Political Quotes

The question whether Article XXIX is still in force depends, so far as the construction of the treaty goes, upon the meaning of the words 'the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII'

But the most serious objection to the legislation is that it creates at once upon the taking effect of the law the offices of district attorney and marshal for each of the three districts, and the effect, it seems to me, must be to abolish…

The correspondence which accompanies the treaty will put the Senate in possession of all the facts known to the Executive.

A serious question would be raised as to whether these officers were not at once legislated out of office and vacancies created.