[109] Congressional Record, 45th Congress, 1st Session, pp. 245, 1750; 3rd Session, 1314, 1316, 2309.
[110] Ibid., 53rd Congress, 2nd Session, p. 2399; 1st Session, pp. 1392, 1396.
[111] Ibid., 56th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 3814.
[112] Ibid., 55th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 541.
[113] Munro, The Government of the United States, p. 297.
[114] A Letter from John E. Bruce, Brooklyn, N. N., a man active during the Reconstruction. June 6, 1921.
[115] James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, 1861-1881, Vol. II, p. 515.