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!

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.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books 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, submit...

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