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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 23: three months in Congress. (search)
bject, Object, and the resolution went over—as all resolutions which any member indicates a purpose to debate must do. So the resolution cannot be reached again this Session. Dec. 19th. Mr. Greeley made what the reporters styled a plain and forcible speech, on the tariff, in which he animadverted upon a passage of the Message, wherein the President had alluded to manufacturers as an aristocratic class, and one that claimed exclusive privileges. Mr. Greeley walked into the President. Dec. 22d. On this day appeared in the Tribune, the famous Congressional Mileage Expose. The history of this expose is briefly related by Mr. Greeley, in the Whig Almanac for 1850. Early in December, I called on the Sergeant-at-Arms, for some money on account, he being paymaster of the House. The Schedule used by that officer was placed before me, showing the amount of mileage respectively accorded to every member of the House. Many of these amounts struck me as excessive, and I tried to re