Second Annual Message
12/01/1878
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The supervision of the elections will be reduced to a mere inspection, without authority on the part of the supervisors to do any act whatev...
The objections to the practice of tacking general legislation to appropriation bills, especially when the object is to deprive a coordinate ...
The object of the bill is to destroy any control whatever by the United States over the Congressional elections.
The framers of the Constitution regarded the election of members of Congress in every State and in every district as in a very important sen...