The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction

by Charles E. Chadsey

[180] McPherson, 190.

[181] Dunning, in Papers of the American Historical Association, iv, 473; Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 40th Congress, p. 565.

[182] McPherson, 264.

[183] Ibid., 178.

[184] McPherson, 178.

[185] Vetoed March 2, 1867, and repassed by both houses on the same day. For copy of the act, see McPherson, 176 ff.

[186] His argument here, however, is weak, as the power of suspension would easily have covered all such cases.

[187] Ex parte Hennen, January, 1839, 13 Peters, 139.

[188] McPherson, 261.

[189] Ibid., 262.