ugh he gave it a reluctant
and disgusted support at the end. It was, in my judgment,
necessary to save the credit of the country at the time, and
a great improvement on the law it supplanted.

"The other, known as the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill, I suppose
he introduced by request. I doubt very much whether he read
it. If he did, I do not think he ever understood it. It
was totally reconstructed in the Judiciary Committee."

Mr. Sherman was delightful company. He had a fund of pleasant
anecdote always coming up fresh and full of interest from
the stores of long experience.

He was wise, brave, strong, patriotic, honest, faithful,
simple-hearted, sincere. He had little fondness for trifling
and little sense of humor. Many good stories are told of
his serious expostulation with persons who had made some
jesting statement in his hearing which he received with immense
gravity. I am ashamed to confess that I used to play upon
this trait of his after a fashion which I think annoyed him
a little, and which he must have regarded as exceedingly frivolous.

He used occasionally to ask me to go to ride with him. One
hot summer afternoon Mr. Sherman said: "Let us go over and
see the new electric railroad," to which I agreed. That was
then a great curiosity. It was perhaps the first street railroad,
certainly the first one in Washington which had electricity
for motive power. Mr. Sherman told his driver to be careful.
He said the horses were very much terrified by the electric
cars. I said: "I suppose they are like the labor reformers.
They see contrivances for doing without their labor, and they
get very angry and manifest displeasure." Mr. Sherman pondered
for a moment or two, and then said with great seriousness:
"Mr. Hoar, the horse is a very intelligent animal, but it
really does not seem to me that he can reason as far as that."
I told the General of it afterward, who was full of fun, and
asked him if he really believed his brother thought I made
the remark seriously; to which he replied that he had no doubt
of it; that John never had the slightest conception of a jest.

At another time, one very hot summer day, Mr. Sherman said:
"Hoar, I think I shall go take a ride; I am rather tired.
When a vote comes up, will you announce that I am paired with
my colleague?" I called out to Senator Rollins of New Hampshire,
who sat a little way off, and who kept the record of pairs
for the Republican side: "Rollins, th