e Blue Light State of Connecticut.'
The landlord stared. 'I am a deacon in a Calvinistic church.'
The landlord was evidently shocked. 'I was a member of the
Hartford Convention.' This was too much for the democratic
nerves of the landlord; he speedily departed, and left his
lodger to himself."

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[Title page]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF SEVENTY YEARS

BY
GEORGE F. HOAR

WITH PORTRAITS

VOLUME II.

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1903

[Table of Contents]
CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I
ELECTION TO THE SENATE

CHAPTER II
PRESIDENT HAYES

CHAPTER III
CABINET OF PRESIDENT HAYES

CHAPTER IV
ATTEMPT TO REOPEN THE QUESTION OF THE TITLE TO THE
PRESIDENCY

CHAPTER V
THE SENATE IN 1877

CHAPTER VI
LEADERS OF THE SENATE IN 1877

CHAPTER VII
COMMITTEE SERVICE IN THE SENATE

CHAPTER VIII
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL

CHAPTER IX
CHINESE TREATY AND LEGISLATION

CHAPTER X
THE WASHINGTON TREATY AND THE GENEVA AWARD

CHAPTER XI
THE PRESIDENT'S POWER OF REMOVAL

CHAPTER XII
FISHERIES

CHAPTER XIII
THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS BILL

CHAPTER XIV
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL
SUCCESSION BILL

CHAPTER XV
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S JUDGES

CHAPTER XVI
SOME SOUTHERN SENATORS

CHAPTER XVII
CUSHMAN KELLOGG DAVIS

CHAPTER XVIII
GEORGE BANCROFT

CHAPTER XIX
VISITS TO ENGLAND (1860, 1868, 1871)

CHAPTER XX
VISITS TO ENGLAND, 1892

CHAPTER XXI
VISITS TO ENGLAND, 1896

CHAPTER XXII
SILVER AND BIMETALLISM

CHAPTER XXIII
VISITS TO ENGLAND, 1899

CHAPTER XXIV
A REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

CHAPTER XXV
OFFICIAL SALARIES

CHAPTER XXVI
PROPRIETY IN DEBATE

CHAPTER XXVII
THE FISH-BALL LETTERS

CHAPTER XXVIII
THE BIRD PETITION

CHAPTER XXIX
THE A. P. A. CONTROVERSY

CHAPTER XXX
THE ENGLISH MISSION

CHAPTER XXXI
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND THE SYRIAN CHILDREN

CHAPTER XXXII
NATIONAL BANKRUPTCY

CHAPTER XXXIII
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

CHAPTER XXXIV
APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE

CHAPTER XXXV
ORATORY AND SOME ORATORS I HAVE HEARD

CHAPTER XXXVI
TRUSTS

CHAPTER XXXVII
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE WORCESTER BAR

CHAPTER XXXVIII
SOME JUDGES I HAVE KNOWN

CHAPTER XXXIX
POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS FAITH

CHAPTER XL
EDWARD EVERETT HALE

APPENDIX
THE FOREST OF DEAN (BY JOHN BELLOWS)

INDEX

[Second Title page]

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTY YEARS

[Text]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SEVENTY YEARS

CHAPTER I
ELECTION TO THE SENATE

I have every reason to believe that my constituents in