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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 153

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151 chiefs and proposed an amendment to an Indian Bill prohibiting the practice. When the senate discussed its right to demand reasons from the president for the removal from office which he had been making Mr McKinley denied the right of the senate. He said, "if the president has no right to remove an officer without the consent of the senate then the executive power is not confided in the president but in the senate." He considered the president was responsible to the people alone. and not to the senate. The session in 1830 was unique On the first day only eight senators presented themselves and not until the twenty ninth day had a quorum arrived. In the house thirteen appeared the first days and on the twenty seventh a quorum was present. This would
 
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