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House Elections Committee Report on Matthew Lyon’s Petition Contesting a Recent Election (1821)
27 Friday Jan 2012
Posted in Committee Papers
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report on War with Great Britain (1812)
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
Posted in Committee Papers
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This was all I could photograph—sorry!
A Box Full of HUAC Papers on Pete Seeger
24 Tuesday Jan 2012
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee on William Walker’s Filibustering Expedition (1858)
20 Friday Jan 2012
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Report on the Congress of Panama (1826)
20 Friday Jan 2012
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The Evarts Act of 1890 – Creating Federal Circuit Courts
18 Wednesday Jan 2012
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Senate Judiciary Committee Papers on Henry Billings Brown’s Supreme Court Nomination (1890)
14 Saturday Jan 2012
Posted in Committee Papers
Repeal of Sec. 25 of the Judicary Act of 1789 – House Judiciary Committee Report (1831)
13 Friday Jan 2012
Posted in Committee Papers
The Minority Report:
“E.D. White” was the father of Edward Douglass White, who sat on the Supreme Court from 1894-1921, the last eleven years as Chief Justice.
For an overview of the failed movement to abolish judicial review of state-court decisions, see this paper by Mark Graber.
Speaker Cannon Appoints a House Committee (1905)
27 Sunday Nov 2011
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Joe Cannon was one of the most powerful Speakers of the House in American history. Until a Progressive-Democratic coalition stripped him of the power in 1910, Cannon presumed to appoint all members of all House committees. (I saw one pathetically groveling missive in which a Congressman shamelessly begged Cannon to place him on the Ways and Means Committee.)
This next document isn’t especially significant. It’s merely an attestation from the Clerk of the House that Cannon appointed fourteen named members of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization on December 11, 1905:
Those individuals were Benjamin Howell (R-NJ), Robert Adams, Jr. (R-PA), Augustus Gardner (R-MA), Burton French (R-ID), Robert Bonynge (R-CO), Frederick Stevens (R-MN), Ira Wood (R-NJ), William Bennett (R-NY), Everis Hayes (R-CA), Jacob Ruppert, Jr. (D-NY), John Burnett (D-AL), J. Edwin Ellerbe (D-SC), John (not James) M. Moore (D-TX), and Thomas Bell (D-GA). No historical notables, but I assume the Committee played a major role in drafting the Naturalization Act of 1906, the first major revision of naturalization procedures in over a century.
