 | Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science - 1889 - 744 pages
...into the Senate by Mahlon Dickerson, of New Jersey, then one of his devoted partisans ; and its design was to secure for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents in office, at the peril of displacement, and of five or ten times an equal number of ravenous office-seekers,... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 556 pages
...certain collecting officers, the real purpose was to secure for Mr. Crawford the inII.— 16 fluence of all the incumbents in office upon peril of displacement,...been referred, reported a bill accordingly ; on the 2 1st it was read the second time ; and on the Jth of May, after some unimportant amendments and without... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 568 pages
...certain collecting officers, the real purpose was to secure for Mr. Crawford the inII.— 16 fluence of all the incumbents in office upon peril of displacement,...Dickerson was ordered on the 2Oth of December. On the 20th of April the Finance Committee, to which it had been referred, reported a bill accordingly ; on... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 546 pages
...certain collecting officers, the real purpose was to secure for Mr. Crawford the inII.— 16 fluence of all the incumbents in office upon peril of displacement,...inquiry proposed by Mr. Dickerson was ordered on the 20th of December. On the 20th of April the Finance Committee, to which it had been referred, reported... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1897 - 504 pages
...the Secretary of the Treasury and of a majority of the Senate, and its design, as Mr. Adams says, " was to secure for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents in office, at the peril of displacement, and of five or ten times an equal number of ravenous office-seekers,... | |
 | 1900 - 526 pages
...the Secretary of the Treasury and of a majority of the Senate, and its design, as Mr. Adams says, " was to secure for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents in office, at the peril of displacement, and of five or ten times an equal number of ravenous office-seekers,... | |
 | 1900 - 470 pages
...of the Secretary of the Treasury and of a majority of the Senate, and its design, as Mr. Adams says, "was to secure for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents in office, at the peril of displacement, and of five or ten times an equal number of ravenous office-seekers,... | |
 | 1902 - 526 pages
...the Secretary of the Treasury and of a majority of the Senate, and its design, as Mr. Adams says, " was to secure for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents in office, at the peril of displacement, and of five or ten times an equal number of ravenous office-seekers,... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1902 - 406 pages
...the Secretary of the Treasury and of a majority of the Senate, and its design, as Mr. Adams says, " was to secure for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents in office, at the peril of displacement, and of five or ten times an equal number of ravenous office-seekers,... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1903 - 432 pages
...Mr. Crawford, Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose, as John Quincy Adams states, of securing "for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents...ravenous office-seekers eager to supplant them." ' The law itself vacates the offices, and this enables a President to displace satisfactory officers without... | |
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was to secure for Mr. Crawford the influence of all the incumbents in office, at the peril of displacement, and of five or ten times an equal number of ravenous office-seekers, eager to supplant them. 
