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The Daily Dispatch: April 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Federal Congress. (search)
suffered for their country. Our Medical Department needs reorganization and enlargement to enable it to attend properly to its vastly increased duties. Albert G. Higgins was brought before the bar of the House to answer for contempt in falling to appear before the Select Committee on Government Contracts. The Speaker ask would do if he could not go that day. When he went the next day he found the committee broken up. Mr. Dawes (Mess.) offered a resolution that, whereas, Albert G. Higgins had since appeared before the committee and answered all the questions put to, him, he be discharged on the payment of the fees chargeable on the warrant. After a conversation, the resolution was amended by striking out the requirement to pay the fees, and adopted, there being nothing to show that Higgins acted in contempt. Mr. Stevens (Pa.), from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill making further appropriations for certain civil expenses of the Government.