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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
ime in civil business that he addressed the senator several times as chairman of the judiciary committee, saying that as they were to come before that committee, he wished to speak with the senator concerning them. Sumner, partly to divert attention from the treaties (as to which he did not care to commit himself in advance), and partly to take advantage of an opportunity to say a word for his friend J. M. Ashley, recently removed from the governorship of Montana, turned the conversation to Ashley's case. After this interruption, the President recurred to the treaties, but gave no definite idea as to what they were, the senator even supposing that they might provide only for a protectorate in the Gulf, always a favorite idea of his own. In the Senate, Dec. 21, 1870; Congressional Globe, p. 253. New York Tribune, April 5, 1871. The interview closed by his saying: Mr. President, I am an Administration man, and whatever you do will always find in me the most careful and candid consi