of the White House
whom I have known. He was very popular with those who came into
contact with him, and especially was he popular with the members
of the House and Senate. I have always thought that he should have
been accorded the honor of a nomination for President in 1884; as
a matter of fact most of the Republican Senators agreed with me,
and many of us went to the National Convention at Chicago, determined
to nominate him; but we soon found there was no chance, and that
the nomination would go to Blaine.

President Arthur was very kind to me in the way of patronage. He
not only recognized my endorsement for Federal offices in my State,
but gave me a number of appointments outside. One of the first of
these was the appointment of Judge Zane as Territorial Judge of
Utah. President Arthur showed his confidence in me by appointing
Judge Zane, without any endorsement, excepting a statement of his
qualifications, written by me on a scrap of paper in the Executive
Office. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary called on the
President for the endorsements of Judge Zane, and Senator Edmunds
was quite disgusted when the President could send him only this
little slip of paper written by me, which was all the President
had when he made the appointment. Senator Edmunds hesitated to
recommend his confirmation. There was no question about Judge
Zane's qualifications. He had been a circuit judge in our State
for many years. I saw Senator Teller, whom I knew, and who knew
something of Judge Zane, and asked him to help us, as he could do,
being then Secretary of the Interior. On one occasion I spoke to
Teller about Judge Zane, and purposely spoke so loud that Senator
Edmunds could hear me. I said, among other things, there had not
been a man nominated for Territorial Judge in the country who was
better qualified for the position. Judge Zane's nomination was
soon reported from the committee and confirmed. He made a great
record on the Bench and did much to break up the practice of
polygamy. He is still living, a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah.

I entered the Senate at a very uninteresting period in our history.
The excitement and bitterness caused by the Civil War and Reconstruction
had subsided. It was what I would term a period of industrial
development, and there were no great measures before Congress.
The men who then composed the membership of the Senate were honest
and patriotic, trying to do their duty as