If to this should be added an imperative provision of law forbidding any Member of Congress from applying for the appointment of any person to an executive office, the abuses of the old system would be corrected and the separate departments of the government would be independent of each other.
Sherman proposes a law to prevent Congress members from influencing executive appointments to enhance government independence.
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If that party had been content with the compromise of 1850, and had faithfully observed the pledges in its platform, there would have been no Civil War.
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
We have done no wrong; we have no apologies to make, and no concessions to offer.
What boy did not feel the gushings of patriotic emotion when one of these old veterans appeared upon the stage.
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