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... recollect it , authorized him to act for the French government ? -A . Yes , sir . " Q. Do you know of any authority to any member of the firm to act as agent for the French government prior to that ? -A . No , sir ; using the word ...
... recollect it , authorized him to act for the French government ? -A . Yes , sir . " Q. Do you know of any authority to any member of the firm to act as agent for the French government prior to that ? -A . No , sir ; using the word ...
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... recollect ? -A . No ; I do not recall any others . " Q. At either of these interviews , did Chambrun show you a copy of a letter ? -A . Perhaps some other matter should come before that . He stated to me that Place had been removed from ...
... recollect ? -A . No ; I do not recall any others . " Q. At either of these interviews , did Chambrun show you a copy of a letter ? -A . Perhaps some other matter should come before that . He stated to me that Place had been removed from ...
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... recollect at present where . I saw them together in New York . " Q. Did you see Mr. Remington there about that time ? -A . I saw Mr. Remington there . " Q. Did you see General Dyer in intercourse with him ? —A . I have seen them ...
... recollect at present where . I saw them together in New York . " Q. Did you see Mr. Remington there about that time ? -A . I saw Mr. Remington there . " Q. Did you see General Dyer in intercourse with him ? —A . I have seen them ...
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... recollect having a conversation with the Secretary of War in relation to the telegram to Squire ? -A . I do . Q. What direction did the Secretary of War give you in that inter- view ? -A . Some bids were to be opened on a particular day ...
... recollect having a conversation with the Secretary of War in relation to the telegram to Squire ? -A . I do . Q. What direction did the Secretary of War give you in that inter- view ? -A . Some bids were to be opened on a particular day ...
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... recollect seeing the Secretary for the first time after he came back from the post - office , where he was when I ... recollect of . • Q. Would you not recollect it if you had ? -A . I think I should . I have no recollection of it . By ...
... recollect seeing the Secretary for the first time after he came back from the post - office , where he was when I ... recollect of . • Q. Would you not recollect it if you had ? -A . I think I should . I have no recollection of it . By ...
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A. B. DYER agent ammunition arms?-A asked Austin Baldwin breech-loading Brevet caliber 58 CARPENTER carriages cartridges CHAIRMAN Chief of Ordnance Colonel Crispin Colt's committee contract conversation delivered deposited dispatch Enfields France French government Garrison Gatling guns Hartley & Graham Houston and Greene indorsement interview January letter Major of Ordnance manufacture margin Marquis de Chambrun matter Navy obedient servant October October 13 October 20 ORDNANCE AGENCY Ordnance Bureau Ordnance Department ORDNANCE OFFICE ordnance stores papers parties pier Poultney pounds pig-lead pounds powder purchase question received recollect remember Remington & Sons respectfully rifles sale of arms SCHURZ Schuyler Secretary Secretary of War sell Senator sent Sept sold Spencer carbines Spencer rifles Springfield armory Springfield muskets Squire telegram testimony that?-A tion told transaction Treasury United unserviceable WAR DEPARTMENT Washington Watervliet arsenal WITNESS York
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Page 833 - I have begun a sketch, which those who come after me will successively correct and fill up, till a code of rules shall be formed for the use of the Senate, the effects of which may be accuracy in business, economy of time, order, uniformity, and impartiality.
Page 726 - No executive department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, In any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 833 - ... the forms and rules of proceeding which have been adopted as they were found necessary, from time to time, and are become the law of the House, by a strict adherence to which the weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to check and which the wantonness of power is but too often apt to suggest to large and successful majorities.
Page xviii - Congress, who shall wilfully make default, or who, appearing, shall refuse to answer any question pertinent to the matter of inquiry in consideration before the House or committee by which he shall be examined, shall in addition to the pains and penalties now existing, be liable to indictment as...
Page xviii - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House, or any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or any committee of either House of Congress...
Page 833 - Commons, than a neglect of, or departure from, the rules of proceeding: that these forms, as instituted by ' our ancestors, operated as a check and control ' on the actions of the majority, and that they ' were in many instances, a shelter and protection ' to the minority, against the attempts of power.
Page 723 - Government property," and shall not be withdrawn or applied, except in consequence of a subsequent appropriation made by law.
Page 314 - Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default under the pains and penalties in such cases made and provided. To Forest A.
Page xvii - It is perfectly right that all opportunities should be given to "• discuss the truth of the evidence given against a prisoner ; but there is a rule, which has universally obtained, on account of its importance to the public for the detection of crimes, that those persons who are the channel by means of which that detection is made, should not be unnecessarily disclosed...
Page 835 - The party upon which it naturally devolves to propose a question, ought to have the power, it would seem, to present its proposition in the shape for which it is willing to be responsible.