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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?1866-1867. (search)
– 252. He desired the Senate to remain so as to pass, with other measures, Boutwell's resolution to prevent the President removing district commanders without the consent of the Senate, or the recommendation of the commanding general, instancing Sheridan as likely to be removed from Louisiana. (July 19; Works, vol. XI. p. 424.) The President, as the bill was not acted upon, removed Sheridan ten days later. While at home, in June, he attended a municipal festival at Arlington, formerly West Cambridge, where he spoke briefly on the historical associations of the place. June 17, 1867; Works, vol. XI. pp. 361-364. At the session in July the Republican senators, in a caucus, agreed to limit the business of legislation to the removal of obstructions to the execution of the acts of reconstruction; and this agreement was carried out by the adoption of a rule to that effect in the Senate. Sumner, believing that legislation for the protection of the freed men and on other subjects w