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made in conformity with law, or an appropriation, it requires notice to be given. I can see no objection to it. The question was taken, by yeas and nays, and resulted-yeas 31, nays 15. Mr. Houston. I desire to submit the following amendment upon which I will make no speech, but merely ask the yeas and nays upon it. And that there be paid to the mechanics and laborers em- ployed in Government works in the District of Columbia, twenty per cent. on the per d-iem they are now receiving. 1 Cong1·essional Globe, Part III, 1st Sess., 32d Cong., 1851-1852, p. 2424. To LEWIS s. CoRYELL 1 Washington 28th Aug 1852. My Dear Friend. I have not had the pleasure to receive your former letter. I am truly pained that I cannot now attend to your wishes, and [those of] other friends. I am compelled to start for home as soon as Congress adjourns. I have to speak at Pittsburg on the 3rd Proximo, if I live. From there I have five appointments in Ohio, and several in Tennessee! I hope to do some good by my efforts for the Party, and the triumph of our time honored Democratic Principles. The harness is on me and I will do battle! Truly thy Friend Sam Houston Hon: L. S. Corryell P. S. If I live until next Holy-days, I will agree to speak to you, on any subject that you may please, if it is even Matrimony! But now I must go home to my dear Wife and our "young Bar- barians." Thine truly Houston Corryell 1 From a photostatic copy furnished by The Historical Society of Penn- sylvania. The speeches which Houston mentions in this letter have not been found.
REMARKS ON THE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL, AUGUST 30, 1852 1
That was the very reason why the proviso was introduced, that they should have rank independent of the volition of the
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