Abstract:
Letters of General Joseph R. Hawley to Charles Dudley Warner, The Hartford Daily Times, February 05, 1930. Hawley had lost the senatorship, and no doubt his failure to be chosen was a deep disappointment to him. But he still had his seat in congress, which was in special session because democrats, who were now in the majority, had held up appropriation bills in the regular session ending March 4, '79. With two terms behind him Hawley was very much at home in the house. Speaker Randall had given him a place on the important appropriations committee. The republicans had caucused and had agreed to resist strenuously legislation which they deemed objectionable. One such bill was that changing the (election laws with reference to the use of troops at the polls, Hawley made a vigorous speech on this, upholding the position that no government could be stable unless respect for it was created by the knowledge that it had the power if necessary to use force.
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