Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole ...Gales & Seaton, 1834 |
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... Clay . TENNESSEE - Felix Grundy , Hugh L. White . OH ! O - Thomas Ewing , Thomas Morris . LOUISIANA - G . A. Waggaman , Alexander Porter . INDIANA - Wm . Hendricks , John Tipton . MISSISSIPPI - George Poindexter , John Black ...
... Clay . TENNESSEE - Felix Grundy , Hugh L. White . OH ! O - Thomas Ewing , Thomas Morris . LOUISIANA - G . A. Waggaman , Alexander Porter . INDIANA - Wm . Hendricks , John Tipton . MISSISSIPPI - George Poindexter , John Black ...
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... Clay , Ewing , Frelinghuysen , Hendricks , Kent , Knight , Mangum , Moore , Naudain , Poindexter , Prentiss , Silsbee , Smith , Swift , Tomlinson , Tyler - 19 . The question was then taken on the motion of Mr. POINDEXTER , and decided ...
... Clay , Ewing , Frelinghuysen , Hendricks , Kent , Knight , Mangum , Moore , Naudain , Poindexter , Prentiss , Silsbee , Smith , Swift , Tomlinson , Tyler - 19 . The question was then taken on the motion of Mr. POINDEXTER , and decided ...
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... CLAY rejoined . He was a matter - of - fact man ; and he preferred to guide himself by facts , rather than by mere speculative lights . The Chair had stated that it had been customary for him to appoint both the standing and the select ...
... CLAY rejoined . He was a matter - of - fact man ; and he preferred to guide himself by facts , rather than by mere speculative lights . The Chair had stated that it had been customary for him to appoint both the standing and the select ...
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... CLAY said he did not rise to reply to any one the termination of the short session of Congress . With who had felt himself called upon to rise in the Senate to most of those bills the President must have been less ac- vindicate the ...
... CLAY said he did not rise to reply to any one the termination of the short session of Congress . With who had felt himself called upon to rise in the Senate to most of those bills the President must have been less ac- vindicate the ...
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... CLAY , Mr. WRIGHT , and Mr. KING participated ; and Mr. CLAY moved to amend the re- solution by inserting after the words " five Senators , " the Mr. CALHOUN , pursuant to notice , moved for leave words " to be elected by the Senate ...
... CLAY , Mr. WRIGHT , and Mr. KING participated ; and Mr. CLAY moved to amend the re- solution by inserting after the words " five Senators , " the Mr. CALHOUN , pursuant to notice , moved for leave words " to be elected by the Senate ...
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Página 177 - Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens, and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency.
Página 65 - By the constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which, he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Página 57 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 67 - The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that...
Página 101 - SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of this act, and whenever required by the Secretary of the Treasury, the said corporation shall give the necessary facilities for transferring the public funds from place to place, within the United States, or the territories thereof, and for distributing the same in payment of the public creditors...
Página 287 - Treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law; * * * to make report, and give information to either branch of the legislature, in person or in writing (as he may be required), respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives, or which shall appertain to his office...
Página 71 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Página 411 - Frontier of the United States. Communicated by the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the United States, March 12, 1863.
Página 461 - An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution...
Página 305 - ... in such manner as the President of the United States shall from time to time order or instruct.