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Book, page 31 / 54 had cost Great Britain to have German princes marrying into the Royal family. The Senate, therefore, incontinently passed the bill. Mr. Morrill introduced a neat little swindle, which does equal credit to his hand and heart, providing that the United States should have the free use of all patents granted under it. He said this was to discourage that pernicious class of men, the inventors. In many branches of industry, such as arms, the Government was the only customer of the inventor. In those cases, the inventor's gray hairs would be brought immediately to the grave. And inasmuch as the Government had a finger in almost every body's pie, the future FULTONS and GOODYEARS would starve to death before the completion of their diabolical devices. Some land-grabs were rushed through, when Mr. SAULSBURY objected. He said nobody made any thing out of this except the Western Senators. He called upon the men of the Eastern States to stand up for their share. He had a little game in the interest of his own constituents. It was no chimerical railway. It was a good, substantial, practical concern. He demanded six million acres in behalf of the Delaware Balloon Navigation Company. If this demand were not complied with, it would show that the Senate were actuated by the basest personal motives. HOUSE. The gentle JULIAN insisted upon proposing his sixteenth or seventeenth amendment. He said that he understood several women intended to vote, and he introduced this to preserve his domestic peace. Mr. JENCKES, for the forty-fifth time, called up his Civil Service bill. Mr. BUTLER, for the thirty-seventh time, introduced a bill to annex San Domingo. Mr. KELLEY and Mr. SCHENCK raved a neat but not new duett, "Give us Tariff or give us Death." Mr. LOGAN gave a fine rendering of his famous bass solo, "The Tariff be Hanged." Mr. SCHENCK intimated that Mr. LOGAN was an insect. At first he said he
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