. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. hundred and thirty-two steamboatsthat arrived at and departed from Cairo; four hundred thousandcars of freight were shipped from that place; and seventy-eightthousand passengers passed over the railroad there, besides thosewho arrived and departed on nearly five thousand steamboats thatlanded there. Although Cairo has now but about twelve thousandinhabitants, it has an immense commerce which is increasing day byday and year by year. July 7,1868, he made an able argument onthe Alaska purchase, maintaining that • honor an
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. hundred and thirty-two steamboatsthat arrived at and departed from Cairo; four hundred thousandcars of freight were shipped from that place; and seventy-eightthousand passengers passed over the railroad there, besides thosewho arrived and departed on nearly five thousand steamboats thatlanded there. Although Cairo has now but about twelve thousandinhabitants, it has an immense commerce which is increasing day byday and year by year. July 7,1868, he made an able argument onthe Alaska purchase, maintaining that • honor and good faith de-mand at the hands of the United States that the treaty should beexecuted in the spirit in which it was entered into. Among othernoteworthy speeches of Mr. Eaum was one of much research on theInternational Pacific Eailroad bill, showing the importance of therailroad to our people, and the economy of the United States aid-incr in its construction from Cairo to the Eio Grande, and anotherspeech on the Eeconstruction of Yirginia, Mississippi and Texas. 386. -y^iyBBSdl:
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