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[1236] Niles, XXVI, 54-62.

[1237] For example, steamboat construction on the Ohio alone almost doubled in a single year, and quadrupled within two years. (See table in Meyer-MacGill: _History of Transportation in the United States_, etc., 108.)

[1238] 1 Hopkins's _Chancery Reports_, 151.

[1239] _Ib._ 198.

[1240] 3 Cowen, 716-17.

[1241] 3 Cowen, 731-34.

[1242] _Ib._ 750.

[1243] _Ib._

[1244] 3 Cowen, 753-54.

[1245] This bill had been proposed by Senator Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky at the previous session (_Annals_, 18th Cong. 1st Sess, 575) as an amendment to a bill reported from the Judiciary Committee by Senator Martin Van Buren (_ib._ 336).

[1246] _Debates_, 18th Cong. 2d Sess. 527-33.

[1247] _Ib._ 588.

[1248] _Ib._ 609.

[1249] _Ib._ 614.

After considerable wrangling, the bill was reported favorably from the Judiciary Committee (_ib._ 630), but too late for further action at that session.

[1250] _Debates_, 19th Cong. 1st Sess. 845.

[1251] Four days after the House adopted Webster's bill (_ib._ 1149), he wrote his brother: ”The judiciary bill will probably pa.s.s the Senate, as it left our House. There will be no difficulty in finding perfectly safe men for the new appointments. The contests on those const.i.tutional questions in the West have made men fit to be judges.” (Webster to his brother, Jan. 29, 1826, _Priv. Corres_.: Webster, I, 401.)

[1252] _Debates_, 19th Cong. 1st Sess. 417-18.

[1253] _Ib._ 419.

[1254] _Ib._ 420-21.

[1255] _Debates_, 19th Cong. 1st Sess. 423-24.

[1256] _Ib._ 436.

[1257] _Ib._ 442. Rowan's amendment was defeated (_ib._ 463). Upon disagreements between the Senate and House as to the number and arrangement of districts and circuits, the entire measure was lost. In the House it was ”indefinitely postponed” by a vote of 99 to 89 (_ib._ 2648); and in the Senate the bill was finally laid on the table (_ib._ 784).

[1258] 12 Wheaton, 420.

[1259] Taney, leading counsel for Maryland, had just been appointed Attorney-General of that State, and soon afterwards was made Attorney-General of the United States. He succeeded Marshall as Chief Justice. (See _infra_, 460.)