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It does not appear that any chairman has been so elected save in the original case, where the committee was carrying out the wishes of the speaker. One contingency, however, that of death, was not taken into consideration, but in providing for it in the amendment of the rules, 1888, the power of the speaker was again enhanced by adding the following addition to the rule: And in the case of the death of a chairman, it shall be the duty of the speaker to appoint another. On April 21, 1806, Mr. James Sloan, after a bitter attack on John Randolph, moved, for the purpose hereafter of keeping the business of the House of Representatives within its own power, that all standing committees shall be appointed by ballot and choose their own chairman. This motion was tabled, and being renewed by Mr. Sloan in the next session was defeated by the very close vote of 42 ayes to 54 noes. The question was revived at the beginning of the next Congress, Oct. 28, 1807, by Thomas Blount, b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
March 4, 1805, to March 3, 1809. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, President. George Clinton, New York, Vice-President. Treaty of peace with Tripoli......June 3, 1805 Abiel Holmes's American annals first published......1805 Ninth Congress, first session, convenes......Dec. 2, 1805 Speaker of the House, Nathaniel Macon, North Carolina. Commission authorized to lay out a national road from Cumberland, Md., to the Ohio River......March 29, 1806 First session adjourns......April 21, 1806 Leander, a British naval vessel, fires into an American coaster, the Richard, off Sandy Hook, and kills the helmsman......April 25, 1806 Great Britain issues an Order in council declaring the whole coast of Europe, from the Elbe to Brest, in France, under blockade......May 16, 1806 Napoleon issues the Berlin Decree......Nov. 21, 1806 Second session convenes......Dec. 1, 1806 Treaty with Great Britain signed by commissioners, but the President did not even send it to the S