, or any designation,
nomination or appointment heretofore made by virtue of the
provisions thereof.

"Approved, March 3, 1887."

But the blood of my Republican associates was up. I got
a few Republican votes for my Bill. It passed the House
by a vote of 172 to 67. Every Massachusetts Representative
voted for the Bill, as did Speaker Reed. But in general
the votes against it were Republican votes. Governor Long
made an able speech in its favor.

In the Senate three Republicans only voted with me. Among
the nays were several Senators who, as members of the House,
had voted for a Bill involving the same principle in 1869.
Mr. Evarts, though absent at the time of this vote, declared
his approval of the Bill in debate; and so, I think, did Mr.
Dawes, although of that I am not sure. Mr. Edmunds opposed
it with all his might and main.

Mr. Sherman, always a good friend of mine, remonstrated with
me. He asked me with great seriousness, if I was conscious
of the extent of the feeling among the Republicans of the
Senate at my undertaking to act in opposition to them on
this and one or two other important matters, to which he
alluded. I replied that I must of course do what seemed to
be my duty, and that in my opinion I was rendering a great
service to the Republican Party in getting rid of the controversy
in which the people sympathized generally with the Democrats,
and that I thought the gentlemen who differed from me, would
come to my way of thinking pretty soon. The result proved
the soundness of my judgment. I do not think a man can be
found in the Senate now who would wish to go back to the law
which was passed to put fetters on the limbs of Andrew Johnson.
I have asked several gentlemen who voted against the repeal
whether they did not think so, and they all now agree that
the measure was eminently wise and right. The opposition
to the statute of 1887 was but the dying embers of the old
fires of the Johnson controversy.

CHAPTER XII
FISHERIES

If, on looking back, I were to select the things which I
have done in public life in which I take the most satisfaction,
they would be, the speech in the Senate on the Fisheries
Treaty, July 10, 1886, the letter denouncing the A. P. A., a
secret, political association, organized for the purpose of
ostracizing our Catholic fellow-citizens, and the numerous
speeches, letters and magazine articles against the subjugation
of the Philippine Islands.

I do not