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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 127

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125 shall be henceforth incapable of holding any office of honor or profit under the United States. His associate Samuel Smith took a much more active part in the debates and on committees. After leaving the senate, Mr. Reed served as a general in the war of 1812. In 1817 Mr. Reed was elected to the house. The reports are given more fully than they were during his seven years term in the senate. He speaks on most of the important questions that come up. He made a motion that a statue be erected to baron DeKalb, but the motion was rejected since no such tribute had been paid to Washington. 1 He was placed on the military committee which investigated the Ambrister and Arbuthnot case. A report of disapprobation of the trial 1 Annals of Congress Vol. 33 pp 721-22
 
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