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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Title: Recollections of President Lincoln and his
administration.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes
material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture,
environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry,
mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Chittenden, Lucius Eugene; 1891. viii, 470 p.; 8 . 9604.de.17.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER V. The Third House Journal?How We ReFormed Legislation In
1850. The first half of the nineteenth century touches its close.
Legislation is in full blast. There are few general laws;
railroads, banks, bridges, turnpikes, cemeteries, almost every
corporation is created by a special charter. Much of the
legislation is absurd, more of it dangerous. Existing corporations
found it necessary to be represented by counsel at the State
capital during the whole session. There were thus brought together
many lawyers who had little to do but to watch the daily journal
and the interests of their corporation clients. We had come to be
known as the " Third House." We met daily in the State Library and
lampooned everybody who deserved our attention, especially the
members of the two lower houses. More effective work for our
clients was accomplished by the satirical items which we made for
the newspapers than by our legitimate work before the committees.
At the beginning of the session of 1850, it was suggested that we
ought to have a permanent organization, elect a speaker, and
appoint our standing committees. The suggestion met with favor and
was adopted. The proceedings of the first day's session were
published in the first number of the Third House Journal. This
proved to be a success, anddemand for it was so great that Gen. E.
P. Walton assumed the expense of future numbers. Like all printed
papers which have only a transitory interest, these copies amused
for the moment, went into the waste-basket and were forgotten.
Twenty years later I found a single number in a long-disused
portfolio, and its perusal induced me to attempt to collect all the
numbers. The most diligent search failed to disclose another
number. It was not until 1874 that Henry Stevens, of London,
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