He was fond of
violently denouncing the wicked Republicans on the floor of
the Senate, and in Committee. But his bark was worse than
his bite.
When the Kellogg case was investigated by the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, when I first entered the Senate,
Mr. Saulsbury rose in the first meeting of the Committee
and proceeded to denounce his Republican associates. He
declared they came there with their minds made up on the
case, a condition of mind which was absolutely unfit for a
grave judicial office, in the discharge of which all party
considerations and preconceived opinions should be banished.
He said we should have open minds to hear the arguments and
the evidence to be introduced, as if it were a solemn trial
in a court of justice. When he was in the midst of a very
eloquent and violent philippic, the Chairman of the Committee,
Bainbridge Wadleigh, said quietly, "Brother Saulsbury, haven't
you made up your mind?" Mr. Saulsbury stopped a moment, said,
"Yes, I have made up my mind," broke into a roar of laughter,
and sat down.
He was a confirmed and incorrigible bachelor.
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