As the holder of a civil office, having the supervision of money appropriated by Congress, and of contracts for army supplies, I do think Congress, or the Senate by delegation from Congress, has a lawful right to be consulted.
Sherman asserts the importance of congressional oversight in military financial matters.
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It seems to me that in the present condition of our finances there is no necessity for conferring these large powers on the Secretary of the Treasury.
How can we avert a calamity at which humanity and civilization shudder?
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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