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public life are in the Senate, that Senators who went 

 to Washington poor have become rich ; and they have 

 seen its members do spiteful and mean things, like the 

 rejection of Mr. Hoar, one of the conspicuous men of 

 the time, simply because he had been ill-tempered with 

 the politicians when they came to bother him as At- 

 torney General. After rejecting Mr. Hoar we can 

 readily understand why it removed Mr. Sumner, the 

 best informed man in public life on foreign affairs, 

 from the committee, and gave the place to a gentleman 

 who probably does not know whether the Danubian 

 Principalities are in Europe or Asia Minor. 



" The Senate is no longer a compact representative 

 body. It does not represent even the States. In one 

 State a Senator is chosen by the money of a railroad ; 

 in another by his own money. One Senator is known 

 to be the agent of this interest ; another as the agent 

 of a second interest. No shrewd railroad manager 

 will be without his Senator. We should not like to 

 guess at the number on the books of Thomas A. Scott 

 or T. C. Durant or Dick Franchot. We know who 

 represents the Bank of California ; we should like to 

 know all who were owned by Jay Cooke and the 

 Northern Pacific. The glory of the old Senate has 

 departed, and we have some greedy, selfish cliques. 

 There is a small but mainly a feeble class of respect- 

 able men, like Frelinghuysen and Edmunds and An- 

 thony. Then comes the muscular, aggressive class, 

 with Carpenter, Morton, Chandler; the moneyed class, 

 like Cameron, Hamilton, Sprague, and Jones, and the 

 drift of adventurers from the Southern States, from 

 Florida and Alabama and South Carolina, who presume 

 to sit in the seats and vote themselves back pay as the 



