but wait
i dont get your sadness either
this news just prolongs the pleasure of your questing
doesnt it
so happily we still have somewhere to go & grow on this errand
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "lowellgmcmanus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> 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