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Sentences starting with congress

Congress capitulated on the 1st of June, 1860, and instructed Mr. Floyd to overhaul those papers again, and pay that bill. [5]
Congress is not so important a feature as it used to be. [4]
Congress knows this perfectly well, and I have long felt hurt that this quite proper and earned expression of gratitude has been merely felt by the House and never publicly uttered. [5]
Congress knows it perfectly well and I have long felt hurt that this quite proper and earned expression of gratitude has been merely felt by the House and never publicly uttered. [5]
Congress is to organize to-morrow. [7]
Congress at its last session, acting upon the recommendation, did provide for reorganizing the system in California, and it is believed that under the present organization the management of the Indians there will be attended with reasonable success. [7]
Congress had only just assembled, and delays were to be feared. [5]
Congress adjourned and her bill had failed to pass the Senate. [5]
Congress has inflicted frightful punishments on its members--now you know that. [5]
Congress intimated plainly enough, that they considered him almost a stain upon their body; and without waiting ten days, hardly, to think the thing over, the rose up and hurled at him a resolution declaring that they disapproved of his conduct! [5]

Sentences ending with congress

That is what you will get for pretending to be a member of Congress. [5]
With love to you all Yrs ever, S. L. C. Of course the petition never reached Congress. [5]
He looked forward with delight to the time when he could again have his private garden, grow his own lettuce and tomatoes, and not have to get so much "sarce" from Congress. [4]
I can't see why you ever sent him to Congress. [9]
In 1846 I was once elected to the lower House of Congress. [7]
How fond he was of his family, and how charitable about Congress! [4]
Indiana largely for us,--Governor, it is said, by fifteen thousand, and eight of the eleven members of Congress. [7]
I commend it to the continued attention and fostering care of Congress. [7]
Entertaining these objections to the bill, I feel myself constrained to withhold from it my approval and return it for the further consideration and action of Congress. [7]
I immediately telegraphed to have transcripts of the records in all cases forwarded to me, which transcripts, however, did not reach me until two or three days before the present meeting of Congress. [7]

Short sentences using congress

A member of congress. [5]
Congress had indefinitely adjourned. [7]
Disloyal to Congress! [9]
Congress of Prehist. [1]
Judge Douglas says "by Congress! [7]
Yes, Congress. [4]

Sentences containing congress two or more times

In a word, the whole thing, at a dash of the pen, is at last put in the power of Congress; for if they do not have this popular sovereignty until Congress organizes them, I ask if it at last does not come from Congress? [7]
The legislation of the last session of Congress has beneficially affected the revenues, although sufficient time has not yet elapsed to experience the full effect of several of the provisions of the acts of Congress imposing increased taxation. [7]
That part of the brief never got before Congress, nor has Congress ever yet had a hint of forgery existing among the Fisher papers. [5]
Strange as it may seem, the Fishers let Congress alone for five years--or, what is perhaps more likely, failed to make themselves heard by Congress for that length of time. [5]
I have a letter from a Congressman this morning, and he says Congress couldn't be persuaded to bother about Canadian pirates at a time like this when all legislation must have a political and Presidential bearing, else Congress won't look at it. [5]
That all State laws, if there be such, really or apparently in conflict with such law of Congress, ought to be repealed; and no opposition to the execution of such law of Congress ought to be made. [7]
They add that if Congress cannot do so itself, Congress cannot confer any power to do so; and hence any effort by the Territorial Legislature to do either of these things is absolutely decided against. [7]
I will tell him, though, that he now claims to stand on the Cincinnati platform, which affirms that Congress cannot charter a National Bank, in the teeth of that old standing decision that Congress can charter a bank. [7]
But without the action of Congress they could say nothing; and Congress said "No. [7]

More example sentences with the word congress in them

Should any of you doubt this, you have but to read the "Address to the King" of our Congress, then sitting in Philadelphia. [9]
Everybody here says you can't get a thing like this through Congress without buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery, but I think I've taught them a thing or two--if I could only make them believe it. [5]
Missouri would not yield the point; and Congress that is, a majority in Congress--by repeated votes showed a determination not to admit the State unless it should yield. [7]
There was no work to do; that was all finished; this was but the second session of the last winter's Congress, and its action on the bill could have but one result--its passage. [5]
The oration began with a lengthy tribute to the resources and history of his state, and ended by a declaration that the speaker was in Congress at no man's bidding, but as the servant of the common people of his district. [9]
The good Congress will repay me. [9]
I think Congress will pass it and settle the vexed question permanently. [5]
But Judge Douglas will have it that all hands must take this extraordinary decision, made under these extraordinary circumstances, and give their vote in Congress in accordance with it, yield to it, and obey it in every possible sense. [7]
I hope Congress will extend to them the charity which they have failed to get from me. [5]
In the Congress which passed it there were two of the "thirty-nine. [7]
In that Congress were three of the "thirty-nine" who framed the original Constitution. [7]
The original members were selected by an invitation from the American Social Science Association, which acted under the power of its charter from the Congress of the United States. [4]
When the vote was taken upon it, a majority of all present in the Congress of the Confederation voted for it; but there were so many absentees that those voting for it did not make the clear majority necessary, and it was lost. [7]
I suppose it was intended by Congress that this government should execute the act in question without dependence upon any other government, State, city, or county. [7]
A certain respect was due to a member of Congress and the Rajah of Clovelly. [9]
One of them was a young member of Congress who had been making exhaustive studies of the situation in Italy, France and England, and the other one of our best-known writers, both bound for London. [9]
What we do want is the conclusive evidence that respectable citizens of Louisiana are willing to be members of Congress and to swear support to the Constitution, and that other respectable citizens there are willing to vote for them and send them. [7]
In 1850 a very clever gentleman by the name of Thompson Campbell, a personal friend of Judge Douglas and myself, a political friend of Judge Douglas and opponent of mine, was a candidate for Congress in the Galena District. [7]
Ohio largely for us, with all the members of Congress but two or three. [7]
All were agreed upon one point, however: if Congress would make a sufficient appropriation, a colossal benefit would result. [5]
Thus, away back to the Constitution, in the pure, fresh, free breath of the Revolution, the State of Virginia and the national Congress put that policy into practice. [7]
He was delegate to the Chicago Fair Congress of Religions. [5]
You have but to take the oath of allegiance to the Continental Congress to become free, even as we are, to enjoy the blessings of that American government under which we live and for which we fight. [9]
They persuaded Congress to pass an act requiring the Auditor to re-examine their case. [5]
I'm sorry not to oblige you, Jethro; but these are matters which a member of Congress must look after pretty closely. [9]
It is gratifying to know that the patriotism of the people has proved equal to the occasion, and that the number of troops tendered greatly exceeds the force which Congress authorized me to call into the field. [7]
If we had to keep the sun kindled up and going by private corporate action, or act of Congress, and to be taxed for the support of customs officers of solar heat, we should prize it more than we do. [4]
Campbell was elected to Congress, and served out his term. [7]
Perhaps I ought to care for Congress and that sort of thing. [5]
S-stick pretty close to business, don't you, since the people sent you to Congress? [9]
Page, you ought to be in Congress. [4]
Allow no one to assume the functions of confiscating property, under the law of Congress, or otherwise, except upon orders from here. [7]
When was the time to come (he asked) when the States in which the public lands were situated would compose a majority of the representation in Congress, or anything like it? [7]
So believing, I thought the public mind will never rest till the power of Congress to restrict the spread of it shall again be acknowledged and exercised on the one hand or, on the other, all resistance be entirely crushed out. [7]
And they all thought like Hans, and loved peace, and hated the Congress. [9]
The report on this point might be useful to Congress. [7]
Now Congress declares this ought never to have been, and the like of it must never be again. [7]
This is the third time that Judge Douglas has assumed that he learned about these resolutions by Harris's attempting to use them against Norton on the floor of Congress. [7]
And so I think my friend the Judge is equally at fault when he charges me at the time when I was in Congress of having opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war. [7]
I think the thing should be pushed forward, so that, if possible, its mature work may reach here by the meeting of Congress. [7]
On another evening they were at the illumination of the Congress Spring Park. [4]
He said: "All these people are in the next Congress. [5]
We went down there, later, and saw that novel congress of the wild peoples, and plowed here and there through it, and concluded that it would be worth coming from Calcutta to see, even if there were no Kinchinjunga and Everest. [5]
In this Congress there were sixteen of the thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution. [7]
When I read the Washington correspondence I am proud of my country, to see how many Apollo Belvederes, Adonises, how much marble brow and piercing eye and hyacinthine locks, we have in the two houses of Congress. [4]
And yet, when the untitled myriads of his own country put out their hands in welcome to him and greet him, "Well done," through the Congress of the United States, that is the crown that is worth all the rest to him. [5]
The recommendation of the Secretary for an organization of the militia upon a uniform basis is a subject of vital importance to the future safety of the country, and is commended to the serious attention of Congress. [7]
However, I made the remark that Congress had as yet no army, let alone a navy. [9]
To carry out the provisions of the act of Congress of the 15th of May last, I have caused the Department of Agriculture of the United States to be organized. [7]
So Congress denied the petition of the heirs of George Fisher in 1832, and did not pay them a cent. [5]
I suppose if the people wanted decent members of congress they would elect them. [5]
In December, 1847, the new Congress assembled. [7]
But some of the members who were not in the Congress that voted it say that it is forfeited. [4]
The resolution in the language above quoted was adopted by large majorities in both branches of Congress, and now stands an authentic, definite, and solemn proposal of the nation to the States and people most immediately interested in the subject-matter. [7]
He thought of the Honorable Heth's reform speech in Congress, and laughed loudly in the echoing woods. [9]
The General paid the fine, and then the matter rested for nearly thirty years, when Congress refunded principal and interest. [7]
I recommend to the favorable consideration of Congress the interests of the District of Columbia. [7]
By the Constitution, the executive may recommend measures which he may think proper, and he may veto those he thinks improper, and it is supposed that he may add to these certain indirect influences to affect the action of Congress. [7]
The compiler of the Dictionary of Congress states that while preparing that work for publication, in 1858, he sent to Mr. Lincoln the usual request for a sketch of his life, and received the following reply: Born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. [7]
So also, obeying the dictates of prudence, as well as the obligations of law, instead of transcending I have adhered to the act of Congress to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes. [7]
He would have the citizen conform his vote to that decision; the member of Congress, his; the President, his use of the veto power. [7]
In this shape the bill passed both branches of Congress and became a law. [7]
Ex officio, as the agent of the Chippering Mill and a man of substance to boot, he was "in" politics, hail fellow well met with and an individual to be taken into account by politicians from the governor and member of congress down. [9]
I now add that, with the hearty concurrence of Congress, I would yet be pleased to construct a road, both for the relief of these people and for its continuing military importance. [7]
This fact shows that when the power to make improvements "was fully asserted and exercised," the Congress did keep within reasonable limits; and what has been done, it seems to me, can be done again. [7]
The apprehension, therefore, that the public lands were in danger of being wrested from the General Government by the strength of the delegation in Congress from the new States, was utterly futile. [7]
It is believed that nothing has been done beyond the constitutional competency of Congress. [7]
Get me the thanks of Congress. [5]
Perhaps you can tell me why, if a man admits that it is wrong for a state to abandon this Union, he cannot call upon Congress for men and money to bring her back. [9]
Many votes were taken, by yeas and nays, in both branches of Congress, upon the various phases of the general question. [7]
Indeed, they would take up a straw and pick their teeth like a member of Congress. [5]
Changes from State systems to the national system are rapidly taking place, and it is hoped that very soon there will be in the United States no banks of issue not authorized by Congress and no bank-note circulation not secured by the Government. [7]
Then they came swarming up out of the fertile swamps of Florida with their same old documents, and besieged Congress once more. [5]
John Paul little suspected that he was a member of the Congress. [9]
I therefore respectfully suggest that Congress might aid both the army and naval services by a definite provision on this subject which would at the same time be equitable to the communities more especially interested. [7]
It cannot become such without the concurrence of, first, two thirds of Congress, and afterwards three fourths of the States. [7]
The necessity of such a navy-yard, so furnished, at some suitable place upon the Atlantic seaboard has on repeated occasions been brought to the attention of Congress by the Navy Department, and is again presented in the report of the Secretary which accompanies this communication. [7]
These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity; trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them. [7]
But he has spurned the French commission they have offered him, saying that of the Congress is good enough for him. [9]
The President having spoken, Philip rose, and, bowing to the Congress with dignity and composure, left the chamber with Count Carignan Damour. [11]
The afternoon we spent in sober talk, Mr. Bordley giving me much sound advice, and writing me several letters of recommendation to gentlemen in Congress. [9]
I must contrive something fresh to get back to Congress on. [5]
He might do something for the Congress in the East. [9]
My reason for so doing is that I have approved an act of the same title passed by Congress after the passage of the one first mentioned for the express purpose of correcting errors in and superseding the same, as I am informed. [7]
Be pleased to signify this to the respective Houses of Congress. [7]
If, however, it shall not pass, I suppose the whole subject will be one of the most pressing and important for the next Congress. [7]
I have regularly sent you the Congressional Globe and Appendix, and you cannot have examined them, or you would have discovered that they contain every speech made by every man in both houses of Congress, on every subject, during the session. [7]
You will be sent to Congress. [5]
If Louisiana shall send members to Congress, their admission to seats will depend, as you know, upon the respective Houses, and not upon the President. [7]
The visit of Senator Dilworthy had become of more importance to her, and it by and by bore the fruit she longed for, in an invitation to visit his family in the National Capital during the winter session of Congress. [5]
He lived to see his Proclamation of Emancipation embodied in an amendment of the Constitution, adopted by Congress, and submitted to the States for ratification. [7]
No wonder they scorn the Congress as weak and impotent. [9]
I do not say I might not, as a member of Congress, vote for it. [7]
I do not say Congress might not with propriety pass a law on the point, just such as General Fremont proclaimed. [7]
He was a rising barrister and man of note among our patriots, and member of the Lower House; a diffident man in public, with dark, soulful eyes, and a wide, white brow, who had declined a nomination to the Congress of '65. [9]
To speak truth, Richard, I am off to Congress with a portmanteau full of recommendations. [9]
I mean the reports of proceedings in Congress, in conventions, assemblies, and conferences, public conversations, lectures, sermons, investigations, law trials, and occurrences of all sorts that rise into general importance. [4]
It has been repeatedly discussed in Congress and by the public press. [7]
Estimates for the remaining three quarters of the year and for the financial year 1863, together with his views of ways and means for meeting the demands contemplated by them, will be submitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury. [7]
He describes these Reformers in his own good-naturedly half-satirical way:-- "They defied each other like a congress of kings; each of whom had a realm to rule, and a way of his own that made concert unprofitable. [6]

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