Excerpt from History of Congress, Biographical and Political, Vol. 2: Comprising a History of Internal Improvements (Rivers, Harbors, Etc;) From the Foundation of the Government to the Present Time; Embracing, Also, Historical Notices of Various Political Events, of Ocean Steam Navigation, of the Tea and Coffee Tax The history of Internal Improvements, to which the main portion of the following pages is given up, has excluded many matters of interest, biographical and political, connected with both houses of Congress, which were designed for the present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.