Life And Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden United States Senator From M
Life And Public Services of William Pitt Fessenden United States Senator From M
Francis Fessenden
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Nor did it diminish the force of the argument that every one owed his personal service. He would be willing to give up the idea of com mutation if they would enforce the draft and give up the system of enormous bounties and put it on the ground of compulsion alone. If the sum fixed for commutation was too small, he would be willing to enlarge it, but they must avoid the risk of making such tremendous drafts upon what after all lay at the bottom of the whole. Mr. Fessenden advocated an amendment... which was of great importance to the coast towns which had furnished sailors to the navy, to count such enlistments toward mak ing up their quotas. The position of chairman of the committee on finance which obliged Mr. Fessenden to watch every proposition 226 WILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN to appropriate money, seemed on some occasions to place him in the attitude of always resisting measures intro duced by other senators, or reported from the commit tees. The proposition to fix the pay of colored troops elicited much warm debate and provoked one of those collisions with Mr.
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