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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 147

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Upon his election in 1823 to the senate as a democrat, Mr. Branch was at once placed on the pension committee. His attitude toward the internal improvement bills is strangely inconsistent. The Delaware and Chesapeake project he discusses favorably and asks that it might extend into North Carolina where the state legislature had appropriated some means for rendering Dismal Swamp navigable. These funds had become exhausted and unless congress aided them all would be lost. In the final vote however he voted negatively 2 and explained it on the ground of unconstitutionality. "In the general scramble for public treasure he was determined to get what belongs to North Carolina - nothing more. There was no gentleman in the senate who had not made similar applications. His
1. Benton - Debates in Congress Vol 8 p 179
1. Benton - Debates in Congress Vol 8 p 180

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145 Upon his election in 1823 to the senate as a democrat, Mr. Branch was at once placed on the pension committee. His attitude toward the internal improvement bills is strangely inconsistent. The Delaware and Chesapeake project he discusses favorably and asks that it might extend into North Carolina where the state legislature had appropriated some means for rendering Dismal Swamp navigable. These funds had become exhausted and unless congress aided them all would be lost. In the final vote however he voted negatively 2 and explained it on the ground of unconstitutionality. "In the general scramble for public treasure he was determined to get what belongs to North Carolina - nothing more. There was no gentleman in the senate who had not made similar applications. His 1. Benton - Debates in Congress Vol 8 p 179 1. Benton - Debates in Congress Vol 8 p 180