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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 85

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84 he again called for a report of the treasury hoping this to establish the expenses of the government on a firm basis, for which annual appropriations should be made, and special appropriations for special expenditures. He succeeded in establishing what has later been called the Ways and Means Committee. Gallatin opposed Jay's treaty and when the president refused to send in the correspondence regarding it, Gallatin charged Jay and the other federalists with pusillanimously surrendering the honor of their country. He was hated and feared by his opponents and it was hoped that the alien or sedition law might e enforced against him. His term of service extended from 1794 to 1801, when he was called by Thomas Jefferson to be secretary of the treasury.
 
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