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But again, by dint of lobbying and even more by threatening to break up the Congress, Tilak carried the day, and a resolution was passed in the form upon which he insisted to the effect that the boycott movement was legitimate.
On the other hand, Benton, Silas Wright, of New York, and John Forsyth, of Georgia, made a most spirited defense of Jackson and of the cause of the people, as they insisted. In the House the situation was reversed, and all Biddle's energy and resolute lobbying failed to secure a favorable vote.
Not only was she holding antislavery meetings, making speeches, and distributing leaflets whenever and wherever possible, but she was also lobbying in Albany for a personal liberty bill to protect the slaves who were escaping from the South.
I was doing some reporting, and a little lobbying, in the Senate, at the beginning of March, and, as I have said, ran down with a party of friends to see the Tomb of Washington, curse the neglect that hung over it like a nightmare, and execrate the meanness which sold off bouquets from the garden, and canes from the woods, at a quarter each, by the hands of a pack of dirty slaves, to the hands of a pack of dirtier curiosity-hunters.
There is, of course, perfectly proper and even necessary lobbying. But then you are a lawyer, are you not? We all know instances of brilliant lawyers and powerful men who have thus sold their birthrights for messes of pottage.
I have spent ten thousand dollars in lobbying that measure through, and charged it all to improvements' on the Bulletin. Sounds like I had joined the ranks of the 'boodlers, don't it? Well, I don't give a cooky for ethics so long as I know I'm right. I'd have been a simp, as Biff Bates calls it, to go among that crowd of hungry law jugglers with kind words and the ten commandments.
If any one has told you that I am about to engage in lobbying, they have lied to you." "Wouldn't engage in lobbying, would you?" the Honourable Hilary asked, with the air of making a casual inquiry. Austen flushed, but kept his temper. "I prefer the practice of law," he replied. "Saw you were associatin' with saints," his father remarked.
Finally, in 1814, Congress passed an indemnification act, under which the eminent Bostonians, after ten years more lobbying, succeeded in getting an award from the United States Treasury of $1,077,561.73. No. 14, and Senate Documents, Twenty-fourth Congress, 1836-37, Vol. ii, No. 212.
For half an hour the straw and hay made a fierce blaze, and the troopers turned to and saved the ranch, as Sancho knew they would, and the actual damage was but slight. Some day Sancho would present a claim against the government for twenty times the amount and get such portion of it as was not required by the local agent and lobbying aids who rushed it through congress.
If any one has told you that I am about to engage in lobbying, they have lied to you." "Wouldn't engage in lobbying, would you?" the Honourable Hilary asked, with the air of making a casual inquiry. Austen flushed, but kept his temper. "I prefer the practice of law," he replied. "Saw you were associatin' with saints," his father remarked.
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