The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion

by Lindsay Rogers

[54] Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. ii, p. 215.

[55] Ibid., p. 311.

[56] Ibid., p. 419.

[57] Williams, p. 25.

[58] 2 Stat. L. 592, and 1 Stat. L. 733.

[59] Learned, The President’s Cabinet, p. 231. See also U. S. v. Kendall, 5 Cranch (U. S. C. C., 1837), 275.

[60] Bassett, Life of Andrew Jackson, vol. ii, p. 413. “... in introducing the postmaster general into the cabinet, Jackson began a practice that probably tended, in the long run, to invigorate the workings of the postal establishment, notwithstanding the fact that Barry, successor to McLean in the office, made a conspicuously dismal record.” Learned, p. 250.

[61] Below, Chapter III.

[62] See Haney, Congressional History of Railways, p. 319 (Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin: Economic and Political Science Series, vol. iii).

[63] 10 Congressional Debates, 1752.