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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 148

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146 state in common with others had instructed him to demand what belongs to her. And yet he thought it was wrong and he wished to arrest the whole method of applying public money. The constitutional question had been overlooked and precedent after precedent had been established, until it was almost impossible to prevent it or refuse its applicants." On the question of the Cumberland Road, he said, "congress has expended million after million - more than enough to pay the national debt - unjustly and partially." Mr. Branch scores the administration for its useless expenditure of money - $200,000 or $300,000 for a frigate for the Greeks. He compares the treasury at the beginning of the administration and its present bankrupt condition 1 1. Benton - Debates in Congress Vol 9 p 299
 
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