 | 1908 - 478 pages
...disturbing legislation. Mr. Buchanan said, "if you defeat them at this session, they (the railway companies) will be here in greater force than ever at the commencement...both the ability and the will to select shrewd and skillful agents to accomplish their purposes before Congress."18 From their beginning, railway companies... | |
 | Lewis Henry Haney - 1908 - 292 pages
...disturbing legislation. Mr. Buchanan said, "If you defeat them at this session, they (the railway companies) will be here in greater force than ever at the commencement...both the ability and the will to select shrewd and skillful agents to accomplish their purposes before Congress."18 From their beginning, railway companies... | |
 | Robert Sobel - 2000 - 436 pages
...when and where they were. ' In 1843, Senator James Buchanan of Pennsylvania denounced these pressures: If you defeat them at this session, they will be here...agents to accomplish their purposes before Congress. 4 1Recently the railroad has been compared with canals in several works. The most significant work... | |
 | 1911 - 972 pages
...same ardor as if they really believed themselves entitled to stand above the rest of the community. If you defeat them at this session, they will be here...both the ability and the will to select shrewd and skillful agents to accomplish their purposes before Congress. Thus, sir, I think I have demonstrated... | |
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If you defeat them at this session, they (the railway companies) will be here in greater force than ever at the commencement of the next. Their importunity will never cease whilst the least hope of success shall remain, and we have learned from our experience... 