A reply to this is that a large
proportion of this navy consists of old wooden sailing-boats,
unfit for any purpose but that of carrying timber, that Norway
has increased her mercantile navy at the expense of her
warships, and that in time of war she would have to depend
exclusively on the splendid modern battleships of Sweden for
the defence both of her harbours and her shipping, since she
is not now herself the owner of one single modern ironclad. It
may be mentioned, in connection with this matter, that the
exports and imports of Sweden are nearly treble those of
Norway, the timber trade of the former country alone being the
largest in Europe, and that it is in consequence of Sweden
leaving so much of her carrying trade in the hands of the
sister country, thereby contributing no little to her
prosperity, that she has been encouraged and enabled to
increase her merchant navy to such an extent. Sweden has
throughout the century made enormous sacrifices for her navy,
and especially has this been the case since King Oscar came to
the throne. She is, therefore, so far as can be foreseen, in a
position to defend both her own ports and her merchant
vessels. She does not, however, profess to be equal to the
task of protecting the long coast-line of Norway and that vast
fleet of merchant vessels, of which the land last named is
justly proud, without any aid whatever from the sister
country, and statistics prove that, however willing in an
emergency Norway might be, she would be unable to offer for
this purpose help that would be of any practical use. …

"In March, 1895, during the Consular crisis, King Oscar went
over to Christiania and did his utmost to effect a compromise.
Demands were made on him by the Extreme Left, to which he
could not consent, and he referred the Storthing to the Act of
Union proving that should he agree to the claim, he would
himself be guilty of a violation of the Constitution. Some
painful scenes ensued, and the King left Norway almost at
once. On his arrival in Stockholm he received an ovation such
as few Swedish monarchs can ever have had before. Every
distinguished man in the country seemed to have assembled at
the railway-station to greet him; each public body was
represented by its leading member, the whole of the Swedish
Parliament was present, and the fervour and enthusiasm with
which he was saluted is beyond description. The Press, without
a single exception, took the King's side, praising His
Majesty's action in most lavish terms; this produced more
effect than anything in Norway, where the Left had counted on
the support of the Radical Press in Sweden, not realising
that, when once there was a question of attacks on the Union
and the Constitution, all parties were equally prepared to
rally round the King. …

"In view of the strained relations between Sweden and Norway,


it may be said that Russia's encroachment on the liberties of
Finland is extremely ill-timed if, as is probable, she
contemplates offering her protection to Norway as she did to
the neighbouring country at the beginning of the century.
Even if no such extreme step on the part of Russia be in view,
should those among Norway's two million inhabitants who demand
separation, have their way, the country would be able to offer
the Imperial Government a splendid bribe as the price of its
non-intervention, for to the north of the territory of
Norrland lies the Varanger Fjord, an inlet including several
fine harbours, which is practically free from ice throughout
the year. This bay, so much coveted by the greater power, is
only separated from the Czar's dominions by a narrow strip of
Norwegian soil, which has already been crossed by a railway
constructed by Russia with the permission of Norway. The value
of this fjord to the Empire in time of war would be
incalculable, and to have this magnificent gift at its
disposal is a perpetual temptation to Norway to win the
suffrages of the only European Power she has reason to fear
should she ever hoist the flag of revolt she has so long held
half-unfurled in her hand."

Constance Sutcliffe,
Scandinavia and her King
(Fortnightly Review, October, 1897).

In 1899, an Act directing the removal of the emblem of union


from the flag of Norway was passed by the Norwegian Storthing
for the third time over the veto of the King, and became law,
under the provisions of the Constitution.

SWEDEN AND NORWAY: A. D. 1899 (May-July).


Representation in the Peace Conference at The Hague.

See (in this volume)


PEACE CONFERENCE.

SWITZERLAND: A. D. 1894-1898.
The Initiative and the Referendum in practice.

Three times during the year 1894, with a conservative result


in each instance, important questions of legislation were
submitted to the vote of the Swiss people. In one instance
they were asked to demand that a portion of the federal
customs dues should be assigned to the cantons for cantonal
use, the avowed aim of the proposition being to weaken the
Confederation. They rejected the scheme by a vote of 347,491
against 145,270.
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A still heavier majority was given against Socialist proposals
for a constitutional article guaranteeing the right of every
Swiss citizen to remunerated work. This was supported by only
75,880 votes, against 308,289. For another Socialist proposal,
of gratuitous medical attendance, the necessary petition (with
50,000 signatures) in order to bring it to a popular vote, could
not be obtained. A third, for extending factory regulations to
all shops in which manual work is done, and for establishing
obligatory trade syndicates, to fix salaries, prices, number
of apprentices, was lost by a vote of 135,713 against 158,492.

Again, in 1895, the result of appeals made to the Referendum


seemed to show that the disposition of the people was more
conservative than that of the government. An Army Reform Bill,
which enlarged the federal control of military administration,
was rejected by 270,000 votes, against 195,000. Two or three
other proposals of less moment were voted down by considerable
majorities, and it appeared unmistakably that changes dependent
on the popular will were not to be easily made.

In 1896 a proposal from the Federal Council to make the head


of the War Office commander-in-chief of the army in time of
peace was voted down, on a referendum, by 310,992 against
77,169. During that year there was much agitation of a project
for the establishment of a State Bank, which the Chambers had
sanctioned; but, on being submitted to the people, early in
1897, it was defeated by a majority of about 60,000.

Another measure, supported by the Federal Council and adopted


in the Chambers, for the purchase of the five principal
railways of the republic, was submitted to the decision of the
Referendum in February, 1898, and carried by 384,272 votes
against 176,002. Accordingly, the five railways known as the
Swiss Central, the Union, the Northeastern, the St. Gothard,
and the Jura Simplon, about 1,650 miles in total length,
became the property of the state. The general plan of the
government was to purchase the railways at twenty-five times
the average net annual earnings for the past ten years,
providing this was not less than the actual cost. The
companies to have the privilege of deducting surplus capital,
but to turn over the roads in first-class condition.

SWITZERLAND: A. D. 1897.
Constitutional amendments.
Consul Germain wrote from Zurich, July, 1897:

"Constitutional amendments were voted on and adopted by the


Swiss people on Sunday last, July 11. The first amendment
relates to forestry and gives the Federal Government control
over and power to enact uniform laws to regulate Swiss
forests. The second amendment puts the manufacture, sale, and
importation of food products under federal control. These two
amendments will relieve the cantons from vexatious
legislation, heretofore differing in each of the twenty
cantons and four half cantons, and give the whole of
Switzerland uniform laws on forestry and the manufacture,
sale, and importation of food products."

United States Consular Reports,


October, 1897, page 296.

SWITZERLAND: A. D. 1899 (May-July).


Representation in the Peace Conference at The Hague.

See (in this volume)


PEACE CONFERENCE.

SWITZERLAND: A. D. 1900.
Rejection of new electoral proposals.

On the 4th of November the Swiss nation gave its decision


regarding two important proposals which under the name of the
"double initiative" had been causing great excitement among
the population of the Confederation. One of these proposals
had for its object the election of members of the National
Council on the system of proportional representation, the
other the election of the Federal Council by the people. Both
proposals were rejected, the first by 242,004 popular votes to
163,548, and by 11½ cantonal votes to 10½, and the second by
264,087 popular votes to 134,167 and by 14 cantonal votes to
8.

SYRIA:
Exploration of ruined cities of the Roman province.

See (in this volume)


ARCHÆOLOGICAL RESEARCH: SYRIA.

SZECHUAN.

See (in this volume)


CHUNG-KING.

T.

TA TAO HUI, The.

See (in this volume)


CHINA: A. D. 1900 (JANUARY-MARCH).

TACNA, The question concerning.

See (in this volume)


CHILE: A. D. 1894-1900.

TAGALOS,
TAGALOGS, The.

See (in this volume)


PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: THE NATIVE INHABITANTS.

TAGALOS:
Revolt against the sovereignty of the United States
in the Philippines.

See (in this volume)


PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: A. D. 1898 (AUGUST-DECEMBER), and
after.

TAKU FORTS, Allied capture of the.

See (in this volume)


CHINA: A. D. 1900 (JUNE 10-26).

TALANA HILL, Battle of.

See (in this volume)


SOUTH AFRICA (THE FIELD OF WAR):
A. D. 1899 (OCTOBER-DECEMBER).

TALIENWAN: A. D. 1895.
Russo-Chinese Treaty.

See (in this volume)


CHINA: A. D. 1895.

TALIENWAN: A. D. 1898.
Lease to Russia.

See (in this volume)


CHINA: A. D. 1898 (MARCH-JULY).

TALIENWAN: A. D. 1899.
Declared a free port.

See (in this volume)


CHINA: A. D. 1899 (AUGUST).

TAMMANY HALL.

See (in this volume)


NEW YORK CITY: A. D. 1894-1895;
and 1897 (SEPTEMBER-NOVEMBER).
TARIFF, Chinese.

See (in this volume)


LIKIN.

TARIFF LEGISLATION:
Australia: A. D. 1894-1895.
Defeat of Protection in New South Wales.

See (in this volume)


AUSTRALIA (NEW SOUTH WALES): A. D. 1894-1895.

TARIFF LEGISLATION:
Australia: A. D. 1901.
Promised protective policy for the new Commonwealth.

See (in this volume)


AUSTRALIA: A. D. 1901 (MAY).

TARIFF LEGISLATION:
Canada: A. D. 1897.
Revision of tariff, with discriminating duties in favor of
Great Britain, and provisions for reciprocity.

See (in this volume)


CANADA: A. D. 1896-1897.

TARIFF LEGISLATION:
Europe and America: A. D. 1896-1901.
The question of sugar bounties and countervailing duties.

See (in this volume)


SUGAR BOUNTIES; and GERMANY: A. D. 1896 (MAY).

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TARIFF LEGISLATION:
Germany: A. D. 1891-1899.
Recent commercial treaties.
Preparations for forthcoming treaties.

See (in this volume)


GERMANY: A. D. 1891-1899.

TARIFF LEGISLATION: Germany: A. D. 1895-1898.


Demands of the German Agrarian Protectionists.

See (in this volume)


GERMANY: A. D. 1895-1898.

TARIFF LEGISLATION: Germany: A. D. 1901.


Promised increase of protective duties.

See (in this volume)


GERMANY: A. D. 1901 (JANUARY).

TARIFF LEGISLATION: Japan: A. D. 1897.


New tariff law.

See (in this volume)


JAPAN: A. D. 1897.

TARIFF LEGISLATION: Philippines: A. D. 1901.


New tariff for the Islands.

See (in this volume)


PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: A. D. 1901 (MARCH).

TARIFF LEGISLATION: Porto Rico. A. D. 1900


Tariff between Porto Rico and the United States.

See (in this volume)


PORTO RICO: A. D. 1899-1900.
TARIFF LEGISLATION: United States: A. D. 1897.
The Dingley Tariff.

See (in this volume)


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1897 (MARCH-JULY);
and 1899-1901.

TARIFF LEGISLATION: United States: A. D. 1899-1901.


Reciprocity treaties.

See (in this volume)


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: 1899-1901.

TARIFF LEGISLATION: United States: A. D. 1900.


Relations of the tariff to steel and tin plate industries.

See (in this volume)


TRUSTS: UNITED STATES.

TASMANIA.

See (in this volume)


AUSTRALIA; and CONSTITUTION OF AUSTRALIA.

TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY, The.

See (in this volume)


MEXICO: A. D. 1898-1900.

TELEGRAPH, Cape to Cairo.

For the projected line of telegraph from the southern to the


northern extremity of Africa, Mr. Cecil Rhodes has undertaken
to find most of the needed money. He began construction from
the northern terminus of the Cape telegraphic service. In 1899
it was reported: "He has pushed the line northward through
Rhodesia to Umtali, in Mashonaland, which is 1,800 miles from

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