Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — How Calhoun Was Outwitted. [ARTICLE]

How Calhoun Was Outwitted.

Ex-Senator George Wallace Jones of lowa, who is soon to issue his memoirs, represented Michigan, Wisconsin and lowa in the United States House and Senate. He tells a story of how, when lowa was admitted as a Territory, he used every effort to get John C. Calhoun not to fight it. without avail. Finally he induced his daughter to come to the Senate before the lowa bill was brought up. Arrived there, she was. on a given signal to the Senate gallery from him, to invite her father into the Congressional Library and keep him there until the bill hail passed the Senate. She did so to Ibe letter, and thus it was that lowa became a Territory and afterward a State.