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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 167

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165 in place of James Shields. Mr. Wilkinson was a radical free soiler and proposed in 1860 that in any bill relating to the territories a clause excluding slaves might be added. He interested himself too in the land question. He considered the preemption laws a failure because of the opportunities which they gave for speculation and he urged the passage of the homestead bill. His last act in the senate was to defend the rights of citizens who had become bonafide settlers, under preemption laws, upon land which was afterward set aside as a reservation for the Winnebago Indians. Mr. Wilkinson was defeated for reelection to the senate by David S. Norton. Two years later he was elected to the house. Mr. Wilkinson's first act in the house was the introduction of a resolution
 
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