2 Mactaris

MACTARIS, 2 2 m. S.E. of Le Sers, which is 103 M. S.W. of Tunis by rail, an ancient town of North Africa, in which the influence of Punic civilization lasted until A.D. 200, when it became a Roman colony. It has a fine arch of triumph of Trajan (A.D. 116), another triumphal arch; a temple of Apollo and Diana; an aqueduct, of which 12 arches are still standing, and (perhaps) the thermae which it supplied, and the remains of two mausolea.

MacVEAGH, WAYNE

American lawyer and diplomat, was born near Phoenixville, Chester county (Pa.) on April 19, 1833. He graduated at Yale in 1853, was admitted to the bar in 1856, and was district attorney of Chester county in 1859-64. He held commands in militia forces raised to meet threatened Confederate invasions of Pennsylvania (1862-63). He became a leader in the Republican party, and was a prominent opponent of his father-in-law, Simon Cameron, in the fight within the party in 1871. MacVeagh was minister to Turkey in 187o-71;

was a member of the State constitutional convention of 1872-73; was chairman of the "MacVeagh Commission," sent in 1877 by President Hayes to Louisiana, which secured the settlement of the contest between the two existing state governments and thus made possible the withdrawal of Federal troops from the state; and was attorney-general of the United States in 188i under President Garfield, but resigned immediately after Garfield's death. In 1892 he supported Grover Cleveland, the Democratic nominee for the presidency, and from 1893 to 1897 was ambassa dor to Italy. He returned to the Republican party in 1896. In 1903 he was chief counsel of the United States before The Hague tribunal in the case of Germany, Great Britain and Italy against Venezuela. He died at Washington, Jan. 11, 1917.