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1509. CONGRESS, Cabinet Officers in.

—An attempt has been made to give further
extent to the influence of the executive over


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the Legislature, by permitting the heads of departments
to attend the House and explain
their measures vivâ voce. But it was negatived
by a majority of 35 to 11, which gives us
some hope of the increase of the republican
vote.—
To T. M. Randolph. Washington ed. iii, 491. Ford ed., vi, 134.
(Pa., Nov. 1792)