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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 84

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83 under each branch of the revenue, the money expended under each appropriation and stating the balance of each branch remaining unexpended. 1 Hamilton, the secretary if the treasury, replied that with the limited clerical force the report could not be sent in, but Gallatin's enemies remembered it against him when he became secretary of the treasury. In 1794 Gallatin entered the lower house as a follower of James Madison, the leader of the republicans. It is said that in the first term he asserted his power and took his place in the councils of his party; in the second, he became its acknowledged chief, and in the third led it on to final victory. He took part in all the debates but made the treasury the special object of his criticism. 1. Annals of Congress. Vol 4. pp 26-27
 
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