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“General, there is a difficulty; we have two brigadier-generals in the militia who are your seniors, and one of them, General Peirce, is now outside, I suppose waiting to see me to ask for the detail.”
“Well, Governor,” I said, “you know Brigadier-General Peirce,. and you know me. Isn't this a case where the officer should be appointed who is supposed to be most instructed in affairs with which he is to deal?”
“I suppose I can detail any brigadier,” said the governor.
“So do I,” said I.
While this conversation was going on, the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, Gen. Henry K. Oliver, came into the governor's room, and after salutation, said:--
“ Governor, as you requested, I have been examining the condition of the affairs of the treasury since the repeal of the emergency act, and I cannot find a single dollar appropriated for transporting these troops that you have ordered out, and other like expenses.
You will have to call an extra session of the legislature, and that will delay matters very ”
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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