He agreed to have a bill drawn on that principle.
He brought it to me afterward.

I went over it very carefully, inserting some additional securities for the Government.
I then took it to the next meeting of the Committee, moved a reconsideration of the vote of the previous week.

That was carried by a bare majority of one vote.

I then moved the new bill as a substitute for the old one.

It was adopted.
The bill passed the House and Senate under which the Eads jetties were constructed and vessels drawing over twenty- eight feet of water passed freely up and down to and from New Orleans.