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Republican John Sherman of Ohio came to Washington, DC, in 1855 and stayed in public office for nearly 50 years. Sherman's memoirs indicate that the thirty-sixth Congress consciously avoided the seething issue of slavery. As chairman of Ways and Means, Sherman was preoccupied with appropriation bills. His committee experimented with delegating work to individual members. This practice later formed the basis of the panel's formal use of subcommittees during the Civil War. From Sherman's committee came the Morrill Tariff bill, enacted in 1861, the last important measure reported by the Ways and Means before the Civil War.. |
