. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. & co .a ^ c/3 „P5 ^£0-> >-, ° ^Z oj -— ca &v= -co t: -o r-H (D cf o incj ^ . a, s ^ •n <! S- ffi c -I—»- s- -a o o H< < OJ 1) o £ S aj ~> O t/3 •8 8 t— ■>-> 1) <U b£ <« CO rt 0J CO rt as 2$6 BEN HARDIN. ngressmen had many other duties to perform, aside from thosethat arc reported in the debates and proceedings. Committee meet-ings and labor thereat, investigations in the congressional library* andelsewhere for needed facts and statistics, encountering the lobbyistand hearing his ins
. Ben Hardin: his times and contemporaries, with selections from his speeches. & co .a ^ c/3 „P5 ^£0-> >-, ° ^Z oj -— ca &v= -co t: -o r-H (D cf o incj ^ . a, s ^ •n <! S- ffi c -I—»- s- -a o o H< < OJ 1) o £ S aj ~> O t/3 •8 8 t— ■>-> 1) <U b£ <« CO rt 0J CO rt as 2$6 BEN HARDIN. ngressmen had many other duties to perform, aside from thosethat arc reported in the debates and proceedings. Committee meet-ings and labor thereat, investigations in the congressional library* andelsewhere for needed facts and statistics, encountering the lobbyistand hearing his insidious speech, and entertaining the occasional con-stituent who came to the national capital sight-seeing or office hunt-in-, were some of the tasks, more or less agreeable, of the Represen-tative. Mr. Hardin was accustomed to get copies of the poll booksof the various counties of his district, and from these send documentsthrough the mails to his constituents. A discourteous postmaster atBardstown, an inten
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