[1246] Debates, 18th Cong. 2d Sess. 527-33.
[1247] Ib. 588.
[1248] Ib. 609.
[1249] Ib. 614.
After considerable wrangling, the bill was reported favorably from the Judiciary Committee (ib. 630), but too late for further action at that session.
[1250] Debates, 19th Cong. 1st Sess. 845.
[1251] Four days after the House adopted Webster's bill (ib. 1149), he wrote his brother: "The judiciary bill will probably pass the Senate, as it left our House. There will be no difficulty in finding perfectly safe men for the new appointments. The contests on those constitutional questions in the West have made men fit to be judges." (Webster to his brother, Jan. 29, 1826, Priv. Corres.: Webster, i, 401.)
[1252] Debates, 19th Cong. 1st Sess. 417-18.
[1253] Ib. 419.
[1254] Ib. 420-21.