„Stephen Mallory” változatai közötti eltérés
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=== Jogalkotói tevékenysége ===
Az Egyesült Államok szenátusában végzett munkája nagyját tipikus, államának kedvező törvényhozási munka képzete. Felügyelete mellett a Szenátus elfogadott egy a Floridai vasutakat támogató, és egy a haditengerészetnek örökzöld tölgyerdő megvásárlását lehetővé tevő cikkelyt. Mindkét tervezetet elkaszálta azonban a képviselőház. Több sikert ért el a Szeminol indiánok ellen folytatott háború felülvizsgálatáról szóló törvénytervezeteivel, noha a vizsgált problémákat túldimenzionálta. Kárpótlást kínált az indián portyák által földönfutóvá válók számára és folytatta a bennszülöttek kitelepítését Floridából. Kezdeményezte továbbá, hogy Florida kikötőiben létesüljenek tengerészkórházak.
=== Munkája a Tengerészeti Bizottságban ===
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Mallory's first major speech in Congress was in favor of a return to flogging, which he argued was needed in order that a captain would be able to control his seamen in battle. His position was unpopular throughout the nation, and Congress refused to lift the ban.<ref>Durkin, ''Confederate Navy Chief'', pp. 52–55.</ref><ref>Mallory's remarks can be read in full: ''Congressional Globe'', 32nd Congress, 1st session, Appendix, pp. 108–119.</ref> His views on flogging, for good or ill, were forgotten when he turned his energies to the second of President Fillmore's proposals, that of reforming the officer corps of the Navy. He was by this time chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs,<ref>After 1853. Underwood, ''Mallory'', p. 29.</ref> and the law that Congress passed was recognized as coming from his hand. It established a Retirement Board of senior naval officers, who examined the qualifications of all other commissioned officers. Those who were deemed incapable or unworthy of their rank were placed on a retired list, the first compulsory retirement in the history of the U.S. Navy. By most accounts, the board did its work creditably, but many of the officers who were adversely affected did not agree. Among those who were forced into early retirement was [[Matthew Fontaine Maury]], too crippled to go to sea, but whose study of ocean currents formed the basis for the new science of oceanography. Maury and some of the other retirees enlisted other Senators to support their cases, and the debate was renewed. In the end, however, Mallory's views prevailed, a testimonial to his parliamentary skills. The enmity between Maury and Mallory lasted the remainder of their lives and distorted their performance in the Civil War when both men sided with the South.<ref>Durkin, ''Confederate Navy Chief'', pp. 70–83.</ref>
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