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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 159

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frequent. His speech in favor of the navy appropriation bill urges the necessity for the same owing to the unprotected condition of the southwest. He moved an amendment appropriating $10000 for removing the  obstruction from the mouth of the Red river, lest the course of the river be changed. 
Mr Conrad introduced the bill out of which has grown the present system of boxes and receptacles for letters and papers in post offices and provided that the government fix an uniform rental for all. 
In 1842 he gave as his reason for opposing the Webster-Ashburton treaty that he did not believe in compromising on the boundary questions. He cited instances in which he thought the nation had not maintained her dignity. "The important case of the Caroline had been narrowed down to a matter of etiquette, and the

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157 frequent. His speech in favor of the navy appropriation bill urges the necessity for the same owing to the unprotected condition of the southwest. He moved an amendment appropriating $10000 for removing the obstruction from the mouth of the Red river, lest the course of the river be changed. Mr Conrad introduced the bill out of which has grown the present system of boxes and receptacles for letters and papers in post offices and provided that the government fix an uniform rental for all. In 1842 he gave as his reason for opposing the Webster-Ashburton treaty that he did not believe in compromising on the boundary questions. He cited instances in which he thought the nation had not maintained her dignity. "The important case of the Caroline had been narrowed down to a matter of etiquette, and the