zen, or the title to an object of so
much desire as a seat in the Senate. This evidence is not
only unworthy of respect or credit, but it is in many instances
wholly irreconcilable with undisputed facts, and Mr. Kellogg
has met and overthrown it at every point.

GEORGE F. HOAR,
ANGUS CAMERON,
JOHN A. LOGAN.

The Democratic majority presented their report, without asking
to have it read. Then we of the minority presented ours,
and had it read. It attracted the attention of the Senate
and of the country. My report contains but a few sentences.
That of the Democratic minority occupies eight columns of
very fine print in the Congressional Record. The result was
that some of the Southern Democrats, including Mr. Bayard
of Delaware, General Gordon of Georgia, General Wade Hampton
of South Carolina, and Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, refused to
support their associates in the extreme measure of unseating
a Senator when nothing had happened to affect the judgment
which seated him, except that the majority of the Senate had
changed. Some of the Democratic gentlemen, however, while
resting upon the old judgment of the Senate, and while refusing
to set that aside, thought the Democratic charges made out
on the evidence, and that Mr. Kellogg's conduct and character
deserved the severest denunciation. Senator Pendleton, of
Ohio, however, with a courage and manliness that did him infinite
credit, after stating what his Democratic brethren said: "I
am bound to say that I have read the evidence carefully, and
there is nothing in it that in the least warrants any imputation
upon the integrity of that Senator."

In speaking of my Committee service, perhaps I ought to say
that I was appointed one of the Regents of the Smithsonian
Institution in the year 1881. I liked the position exceedingly.
I was very much interested in the work of the Institution,
and enjoyed meeting the eminent scholars and men of science
who were its members. After I had been a member a year or
two a very eminent Republican Senator complained that I was
getting more than my share of the prominent places in the
gift of the Senate, and specified the Regency of the Smithsonian
Institution as an instance. I thought there was great justice
in the complaint, and accordingly I resigned and Justin S.
Morrill was put in my place. It was a very fortunate thing.
Mr. Morrill's influence secured the construction of the National
Museum building, which I do not t