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Speaker Clay named John W. Eppes of Virginia to chair the Committee on Ways and Means when the vehemence with which Langdon Cheves pled a merchants' case cost him his seat. Eppes, was a more orthodox Republican as befitted a man who was both the nephew and the son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson. His major actions as chairman concerned the attempt to recharter the Bank of the United States and the continuing problems of war finance. |
