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... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . 12 III . AGAIN IN CONGRESS . 47 IV . THE VICE - PRESIDENT 60 V. THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . 67 VI . A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN 82 VII . STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 92 VIII . THE FIRST POLITICAL TELEGRAM IX . ALONG THE ...
... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . 12 III . AGAIN IN CONGRESS . 47 IV . THE VICE - PRESIDENT 60 V. THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES . 67 VI . A TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN 82 VII . STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 92 VIII . THE FIRST POLITICAL TELEGRAM IX . ALONG THE ...
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... House of Representatives instructing the Senators from that State to vote in favor of a certain bill then pending in Congress . The resolution was in the act of passing without opposition , when a hitherto silent member from one of the ...
... House of Representatives instructing the Senators from that State to vote in favor of a certain bill then pending in Congress . The resolution was in the act of passing without opposition , when a hitherto silent member from one of the ...
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... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTABLE MEMBERS OF THE FORTY - FOURTH CONGRESS - - - PROMI- TRIAL OF GENERAL BELKNAP THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETWEEN HAYES AND TILDEN CREATION OF THE ELECTORAL COMMIS- SION THE WRITER'S SPEECH ON THAT OCCASION ...
... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NOTABLE MEMBERS OF THE FORTY - FOURTH CONGRESS - - - PROMI- TRIAL OF GENERAL BELKNAP THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST BETWEEN HAYES AND TILDEN CREATION OF THE ELECTORAL COMMIS- SION THE WRITER'S SPEECH ON THAT OCCASION ...
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... House of Representatives . The principal contention on the part of the counsel for the accused was that there could be no conviction , inasmuch as Belknap had resigned ... House . In the first - mentioned IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 13.
... House of Representatives . The principal contention on the part of the counsel for the accused was that there could be no conviction , inasmuch as Belknap had resigned ... House . In the first - mentioned IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 13.
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... House , that the Electoral Commission was constituted . The bill having this end in view originated in the House in Jan- uary , 1877 ; the Commission was constituted , and the con- troverted questions were soon thereafter determined ...
... House , that the Electoral Commission was constituted . The bill having this end in view originated in the House in Jan- uary , 1877 ; the Commission was constituted , and the con- troverted questions were soon thereafter determined ...
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