James Buchanan
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 206
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... demand that the said James H. Peck may be put to answer the high misdemeanors in office herein charged against him, and that such proceedings, examinations, trials, and judgments, may be thereupon had and given, as may be agreeable to law and justice. A. Stevenson, Attest Speaker of the House of Representatives. M. St. Clair Clarke, Clerk House of Reps. U. S. REPORT, MAY 4, 1830, OF PRESENTATION OF ARTICLE OF IMPEACHMENT TO THE SENATE.1 Mr. Buchanan, from the managers appointed on the part of this House to conduct the impeachment against James H. Peck, judge of the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri, reported: "That they did, this day, carry to the Senate, then in session as a high court of impeachment, the article of impeachment agreed to by this House on the 1st instant; and that they were informed that they would take proper measures relative to the said impeachment, of which the House would be duly notified." PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE, MAY 11, 1830, FOR THE BILL TO AMEND THE TARIFF LAWS.* Mr. Buchanan then proposed a substitute for the bill, which he had intimated, some time ago, he would offer, when in order-- a substitute which [he said] was, with very little exception, not his own. He had been [he said] for some time negotiating between the Secretary of the Treasury and the chairman of the Committee on Domestic Manufactures, to agree on some effectual plan which would be mutually agreeable and acceptable to all. The result had been the bill which he now offered in lieu of the bill before the committee. [The substitute embraces a variety of provisions for appointing assistant appraisers, &c., a correct copy of which could not be obtained.] 1Register of Debates, 21 Cong. I Sess. 1829-1830, VI., part 2, p....