[1] Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 2d Session, Part I.,
pp. 646-649.
When the bill reached the Senate it was referred to the
Judiciary Committee, and by them to a sub-committee of which
Mr. Stewart, Senator from Nevada, was chairman. He retained it
until late in the session, and upon his advice, the committee
then recommended its indefinite postponement. The bill was
thus disposed of.
[2] 6th Wallace, 50.
[3] 15 Stats. at Large, 44.
[4] "It fills us with shame that these reproaches can be uttered,
and cannot be repelled." The words are found in Ovid's
Metamorphoses, Book I., lines 758-9. In some editions the last
word is printed _refelli_.
THE MOULIN VEXATION.
Soon after my appointment to the Bench of the U.S. Supreme Court, I
had a somewhat remarkable experience with a Frenchman by the name of
Alfred Moulin. It seems that this man, sometime in the year 1854
had shipped several sacks of onions and potatoes on one of the mail
steamers, from San Francisco to Panama. During the voyage the ship's
store of fresh provisions ran out, and the captain appropriated the
vegetables, and out of this appropriation originated a long and bitter
prosecution, or rather persecution, on the part of Moulin, who
proved to be not only one of the most malignant, but one of the most
persevering and energetic men I have ever known.
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