. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. aused by the resignation of ErastusCorning. In the Thirty-eighth Congress he was placed on the Com-mittee on Claims. In the Fortieth Congress, to which he was alsoelected, he served with the Committee on Foreign Affairs and thaton the Library. Mr. Pruyn was an active member of the Fortieth Congress, sus-taining a prominent part in the proceedings and debates of the delivered speeches on a variety of important questions ; for exam-ple, on the Impeachment Resolutions presented by Mr. Ashley—onthe New York Custom
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. aused by the resignation of ErastusCorning. In the Thirty-eighth Congress he was placed on the Com-mittee on Claims. In the Fortieth Congress, to which he was alsoelected, he served with the Committee on Foreign Affairs and thaton the Library. Mr. Pruyn was an active member of the Fortieth Congress, sus-taining a prominent part in the proceedings and debates of the delivered speeches on a variety of important questions ; for exam-ple, on the Impeachment Resolutions presented by Mr. Ashley—onthe New York Custom House Affairs—on the veto of the Recon-struction Bill—on the Supplementary Reconstruction Bill—on theResolution for the Impeachment of President Johnson—on theTreaty-making power—Construction of the Impeachment clau^ ofthe Constitution—on the Purchase of Alaska, and on other subjectsand occasions. His expressed views on the prominent questionsbefore Congress were in harmony with those of the Democraticparty, of which he is an able and efficient member. 363. feVoEFeriM^ (^. HON. JOHN V L PRITi-N FROM KEW VORK WILLIAM WILLIAMS. ^^ILLIAM WILLIAMS was born in Pennsylvania, near
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