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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 47: freedmen's aid societies and an act of congress creating a Bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands (search)
operations and consequences of the great war. The Honorable Thomas D. Eliot, member of the House from Massachusetts, whom, after personal they always did to Henry Wilson and Charles Sumner in the Senate. Eliot and Wilson were never extremists. They were wisely progressive; if they would take one, and bide their time for further advance. Mr. Eliot, the latter part of January, 1863, began his open work by a Houseure with argument, with ridicule, and with abundant sarcasm. But Mr. Eliot was at his best. He pleasantly answered every objection and earnhey went were good, and were developed from the first draft which Mr. Eliot had introduced in the House more than two years before. This Aough examination of emancipations like ours in other countries by Mr. Eliot of Massachusetts, and his singular perseverance in bringing his bhe most part to large centers of population, was not forgotten by Mr. Eliot's committee, so that one paragraph of the law demanded the issue
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 52: President Johnson's reconstruction and further bureau legislation for 1866 (search)
; that it was extravagantly expensive, there being $11,745,--000, according to the commissioner's estimates for the current year, and likely under the bill to be double that amount-greater than the entire yearly administration of John Quincy Adams. The Senate did not get a two-thirds vote to overcome the veto, several senators having changed their attitude regarding it, so that Trumbull's bill failed to become a law. But in the House the persistent chairman of the Freedmen's committee, Mr. Eliot, very soon introduced a new Bureau bill, from which he had removed several objections made by those senators who refused to vote for the first bill over the veto. The duration he fixed at two years; he left out the sea island clause, and he reduced the acres of public lands to 1,000,000. This measure went through both Houses and was vetoed like the others for similar reasons. But this time both Houses passed the measure over the President's veto, and it became a law July 16, 1866. The
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Index (search)
75, 76, 83-85, 92, 97, 123, 132, 137-139. Dunlap, John, II, 378, 379. Dunnell, Mark H., I, 143. Duryea, Abram, I, 140. Dwight, Henry Otis, II, 511. Eager, C. F., 586. Early, Jubal, I, 147, 160, 163, 260, 332, 358, 390, 391, 400, 416, 428, 429. Easton, L. C., II, 96, 97. Eaton, A. B., II, 250, 257. Eaton, James D., 11, 474. Eaton, John, II, 179, 215, 225, 232, 251. Edward, Prince of Wales, I, 98, 99. Edwards, L. A., II, 295. Eeles, Cushing, II, 483. Eliot, Thomas D., II, 198-201, 204, 282. Elliot, W. L., II, 56. Ellsworth, E. Elmer, I, 104. Elvans, J. R., II, 419. Elzey, Arnold, 1, 163. Eskiminzin, Chief, II, 548, 551. Estes, L. G., II, 35. Etowah, Crossing of the, II, 534-540. Europe, Trip to, II, 493-512. Evans, J. R., II, 318, 319. Evans, N. George, II, 147, 154-156, 173. Everett, Carroll S., I, 38. Ewell, Richard S., I, 261, 262, 264, 386-388, 390-392, 400, 404, 416, 417, 420, 421, 426. Ewing, Hugh, I, 302.