s integrity. He has no children pensioned at the public
charge. He will leave behind him no wealth gained directly
or indirectly from his public opportunities. He will go back
to a humble and simple dwelling not exceeding in costliness
that of many a Massachusetts merchant or farmer. But honor,
good fame, the affection of his fellow citizens, the friendship
of his fellow Senators will enter its portals with him, and
there they will dwell with him until he leaves it for his
last home."

Mr. Dawes was a very powerful and logical reasoner. He was
a very successful advocate when at the Bar and he was always
a strong antagonist in debate and very effective as a campaign
speaker. He stuck closely to his subject. He had a gift
of sarcasm with which he could make an adversary feel exceedingly
uncomfortable, although he rarely indulged in it. He almost
never attempted eloquence, except so far as it is found in
his grave and effective statement of his case. One sentence
of his which I myself heard deserves to be remembered among
the best things in American eloquence. Speaking to thirty
or forty people at a club in Boston of the power and greatness
of the Republic, he said: "If we cannot say of our country,
as Mr. Webster said of England, 'that her morning drum-beat
circles the earth with an unbroken strain of her martial airs,'
we can at least say that before the sun sets upon Alaska he
has risen upon Maine."

In my first Congress the leadership was shared between my
colleague, Mr. Dawes, and Robert C. Schenck of Ohio. General
Schenck was an old Whig. He had served with distinction in
the time of Webster and Clay and Calhoun and Corwin. He had
the gift of vigorous, simple Saxon English. He was a very
powerful debater, a man of wisdom and of industry. He was
Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, and carried through
to success, against odds and difficulties, an important tariff
bill. At one time he found the measure, which he had introduced,
overloaded and destroyed by amendments. He abandoned it in
disgust, declaring that it had been "nibbled to death by
pismires." But he afterward introduced the measure in another
form, and came off successful and triumphant in the end.

He was afterward sent abroad by General Grant to succeed Mr.
Motley. He got into trouble there by giving a letter of recommendation
which was unwisely used to promote an enterprise known as
the Emma Mine. He gave the recommenda