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Washburn of the Committee on Claims, Nathaniel P. Banks
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. These Committees with
the Committee on the Judiciary of which General Butler was
a member, and the Committee on Ways and Means, controlled
the policy of the House on all the great questions then interesting
the country. Samuel Hooper had the third place on the Committee
on Coinage, Weights and Measures. But he was its dominant
member and in a later Congress introduced the Bill for Reforming
the Currency, a wise and salutary measure. It is known,
however, among ignorant people in some parts of the country
as "The Crime of '73."
Sumner and Wilson are so well known to the American people
that it would be superfluous for me to attempt to describe
either elaborately. I have spoken of each at some length
elsewhere.
Charles Sumner held a place in the public life of the country
which no other man ever shared with him. He held a place
in the public life of the world shared by very few indeed.
He was an idealist. He subjected every measure to the inexorable
test of the moral law.


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