[332] Ibid., January 20, 1851.
[333] Sanborn, Congressional Grants of Land in Aid of Railways, Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin, pp. 27-30.
[334] Cutts, Constitutional and Party Questions, pp. 193-194.
[335] Douglas renewed his bill in the short session of 1848-1849, but did not secure action upon it.
[336] Cutts, Constitutional and Party Questions, p. 195. There is so much brag in this account that one is disposed to distrust the details.
[337] Sanborn, Congressional Grants, pp. 31-34.
[338] Globe,31 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 904. The vote was 26 to 14.
[339] Ibid., p. 1838.
[340] Sanborn, Congressional Grants, p. 35.
[341] John Wentworth, in his Congressional Reminiscences, hints at some vote-getting in the East by tariff concessions; but Douglas insisted that it was the Chicago branch, promising to connect with Eastern roads, which won votes in New York, Pennsylvania and New England. See Illinois State Register, March 13, 1851. The subject is discussed by Sanborn, Congressional Grants, pp. 35-36.