03/19/1888
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"I have forborne addressing the Senate upon the subject."
"I am not responsible to the Senate, and I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for judgment."
"I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department."
"I do not suppose that 'the public offices of the United States' are regulated or controlled in their relations to either House of Congress by the fact that they were 'created by laws enacted by themse..."