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same be expended for the establishment of a reserve west of the Pecos River." Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, was responsible for the change in the appropriation. The amendment passed.
FEBRUARY, 1859
To HENRY S. RANDALL1
Washington, 1st Feby. 1859. My Dear Sir, I thank you for your very welcome letter, and shou'd I live to locate myself at "Cedar Point," where I propose to go so soon as I return to Texas; I will be happy to see you there. My object is to raise flocks, for wool as well as for mutton. It is on the Bay of Galveston, where I propose to settle. Satisfied as I am that it is well adapted to the purpose of sheep raising. I have not yet received the Galveston News to which you refer in your letter. My main object in after life of a temporal char- acter, will be to raise stock, and sheep will be my main reliance, for profit, as well as for ple~sure. Truly Thine, Sam Houston [Rubric] Henry S. Randall, Esq., Cortland Village, N. York.
1 Dienst Papers, The University of Texas Library.
A VINDICATION OF TEXAS FROM CHARGES MADE BY JUDGE JOHN C. WATROUS BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE INVESTI- GATING HIS CONDUCT, FEBRUARY 3, 1859 1 In pursuance of notice, I ask leave to introduce a bill to repeal so much of the act of February 21, 1857, entitled "An Act to divide the State of Texas into two judicial districts," as creates and establishes a district court of the United States in the eastern district of the State of Texas, and to incorporate the same with the western district of the said State. 2 Before the motion is put, however, I desire to make some remarks explanatory of its object. I might have claimed this as a privileged question; but not wishing to do so, I have determined to submit the remarks which I wish to make in relation to it on the presentation of this bill. I need not inform the honorable Senate, or you, Mr. President, that a subject of much excitement has occupied the attention of the Congress of the United States, in relation to the impeach- ment of one of the judicial officers of Texas.
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