The Covode Committee
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During the spring and summer of 1860, the Repubican 36th Congress through a select committee chaired by John Covode of Pennsylvania investigated the possible impeachment of President James Buchanan. [1]
While it was, for the most part, a crass (and partisan, it had three Republicans and one Democrat) attempt to embarrass the belegured President, the committee was surpisingly successful at rooting out fearsome amounts of corruption, treason and incompentence.
Buchanan sent at least two formal messages to Congress complaining of, not only what Cavode and company were doing, but denying it's very power to do so. In the long run, it found that Buchanan had not done anything to warrant impeachment, but that it was the most courrpt administration since the adoption of the US Constitution in 1789.
[edit] References
- ^ Baker, Jean H.: James Buchanan; Times Books, 2004
