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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 74

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to serve four years. He served on some rather unimportant committees - one for revising the journal previous to publication; another, to act with a committee form the house to examine and present engrossed bills that passed the house from time to time; and another for framing a bill for the relief of certain widows and orphans, invalids,and other persons!
Wingate opposed making provision for further or more effective protection of the frontiers and opposed too a bill providing for the compensation of senators and representatives. There was a strong sentiment throughout the country that these should be chosen from the class that would make 1. By this bill Timothy Mix was allowed $5 a month for the loss of his right hand during service in the Revolutionary Warm Abel Tourney, disabled mariner, received $1 a month Nicholas Westfall, a British deserter received 100 acres of unappropriated land and the sum of $336.

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73 to serve four years. He served on some rather unimportant committees - one for revising the journal previous to publication; another, to act with a committee form the house to examine and present engrossed bills that passed the house from time to time; and another for framing a bill for the relief of certain widows and orphans, invalids,and other persons! Wingate opposed making provision for further or more effective protection of the frontiers and opposed too a bill providing for the compensation of senators and representatives. There was a strong sentiment throughout the country that these should be chosen from the class that would make 1. By this bill Timothy Mix was allowed $5 a month for the loss of his right hand during service in the Revolutionary Warm Abel Tourney, disabled mariner, received $1 a month Nicholas Westfall, a British deserter received 100 acres of unappropriated land and the sum of $336.