The Civil-Service and Cuban Questions: Remarks of Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, in the House of Representatives, January 11 and 20, 1898 (Classic Reprint)
The Civil-Service and Cuban Questions: Remarks of Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, in the House of Representatives, January 11 and 20, 1898 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Civil-Service and Cuban Questions: Remarks of Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, in the House of Representatives, January 11 and 20, 1898 Mr. Simpson of Kansas. If you will get the extension, I will answer the question after I get the extension. [laughter.] N ow, Mr. Chairman, there is another reason. There is a great army of office seekers knocking at the door for admission. Their Representatives here, to whom they look to secure office for them, must satisfy them in some way. So these speeches are made_ ...
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Excerpt from The Civil-Service and Cuban Questions: Remarks of Hon. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, in the House of Representatives, January 11 and 20, 1898 Mr. Simpson of Kansas. If you will get the extension, I will answer the question after I get the extension. [laughter.] N ow, Mr. Chairman, there is another reason. There is a great army of office seekers knocking at the door for admission. Their Representatives here, to whom they look to secure office for them, must satisfy them in some way. So these speeches are made_ solely and entirely for home consumption and nothing else. [laughter.] We witnessed here at the first Opening of Congress after the holidays the very sudden appearance of the gentleman from Ohio [mr. Grosvenor] upon the scene. The track was cleared, everything was side-tracked, and he was given the right of way and two hours to make a speech to use in the interest of Mr. Hanna out in Ohio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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