As detailed in my January post below, I requested from my
Congressman a copy of the congressional speech cited in footnote 62a
on page 171 of BUS&SS-1964 as the source of the author's take on the
divisibility of Texas. The footnote in question was curiously
dropped from BUS&SS-1976.

Yesterday, I received the requested copy of page 11459 of the
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of June 17, 1930, as cited by both date and
page in the footnote. The page reports a debate on disabled
veterans' pensions, a debate in which Representative Garner of Texas
took no part. I was also sent pages 11016-11018 from earlier on the
same day. On 11016, Representative Garner uttered twelve words
regarding a private bill for a Maryland dairy farm employee. On
pages 11017 and 11018, he spoke nearly 40 sentences regarding the
appropriation for the District of Columbia.

Nowhere is there any mention of the divisibility of Texas. This is
probably why the spurious footnote was removed from the 1976
edition, but we are sadly no closer to understanding the reasoning
of Van Zandt (or one of his predecessors) on the topic.

Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> I have requested assistance from the local office of Congressman

Jim McCrery

> (R-Louisiana) in retrieving a copy of the 1930 speech by John N.

Garner in the

> House of Representatives regarding the divisibility of Texas. I

gave them the

> date and page from the Congressional Record, so I think they'll

come through for

> me. A few days should tell.
>
> I will report fully on whatever I might learn.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA