Ninety Southern Congressmen issued the "Southern Manifesto" condemning the Court decision as a usurpation of state powers.
Newspapers and Congressmen charged that the Klan had violated the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Thirteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
In spite of the professions often made, most men have a poor opinion of congressmen and legislators, and feel that their own conscience is a much higher guide for them than the law.
These may be business men and congressmen and deacons in the church.
Congressmen and had aided the rebellion; (5) those who left U.
But the majority of congressmen were never able to adopt, in its entirety, the theory that the rebellion had utterly destroyed the States and left them mere territory.
As women from many states lobbied for the Sixteenth Amendment, reporting a growing sentiment everywhere for woman suffrage, as they received in the press respectful friendly publicity, Congressmen began to take notice.
Susan, however, had come to the conclusion that concentration on woman suffrage was imperative in order to unite all women under one banner and build up numbers whichCongressmen were bound to respect.
Year by year she continued her Washington conventions, convinced that these gatherings in the national capital could not fail to impress Congressmen with the seriousness of their purpose.
These rooms were filled with congressmen watching the strange business.
According to radicals we are still governed by massed and concentrated finance-capital, and according to certain Congressmen we are living under a labor-dictatorship.
As there were a number of American congressmen in London, I asked: "Was he a congressman?
The Republican congressmen who were at the convention were practically unanimous for Sherman, and their leader was Uncle Joe Cannon.
Then Joe produced a piece of sweet chocolate apiece, while the girls called him "a darling thing," and the congressmenlit their cigars and lay back on the grass, while Joe and Val packed up again.
Beside the two congressmen and their wives, there were two girls about twenty, and a boy about Joe's age.
The two weary congressmen and Bob now reappeared, with armfuls of evergreen boughs, and the Ranger went to show them how to lay their beds.
It was hard, too, for after those seven days on the trail and in camp, even though he was only the camp cook and they were congressmen and congressmen's families, he felt as if they were all old friends.
Panting, covered with perspiration, the two congressmen were about ready to quit.
Their mothers were hanging forward over the horns of their saddles, thoroughly tired out, and the two congressmen looked nearly as fagged as the women.
Yes, it's a special party--a couple o' congressmen and their wives and families.
Bob and the two congressmen came alone, and in the centre of the slide, Bob made a big snowball, and let it roll down.
It took theCongressmen themselves longer to arrive from their various states, however, than they had expected.
Subsequently, the legislature redistricted properly, and at the next election Congressmen from Virginia were chosen by, and represented, particular Congressional districts.
The system thus created imposes upon the President the duties of an employment agent, and at the same time engages Congressmen in continual occupation as office brokers.
Many difficult situations were created by contentions among Congressmen over appointments.
Although liberal provision for granting pensions had been made by general laws, numerous special applications were made directly to Congress, and congressmen were solicited to secure favorable consideration for them.
After serving his time there, he posed as a neglected old soldier and succeeded in obtaining letters from sympathetic Congressmen commending his case to the attention of the pension office, but without avail until the Act of 1890 was passed.
On the other hand, the rebuffs which Democratic Congressmen received in the matter of pension legislation were, it must be admitted, peculiarly exasperating.
Many Congressmen were thunderstruck by the display of words which, as they were purely technical terms, the Congressmen in question could not understand.
It was an issue that politicians dodged and candidates evaded, that all parties avoided, that publicists feared, and that presidents and congressmen tried to hide under the tenuous fabric of their compromises.
Thus Congressmen who are not of the Speaker's party may be kept from making themselves heard upon important measures.
When a bill is before the House, the chairman of the committee in charge of the measure usually hands the Speaker a list of Congressmenwho are to be heard upon the floor.
To what extent, if to any, should Congressmen consider the needs of their local district as of more importance than the needs of the nation as a whole?
As a result, the tariff has become a sectional problem, in the solving of whichCongressmen have too often considered as paramount the economic interests of the particular locality which they represent.
Its congressmen were quite as aggressive as those from the North, and they were accused of being imperious in manner, when demanding that a stop should be put to Abolition petitions, and Abolition literature going South in the mails.
When one considers the sacrifices we Congressmen make in order to serve the nation, it is hard to believe that unthinking persons begrudge us a little pleasure.
The Anti-Saloon League was the power of which Congressmenand Legislaturemen alike stood in fear.
Weak-kneed Congressmenand Legislaturemen succumbed not only to fear of the ballots which the League controlled but also to fear of another kind.
The two Congressmendid not go through the doors with me.
We had a lot of Congressmen with us and a lot of dignitaries, and there was a lot of juggling around, which Mr. O'Brien was more involved with than I was, as to where Senator Yarborough and the Vice President and the Congressman sat.
But because of the number of Congressmen and the dignitaries involved.
Now, at that point, you knew that--from theCongressmen and from others, that the President had been shot?
Congressmen Henry Gonzalez, Jack Brooks, Homer Thornberry and Albert Thomas came into the room where Vice President Johnson waited.
When you refer to the VIP cars, those would include the Congressmen and the other gentlemen you referred to before?
Were you accompanied all the way up to this point by the two Congressmen you mentioned before?
There are Congressmen elected year after year who never think of dissipating their energy on public affairs.
The more faithfully the Division represents what is not otherwise represented, either by the Japanese or American ambassadors, or the Senators and Congressmen from the Pacific coast, the better Secretary of State he will be.
It is noticeable that while there was a Republican loss of seven hundred in the first district, compared with the vote for Congressmen in 1864, in the second district there was a gain of one hundred over the vote of two years before.
What patronage the president and his cabinet retain, and what offices congressmen are by usage entitled to fill is not definitely settled.
His speech on this matter would not be bad reading for some of the pension-jobbing congressmen of the present day, and their supporters; but as concerned these French claims he could have been easily answered.
There were Congressmen and Senators, who, from time to time, made efforts to second the work of Jefferson.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "congressmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
