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With
it, however, was a provision to buy the Rochambeau Papers,
which had been sent to this county on the assurance of Mr.
Sherman, who was Chairman of the Committee on the Library,
that Congress would purchase them. There was also a provision
for buying the papers of Vans Murray, Envoy to France in Napoleon's
time; and for buying two other quite important manuscript
collections. When the bill got to the House, all these things
were stricken out. The Conference Committee had a great strife
over them, the House refusing to put any of them in, and the
Senate insisting upon all. At last they compromised, agreeing
to take them alternately, including the first one, rejecting
the second; including the third, rejecting the fourth, and
so on. In this lottery the Franklin Papers were saved, and
Mr. Sherman's Rochambeau Papers were stricken out, much to
his disgust. But he got an appropriation for them in a subsequent
Congress.
The Committee on Rules have the control of the Capitol, and
the not very important power of assigning the rooms to the
different Committees.


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