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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 57: attempts to reconcile the President and the senator.—ineligibility of the President for a second term.—the Civil-rights Bill.—sale of arms to France.—the liberal Republican party: Horace Greeley its candidate adopted by the Democrats.—Sumner's reserve.—his relations with Republican friends and his colleague.—speech against the President.—support of Greeley.—last journey to Europe.—a meeting with Motley.—a night with John Bright.—the President's re-election.—1871-1872. (search)
rty, than with the prosecutors, Secretary Bristow and Solicitor Wilson; Ante, p. 429, note. The investigations concerning general orders in New York and the Sanborn moiety contracts may be referred to in this connection. (Forty-third Congress, first session, House of Representatives Report, No. 559, Evidence, No. 264.) As to the safe burglaries, see New York Tribune, June 25, 1874 (ante, p. 429, note). Congress, after a prolonged investigation by a joint select committee, which reported June 16, 1874, abolished the existing government of the District of Columbia, chiefly for the purpose of removing A. R. Shepherd, who had obtained the chief control of its administration. To the public surprise, the President promptly nominated Shepherd as a member of the governing commission which the Act had created, and the Senate as promptly rejected the nomination by the decisive vote of six in favor to thirty-six against it. The New York Tribune, June 24, 1874, commented without reserve on the