[1255] Debates, 19th Cong. 1st Sess. 423-24.
[1256] Ib. 436.
[1257] Ib. 442. Rowan's amendment was defeated (ib. 463). Upon disagreements between the Senate and House as to the number and arrangement of districts and circuits, the entire measure was lost. In the House it was "indefinitely postponed" by a vote of 99 to 89 (ib. 2648); and in the Senate the bill was finally laid on the table (ib. 784).
[1258] 12 Wheaton, 420.
[1259] Taney, leading counsel for Maryland, had just been appointed Attorney-General of that State, and soon afterwards was made Attorney-General of the United States. He succeeded Marshall as Chief Justice. (See infra, 460.)
[1260] Johnson was only thirty-one years old at this time, but already a leader of the Baltimore bar and giving sure promise of the distinguished career he afterward achieved.
[1261] 12 Wheaton, 436.
[1262] 12 Wheaton, 437-39.
[1263] Ib. 441.
[1264] Ib. 441-42.