. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. served on the Committees on Patents, Expenses inthe State Department and the Civil Service. He was re-elected tothe Fortieth Congress, and served on the Committee on PublicExpenditures. He earnestly favored the impeachment of the Presi-dent, and as early as July 11, 1867, used the following language ina speech to the House: The people are weary with the delay inhunting up specialties and trifles when the grand glaring fact staresthem in the face that the Chief Magistrate has met both the last andthe present Congress wit
. The Fortieth Congress of the United States: historical and biographical. served on the Committees on Patents, Expenses inthe State Department and the Civil Service. He was re-elected tothe Fortieth Congress, and served on the Committee on PublicExpenditures. He earnestly favored the impeachment of the Presi-dent, and as early as July 11, 1867, used the following language ina speech to the House: The people are weary with the delay inhunting up specialties and trifles when the grand glaring fact staresthem in the face that the Chief Magistrate has met both the last andthe present Congress with the assumption of complete legislativepower, exercising every attribute of a despot in this country, whileCongress stood still and submitted. He favored expansion of thecurrency, which he advocated in a speech delivered, as he asserted, inbehalf of a class very seldom represented on this floor by one oftheir own number, the old settlers, whose hands have shared the ^toils of frontier life from youth, who know how to use the ax, themaul, the log-chain and the frow. 263.
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