MACU, maloo, a nomadic Indian tribe of the Amazon region. They range through northwestern Brazil, more particularly along the Rio Negro. They are of the lowest type of savages of South America, provide neither shelter nor clothing and plant no crops. They live by hunting and fishing, are hostile and ap parently have no connection with other tribes. A report of their condition was made by Theo dor Koch-Grunberg in 'Anthropos> (Vol. I, pp. 877-906, 1906).
MacVEAGH, mak'va, Franklin, American cabinet officer, brother of Wayne MacVeagh (q.v.) : b. near Phoenixville, Chester County, Pa., 1837. He was graduated at Yale in 1862 and took his LL.B. at Columbia University in 1864. He was admitted to the bar in 1864; and in 1864-66 was engaged in practice in New York. His health failing he went to Chicago in 1866 and there .engaged in the wholesale grocery business. After the great fire in 1871 he established the firm of Franklin MacVeagh and Company, wholesale grocers, and he also became connected with various banking and manufacturing interests. He became president of the Citizens' Association of Chicago in 1874 and was largely responsible for many import ant reforms. He was Democratic candidate for United States senator against Senator Cul lom in 1894 but was defeated. From 1896 he was associated with the Republican party, and in 1909 he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Taft, serving throughout the Taft administration. He was vice-presi dent of the American Civic Association in 1905; served as president of the Chicago bureau of charities and of the Municipal Art League; ansl was a founder and member of the executive committee of the National Civic Federation.
MacVEAGH, Wayne, American lawyer and diplomat: b. Phoenixville, Pa., 19 April 1833. He was graduated from Yale in 1853 and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1856. He was district attorney of Chester County 1859-64, became prominent as a Repub lican leader, and conspicuous in his profession, and in 1870-71 was Minister to Turkey. He was an active opponent of "machine politics' and in 1872 led the Republican opposition to Simon Cameron, his father-in-law. He was chairman of the "MacVeagh Commission" sent by President Hayes to Louisiana in 1877 to act as the President's unofficial representative and aid in adjusting political differences there. He was Attorney-General of the United States, March to September 1881, and was Ambassador to Italy 1893-97. In 1903 he was chief counsel of the United States in the Venezuela arbitra tion before The Hague Tribunal.
McVICKAR, William Neilson, American Protestant Episcopal bishop: b. New York, 19 Oct. 1843; d. 28 June 1910. He was graduated at Columbia College (1865) ; and at the General Theological Seminary (1868). He was ordained deacon (1867) and priest (1868). Being elected coadjutor bishop of Rhode Island, 19 Oct. 1897, he was consecrated 27 Jan. 1898, and on the death of Bishop Clark, September 1903, suc ceeded to the see.