of the principal Senators
who were there when I took my seat on March 4, 1877, or who
came into the Senate shortly afterward during that Congress.
Others I have mentioned in other places in this book.

William A. Wheeler, of New York, was Vice-President and President
of the Senate. On the Republican side were: William B. Allison
of Iowa, Henry B. Anthony and Ambrose E. Burnside of Rhode
Island, James G. Blaine and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, Blanche
K. Bruce of Mississippi, Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania, Roscoe
Conkling of New York, John A. Logan of Illinois, Henry L.
Dawes of Massachusetts, George F. Edmunds and Justin S. Morrill
of Vermont, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, John J.
Ingalls of Kansas, John P. Jones of Nevada, Stanley Matthews
and John Sherman of Ohio, John H. Mitchell of Oregon, Oliver
P. Morton of Indiana, Aaron A. Sargent of California, Henry
M. Teller of Colorado, Bainbridge Wadleigh of New Hampshire
and William Windom of Minnesota.

On the Democratic side were: Thomas F. Bayard and Eli Saulsbury
of Delaware, James B. Beck of Kentucky, Francis M. Cockrell
of Missouri, A. H. Garland of Arkansas, John B. Gordon of
Georgia, L. Q. C. Lamar of Mississippi, Matt Ransom of North
Carolina, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, William P. Whyte of Maryland,
M. C. Butler of South Carolina, William W. Eaton of Connecticut,
James B. Eustis of Louisiana, Francis Kernan of New York, J. R.
McPherson of New Jersey, and Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana.

Henry B. Anthony was the senior member of the Senate when
I entered it. When he died he had been a Senator longer than
any other man in the country, except Mr. Benton. He had
come to be the depository of its traditions, customs and unwritten
rules. He was a man of spirit, giving and receiving blows
on fit occasions, especially when anybody assailed Rhode Island.
He had conducted for many years a powerful newspaper which
had taken part in many conflicts. But he seemed somehow the
intimate friend of every man in the Senate, on both sides.
Every one of his colleagues poured out his heart to him. It
seemed that no eulogy or funeral was complete unless Anthony
had taken part in it, because he was reckoned the next friend
of the man who was dead.

He was fully able to defend himself and his State and any
cause which he espoused. No man would attack either with
impunity under circumstances which called on him for reply,
as he showed on some memorable occasions. But