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TABLE OF MICHIGAN SENATORS 
 IN CLASS II. 
 
 1835-1841. John Norvell. Attended January 26, 1837. 
 
 1841-1847. William Woodbridge. 
 
 1847-1853. Alpheus Felch. 
 
 1853-1859. Charles E. Stuart. 
 
 1859-1861. Kinsley S. Bingham. Died October 5, 1861. 
 
 1861-1865. Jacob M. Howard. Elected by Legislature to 
 fill the unexpired term of Kinsley S. Bing- 
 ham, deceased; term began October 6, 1861. 
 
 1865-1871. Jacob M. Howard. 
 
 1871-1877. Thomas W. Ferry. 
 
 1877-1883. Thomas W. Ferry. 
 
 1883-1889. Thomas W. Palmer. 
 
 1889-1895. James McMillan. 
 
 1895-1901. James McMillan. 
 
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF THE PUBLIC LIFE 
 
 OF JAMES McMillan. 
 
 1838, May 12, Born at Hamilton, Ontario. 
 
 1874, Member Detroit Board of Estimates. 
 
 1876, Member of the Republican State Central Committee. 
 
 1879, Chairman Republican State Central Committee, to 
 succeed Zachariah Chandler. 
 
 1881-3, Member of the Detroit Board of Park Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 1885, Director of the Detroit Museum of Art ; appointed by 
 the City. 
 
 1886, Chairman Republican State Central Committee. 
 
 1889, Elected to the United States Senate for the term of 
 six years, ending March 3, 1895. 
 
 1890, Chairman Republican State Central Committee, 
 1892, Chairman Republican State Central Committee. 
 
 1894, Chairman Republican State Central Committee. 
 
 1895, Elected to the United States Senate for the term of 
 six years, ending March 3, 1901. 
 
THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 ON Wednesday, January 2, 1889, being the day 
 prescribed by the Constitution of the State of 
 Michigan for the biennial meeting of the Legislature, 
 the Senate was called to order by the Lieutenant- 
 Governor, James H. Macdonald; and Lewis M. Miller 
 was elected Secretary. In the House, Gerrit J. Die- 
 kema, of the First District of Ottawa County, was 
 elected Speaker, and Daniel L. Crossman was elected 
 Clerk. 
 
 At eight o'clock on the evening of that day, in 
 pursuance to a call signed by a majority of the 
 Republican senators and representatives, the Repub- 
 lican Legislative Caucus was held in the hall of the 
 House of Representatives, for the purpose of placing 
 in nomination a candidate for the office of Senator 
 in the Congress of the United States, for the full 
 term of six years, beginning March 4, 1889. 
 
 The floor of the hall was filled with members of 
 the Legislature and prominent men from aU parts of 
 the State; and a large number of ladies occupied 
 seats in the crowded galleries. 
 
10 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 The caucus was called to order by the Clerk of the 
 House ; and on motion of Hon. J. Wight Giddings, a 
 senator from the Twenty-eighth District, the Speaker 
 of the House was chosen to preside. 
 
 Upon taking the Chair, Mr. Diekema spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 Gentlemen of the Caucus: I thank you for this 
 honor, and I congratulate you upon the auspicious 
 circumstances under which we meet. 
 
 Never before in the history of Michigan have the 
 Republicans been so united in aim, and so harmoni- 
 ous in effort. With peace pervading our ranks, and 
 high hopes animating our breasts, we can enjoy the 
 fruits of our recent victory with unalloyed pleasure. 
 
 I trust that we may have the wisdom to realize 
 what grave responsibilities our victory imposes and 
 what great opportunities it affords. 
 
 We were united, and, therefore, we were victori- 
 ous. The object of this caucus is well known to you 
 all. Two years ago our predecessors met here for a 
 similar purpose. The result of their deliberations has 
 proved the wisdom of their choice, and I believe that 
 you will now reflect credit upon yourselves, and will 
 honor your constituents, by nominating a candidate 
 for Senator in the Congress of the United States who 
 will be a worthy successor to such men as Cass, 
 Chandler, Howard, Ferry, and Conger, whose names 
 
QERRIT J. BIEKEMA. 11 
 
 have been household words in Michigan, and whose 
 public records fill some of the brightest pages of our 
 country's history. 
 
 Again thanking you for this honor, I await your 
 further pleasure. 
 
 Nominating speeches were then made by the fol- 
 lowing senators and representatives : 
 
 Lewis G. Palmer, senator from the Twenty-third 
 
 District, comprising Mecosta and Ottawa' 
 
 counties. 
 RoswELL Leavitt, scuator from the Twenty-ninth 
 
 District, comprising Antrim, Charlevoix, 
 
 Grand Traverse, Leelanaw, and Manitou 
 
 counties. 
 Philip T. Colgrove, senator from the Eleventh 
 
 District, comprising Barry and Eaton 
 
 counties. 
 William A. Bakee, representative from the First 
 
 District of Berrien County. 
 John Edward Tyrrell, representative from the 
 
 First District of Jackson County. 
 Thomas B. Dunstan, senator from the Thirty-second 
 
 District, comprising Baraga, Houghton, Isle 
 
 Royale, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon counties. 
 John V. B. Goodrich, representative from the 
 
 Second District of Ottawa County. 
 
12 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 Aethuk D. Gilmore, senator from the Fifth Dis- 
 trict, Lenawee County. 
 
 RussEL R. Pealee, representative from St. Joseph 
 County. 
 
 The gentlemen named spoke as follows : 
 
 Me. palmer. Mr. Chairman, under the an- 
 nouncement I arise to present the name of a can- 
 didate for the high and honorable office of United 
 States Senator. I shall ask the indulgence of the 
 caucus but for a few moments, and few words shall 
 express my purpose. First of all, however, let me 
 congratulate the State and the Nation on the bright 
 prospects of our future as a free, united, and liberty- 
 loving people, based on the glorious victory of No- 
 vember 6. That conflict was, in my judgment, 
 Mr. Chairman, the second Appomattox in American 
 history ; for as in 1865, when armed rebellion gave 
 up its sword to the world's greatest military com- 
 mander and the savior of the Union, so in 1888 did 
 the Republican party, the party of equal rights 
 and human justice, fight and win the battle for the 
 free, and again save the Union. Thus, as it had 
 pleased the God of battles to lead us on to victory 
 with the bayonet and the bullet, so have the 
 dictates of loyalty prompted us to do justice with 
 the ballot. We fought with no weapon save the 
 
LEWIS G. PALMER. 13 
 
 sword of American honor; we carried no shield but 
 protection to American homes and industries. We 
 have at last driven the entering wedge deep into 
 the heart of the " Solid South," and now we are to 
 carry into that great and misguided section of our 
 country ideas of industry and business methods so 
 long needed. 
 
 Two years ago it was my privilege to indorse the 
 candidacy of Senator Stockbridge, and his faithful 
 and able services for his State have fully justified our 
 action, and have shown the wisdom of our choice. 
 The time was, when our Nation demanded warriors 
 and brilliant politicians, but now the actual needs of 
 a reunited country require the counsel and direction 
 of shrewd, energetic, and successful business men — 
 men of sterling integrity of purpose and undoubted 
 patriotism. Such a man, Mr. Chairman, I have now 
 the honor to place in nomination as the worthy suc- 
 cessor of the senator who has carried into the su- 
 preme council of the Nation scholarship and ability 
 of the highest order, and who retires at his own re- 
 quest from the cares of public life to the quiet of his 
 home, with the grateful thanks of his countrymen. 
 You ask me to name my candidate. The State has 
 already named him, and I am but the poor medium 
 through whom the people, the press, and the country 
 bring here the glad tidings, and bid me make the 
 formal presentation. 
 
14 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 The vast and varied business enterprises of Michi- 
 gan, her forges and factories, her railroads and mines, 
 her grand institutions of learning and her noble char- 
 ities, all bear the stamp of his genius and benevo- 
 lence, and with one accord they ask his recoguition 
 now. When Michigan was threatened with a division 
 of her territory, he it was who bound the Peninsulas 
 together with iron bands, and kept the State intact. 
 Recently, when the white-winged messenger plucked 
 the fairest flower of his fireside, the State bowed 
 with him and shared in his great grief, and though 
 weighed down by the deep affliction, and thus taken 
 from the active leadership of his party, he yet carried 
 and kept his State from the " doubtful column " by 
 his assuring words, " the State shall not be lost." 
 
 And now, Mr. Chairman, we write his name high 
 on Michigan's roll of honor, to be handed down to 
 history with one of the brightest records that go to 
 make up the richest treasures of our State ; there, to 
 be read with such honored names as Cass, Howard, 
 Zachariah Chandler, and Alger, the name of James 
 McMillan shall shine, one of the brightest stars in 
 Michigan's proud diadem. 
 
 In behalf of every poor and honest boy that strug- 
 gles for a foothold in the world's great strife, in 
 behalf of the grandest government upon which Grod's 
 sun shines, in behalf of the best and purest political 
 organization on this or any other continent, I nomi- 
 
RO SWELL LEAVITT. 15 
 
 nate the first and only choice of Michigan for United 
 States Senator, James McMillan. 
 
 Mk. LEAVITT. Mr. Chairman, in rising to sec- 
 ond the nomination of James McMillan, it is not my 
 purpose to make anything like a set speech ; and had 
 my purpose been otherwise, I should now, after the 
 eloquent and appropriate remarks of the gentleman 
 who has preceded me, consider such speech, on my 
 part, wholly unnecessary. 
 
 The circumstances under which we have assembled 
 are, I believe, unprecedented in the political ex- 
 perience of this State, and are, at least, extremely 
 unusual in any State. For months, the name of 
 James McMillan has been prominently before the 
 people as the candidate of the Republican party 
 for the office of United States Senator; and during 
 all that time no one of his own party has appeared 
 in the political arena to contend against him for 
 the distinguished honor, and not one fact or argu- 
 ment has been in any way urged against him either 
 from the rostrum or the press, unless we assume 
 that the bare statement that he is a millionaii-e be 
 an argument against him. On the other hand, we 
 have, from every quarter, repeatedly heard his praises 
 sounded by people in every walk of life. With a 
 personal experience extending over a wide range 
 of social and business conditions, including every 
 
16 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 gradation from the ordinary wage-worker to the 
 millionaire, and retaining a feeling of sympathy and 
 fellowship with all the people with whom he has as- 
 sociated during each stage of this progression, he 
 seems preeminently the representative and embodi- 
 ment of the principles of our free institutions : prin- 
 ciples which repel the theory of any classification 
 among men, excepting such classification as they 
 shall, by their own acts, make for themselves, re- 
 gardless of property and heredity. 
 
 And in a government like ours, where the ad- 
 vancement and prosperity of the people so largely 
 depend upon the general prosperity of our numerous 
 and complex business interests, and where the pros- 
 perity of these business interests depends so much 
 upon protective legislation, it seems highly appro- 
 priate that an element so little represented in Con- 
 gress as is the business element, should be recognized 
 at this time in making our choice of candidate for 
 the office of United States Senator. 
 
 Were I disposed here and now to debate the pro- 
 priety of the nomination of James McMillan, it is 
 already too late ; the people have made the nomina- 
 tion without a dissenting voice, and it only remains 
 for this caucus to ratify and formally proclaim the 
 nomination so made. And in view of all these cir- 
 cumstances, unless, as I do not expect, some other 
 name shall be presented to the caucus, I suggest that 
 
PHILIP T. GOLGROVE. 17 
 
 when this nomination shall be made, it be made by 
 acclamation. 
 
 Mr. COLGROVE. Mr. Chairman, seldom indeed, 
 in the history of our State, have its people been 
 more united upon the recipient of the high honor 
 we are convened to bestow. James McMillan! 
 What a wealth of admiration the name contains. 
 He is indeed the prince of men. His whole life 
 has been a poem of love to this State. With a 
 ripe business experience, he is a chivalric gentle- 
 man, a kind-hearted, true friend. His heart is ever 
 open to the recitals of the trials and the sorrows 
 of the unfortunate, and he sympathizes with " every 
 man who stands erect and can see in his mirror the 
 image of his God." He has been known to many of 
 us for years as a business man of great capacity, but 
 upon a closer and more intimate acquaintance we are 
 compelled to say with another, " I have known him 
 long, but far too little." He is a man of the people. 
 He has ties and traditions in common with all who 
 started at the foot of the ladder. The materials with 
 which he builded were at the command of every 
 citizen within our borders — ambition, Jwnesty, and 
 integrity. His friends do not claim that in oratory 
 and scholarly eloquence he is a Chandler or a 
 Howard. Few States, indeed, have produced their 
 equals. The great emergencies that developed these 
 
18 THE GAUCU8 OF LS80. 
 
 men and appealed to the patriotism and loyalty of 
 our people are of yesterday, and will not return 
 with the morrow. The smoke of the Appomattox 
 has long since mingled with the mists of the Virginia 
 vales. The South is beginning to accept the words 
 of the lamented Garfield, that in the war for the 
 Union they were everlastingly and eternally wrong, 
 and the North was everlastingly and eternally right. 
 
 Our victories to-day, then, are the victories of 
 peace. The questions to be now solved by the Na- 
 tional Congress are business questions — the adjust- 
 ment of the splendid machinery of government, that 
 the burden of taxation shall be equal and not exces- 
 sive. Who can more successfully deal with these 
 problems than the gentleman named ? He is one of 
 those men of whom the distinguished gentleman who 
 has filled that high office has said: "He carries ab- 
 stract ideas of justice and generosity into politics 
 and makes a government of opinions possible, thus 
 averting the evils which follow in the train of enact- 
 ments on tradition observed in violation of the grow- 
 ing moral sentiment of Christendom." He holds and 
 has earned a proud position in the hearts of our peo- 
 ple. He stands for Michigan. 
 
 When it began to be suggested by jealous neigh- 
 bors that there was no bond of interest between the 
 Peninsulas, and that there should be a division of 
 our State, Mr. McMillan solved the problem. He 
 
PHILIP T. COLGBOVE. 19 
 
 said, "Let us bind the Upper Peninsula to the 
 Lower with bands of steel," and the Duluth, South 
 Shore and Atlantic raih-oad was built, and the Upper 
 Peninsula, rich in precious metals, material wealth, 
 and Repuhlican faith, is now bound to us, and we to 
 it, by ties that will be severed only when the stars 
 go out. 
 
 No other man has been more prominent in develop- 
 ing the resources of Michigan than Mr. McMillan has 
 been. His brilliant career speaks more eloquently 
 of his ability than any words of mine can speak. 
 He is a broad-minded, liberal, public-spirited citizen. 
 He is a leader of men; he draws us to him, and 
 we are held. 
 
 Some one has said, that in a government of the 
 people a leader should be a teacher ; he should carry 
 the torch of truth. Mr. McMillan is a teacher who 
 has taught us not only the problem of success, but 
 the enjoyment of it. He believes the highest happi- 
 ness is attained by alleviating the sorrows of the op- 
 pressed. The beautiful hospital he has erected free 
 to the poor, needy, and sick, attests his concern for 
 the unfortunate poor. " To pity distress is human ; 
 to relieve it is God-like." 
 
 Mr. McMillan is a man for whom there need be 
 no apology here or elsewhere. God grant that when 
 some future Plutarch shall weigh the great men of 
 Michigan, he do not put into one scale the pandering 
 
20 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 demagogues who appeal to the prejudices of the mul- 
 titude of the unfortunate, and in the other men like 
 Bagley, Alger, and McMillan, whose wealth has been 
 but a store-house to which the hungry and naked 
 have come many, many times, and have never come 
 in vain. Mr. Chairman, he is a man whom we 
 delight to honor, and in supporting his nomination 
 for this important trust, I feel that I am voicing the 
 sentiments not only of the people of my own district, 
 but also of the people of our entire State, and I trust 
 when all shall have been said that is desired, we 
 will do him still further honor by nominating him 
 by acclamation. 
 
 Mr. baker. Mr. Chairman, as a member of the 
 House, I feel it is our duty to keep the Senate from 
 outdoing us in anything that is good ; and, as there 
 have already emanated from that body several good 
 speeches in favor of a good man for nomination by 
 this caucus, to represent this great State in the 
 Senate of the United States, I desire on the part 
 of the House to keep the ball rolling in the same 
 direction; therefore, I beg leave to throw in a few 
 remarks. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, I somehow overlooked the fact that 
 at this meeting there would be a feast of reason as- 
 sociated with a flow of oratory, and the very eloquent 
 speech made by the honorable Senator who, to-night, 
 
WILLIAM A. BAKER. 21 
 
 is occupying my seat, has staggered me, so that I 
 scarcely know how to proceed. I am, naturally, a 
 little nervous to-night, having just terminated a long 
 canvass, in which I became entangled in the jaws of 
 defeat. I am also somewhat embarrassed by the fact 
 that a seat has been given to me here among the sage 
 Senators ; but. Gentlemen of the Caucus, my admira- 
 tion for the man who has been placed in nomination 
 by the whole press of the State, and by these gentle- 
 men who have preceded me, is so great that I will 
 allow nothing to deter me also from having a say in 
 this matter. Gentlemen, two years ago I had the 
 pleasure of helping to nominate a candidate for Sen- 
 ator from my own congressional district ; and, by the 
 way, gentlemen, we have some notoriety at the pres- 
 ent time from the fact that the people of the United 
 States recognize in our congressman a man capable 
 of presiding over that great body of which he is one 
 of the most prominent members. I say again, Mr. 
 Chairman, that two years ago this body honored my 
 congressional district by nominating that big-heart- 
 ed, noble business man, Francis B. Stockbridge, for 
 United States Senator ; and now, gentlemen, as the 
 only reelected member of the House from the Fourth 
 Congi-essional District, I feel it my duty, and it gives 
 me pleasure, to second the nomination of that other 
 noble Republican and great business man from the 
 eastern part of our State, James McMillan. 
 
22 THE CAUCUS OF IS SO. 
 
 It is but fitting that this great business State 
 should be represented by great business men. No 
 other State in the Union has so great and varied in- 
 dustries as ours. The choicest minerals, in inex- 
 haustible quantities, find lodgment in her bosom ; 
 her hundreds of harbors along her almost intermi- 
 nable miles of lake coast are whitened with the sails 
 of commerce. Almost every city, village, and hamlet 
 within her borders is a manufacturing center — a busy 
 mart of industry. Nothing can be more appropriate 
 than that such a State should be represented by great 
 business men in the Senate of the United States, 
 and, when we get James McMillan down there by 
 the side of Francis B. Stockbridge, no State in the 
 Union can produce another pair that will outrank 
 them for business ability and enterprise. 
 
 Grentlemen, the nomination that you will make 
 here to-night will give satisfaction to every Repub- 
 lican in my congressional district, from the highest 
 official to the last voter. I, therefore, support the 
 nomination of James McMillan for United States 
 Senator from Michigan, for six years from March 4 
 next. 
 
 Mk. TYERELL. Mr. Chairman, I feel highly hon- 
 ored in being afforded the opportunity of seconding 
 the nomination of James McMillan to represent 
 Michigan in the National Senate. In making choice 
 
JOHN EDWARD TYRRELL. 23 
 
 of Mr. McMillan, Michigan will do itself honor, and 
 will be represented by one of its eminent citizens — a 
 man of sterling qualities, strictly honorable, and 
 remarkably successful in business matters. Kind 
 Providence has blessed him with an abundance of 
 the good things of this earth, with wealth honestly 
 earned, and a large heart, which prompts him to use 
 it judiciously in the right channels, for the benefit of 
 a large industrial class of our people. His many fac- 
 tories and workshops furnish steady employment to 
 thousands of our mechanics and laboring men. 
 
 As a Republican, his energy, liberality, and emi- 
 nent qualities as a leader and organizer place him in 
 the front rank, and make him a worthy successor to 
 the office once so ably filled by Zachariah Chandler, 
 " the noblest Roman of them all." 
 
 Me. DUNSTAK Mr. Chairman, I have listened 
 with pleasure to the remarks made ; and it may not 
 be improper to have an expression from the Upper 
 Peninsula on the matter before us. We have at- 
 tained such a position in the industrial affairs of the 
 State, our natural resources have developed to such 
 an extent, that we require men in official positions 
 who can command influence and who have the ability 
 and disposition to aid us. 
 
 With a thousand miles and upward of lake shore, 
 affording commodious harbors for purposes of com- 
 
24 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 merce; with mines of minerals the annual output 
 of which is worth millions of dollars ; with a lumber 
 industry second to none in the North or West, and 
 with a fertile soil, we are growing fast, our legislative 
 needs are increasing, and we demand competent men 
 to represent us in the halls of Congress. 
 
 In many respects our interests are different from 
 yours. We have industries and forms of labor to 
 which you are comparative strangers. The de- 
 mands of an agricultural country are unknown to 
 the population of the mines, and the converse of the 
 proposition is equally true. In seeking for a man to 
 discharge the duties of a senator at Washington we 
 are therefore impelled by the desire to select one 
 who, other things being equal, has the greatest 
 familiarity with our concerns, and has personal 
 knowledge, by virtue of business connections, of our 
 wants and requirements. 
 
 That portion of Michigan lying west and north of 
 the Straits of Mackinaw has no candidate before this 
 caucus. We make no demands in this direction. 
 The pear is not yet ripe. But the time will come, 
 and, I think, in the near future, when, owing to pop- 
 ulation and geographical position, the Upper Penin- 
 sula will ask for a senator from among its represen- 
 tative men ; and I believe that such a request, made 
 at the proper time, will be granted by the Lower 
 Peninsula with that cordiality and magnanimity 
 
THOMAS B. DUN STAN. 25 
 
 which have always characterized the people of the 
 latter in their relations with those of the former. 
 But, as I have indicated, this time has not yet come, 
 and we are here to unite with you in the nomination 
 and election of the man from lower Michigan who will 
 best conserve our interests and best honor our State. 
 Six years ago I participated in the election of the 
 gentleman whose term will expire with the fourth 
 day of March next. He — the Hon. Thomas W. 
 Palmer — seeks no reelection. Having discharged 
 with conscientious fidelity and with distinction — yea, 
 with honorable distinction — the trust reposed in 
 him by the people of the State of his nativity, he 
 declines to be returned to that post of duty, and we 
 are constrained to look about us for a suitable person 
 to fill his place. There seems to be no difficulty in 
 discovering a worthy successor. The people of the 
 entire State turn with one accord to James McMillan 
 of Detroit. Were it a question between him and any 
 other Republican, to be submitted to a popular vote 
 of the Republicans of the State, his election would 
 be assured by an overwhelming, a triumphant major- 
 ity. His age, his business relations with the great 
 body of our people, his habitual devotion to labor, 
 and his personal knowledge of the conditions which 
 are indispensable to the welfare of the two penin- 
 sulas, make him an eminently proper man for a seat 
 in the upper house of the Federal Congress. 
 
26 TEE CAUCUS OF 1S80. 
 
 I believe that he has the essentials of a successful 
 career there. He is equipped for the trust, and we 
 are well enough acquainted with his public and 
 business life to know that he will not fail in his duty 
 to us, or shirk in meeting the responsibilities of this 
 new station. 
 
 It is possible he has not all the attributes of the 
 average congressman. Among the number is one 
 which, I believe, he does not possess, and which, I 
 understand, he has taken little pains to cultivate. 
 I am told that he is not an orator, that he is not 
 particularly or "perniciously" active in this direc- 
 tion. If that be so, then one thing is assured: he 
 will not be an obstructionist in the Senate of the 
 United States. He will have no effusive rhetoric 
 with which to delay or obstruct wise and wholesome 
 legislation. His good, all-around common sense, 
 and his untiring industry will enlist him in the ranks 
 of the workers in his new field of labor; and his prac- 
 tical knowledge and sound judgment will be of incal- 
 culable benefit to his colleagues and to the country. 
 It has been said that thirty centuries ago the Spar- 
 tans demanded "bold men with short sentences." 
 During the three and four decades last past, we have 
 had in this country a few men who possessed in a 
 striking degree this sterling quality. We have had 
 such " Spartan " Yankees as Simon Cameron, Ben 
 Wade, and Zach Chandler — men who spoke from 
 
JOHN V. B. GOODRICH. 27 
 
 the shoulder, aud talked business every tune. Men 
 of this class are in demand everywhere and at all 
 times, and in no position are they calculated to do 
 more good than in legislative bodies. Within this 
 denomination, unless I am greatly in error, may be 
 assigned the gentleman for whom we shall express a 
 preference to-night. It is, therefore, no objection 
 that Mr. McMillan is not an adept in the art of elo- 
 cution. He is, however, fortunately gifted with a 
 clearness of diction, a plain, direct, forcible manner 
 of expressing his thoughts, which carry conviction 
 and achieve results. No mistake will be made in 
 electing him. He is abreast of the times, in accord 
 with the spirit of the hour, and will worthily fill the 
 chair of Cass, of Chandlei", of Howard, and of 
 Palmer. 
 
 I most heartily support the nomination of James 
 McMillan. 
 
 Me. GOODRICH. Mr. Chairman, I should feel 
 unworthy to represent my constituency in this Leg- 
 islature should I fail to give expression to their 
 feelings upon this occasion. The people of my legis- 
 lative district and of my county act in harmony with 
 the people of the Fifth Congressional District in say- 
 ing that James McMillan — the choice of the people 
 of this State — should be the unanimous nominee of 
 this caucus for United States Senator. 
 
28 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 Not alone do we see iu him the qualificatious for a 
 statesman, and recognize in him those sterling qual- 
 ities of honesty and integrity which place him high 
 in the estimation of all who know him ; but also we 
 are led to honor him for his deeds, the praise of 
 which may be heard in tones that sound like the 
 blare of trumpets. His monuments rise from every 
 direction all over this State; his eulogy is written 
 on ten thousand hearts. Commerce commemorates 
 his deeds with her whitening sails and her laden 
 wharves ; philanthropy rings the chimes of all public 
 charities in attestation of his munificence; patriot- 
 ism sings pagans for him, who, in the hour of the 
 Nation's struggle, was always ready to send the ring- 
 ing gold of mercy to chime with the flashing steel 
 of valor. Unnumbered deeds of private generosity 
 attest his secret munificence. Sorrow has found 
 solace in his deeds. Despair has been lifted into 
 hope by his voice. There are churches whose heaven- 
 kissing spires chronicle his donations ; schools claim 
 him as their patron; hospitals own him as their 
 benefactor. He is the supporter of Art; Science 
 leans on bim, while her vision sweeps infinity; 
 the pathways of Progress have been paved with 
 his silver. He has upheld Invention, while she 
 wrestled with the forces of Nature. He has ever 
 been the life-blood of enterprise; he is the vigor 
 of all progress; he is the epitome and the repre- 
 
JOHN V. B. GOODRICH. 29 
 
 sentative of all that is broadening and expansive 
 and uplifting in the life of Michigan. Do you wish 
 to forward a public or a private charity ? — McMillan 
 heads the subscription himself. Do you desire to 
 start a new industry, develop the resources of the 
 State, build a new manufactory and give hundreds 
 of husbands and fathers contented and well-paid 
 toil? — you go to James McMillan for advice and 
 assistance. He impresses you with his power; he 
 infuses you with his energy; he touches you with 
 his generosity ; he conquers you with his magnetism. 
 His vitality is like the flash of steel; his untiring 
 energy is like the steady and swift flow of the cata- 
 ract; his beneficence is like the copious and searching 
 philanthropy of summer rain. For these reasons, 
 the men of Michigan say : " Let Mr. McMillan rep- 
 resent us in the Congress of the United States, as 
 one of the Senators from this State." Did I say that, 
 for the reasons I have assigned, the men of Michigan 
 desire his election ! Aye, and the women and chil- 
 dren all over this great State, for the same reasons, 
 are saying : " Let Mr. McMillan represent us." 
 
 Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of this Caucus, let 
 us please all of them by making James McMillan the 
 unanimous nominee of this convention. 
 
 Mr. GILMORE. Mr. Chairman, the magnificent 
 political triumph of the sixth day of November last, 
 
30 THE CAUCUS OF 18S9. 
 
 by which Michigan was taken out of the column of 
 doubtful States, was no less gratifying to the Repub- 
 licans of the State than will be our action to-night. 
 Already has the distinguished and honored citizen 
 whose name is before us been chosen in the hearts 
 of his countrymen, to represent the great State of 
 Michigan among the Nation's councilors. Our pleas- 
 ing task is simply to record their will. From Kee- 
 weenaw Point to the most southern extremity of the 
 Lower Peninsula, comes but one wish and one name. 
 Were I inclined to eulogize the distinguished gentle- 
 man, what could be said more commendable of his 
 high character, his keen sagacity, his boundless gen- 
 erosity, his broad and comprehensive views, than 
 that his adopted State, recognizing his preeminent 
 abilities, tenders him the highest gift at its disposal, 
 without an opposing voice within its borders. For 
 such a man, most assuredly and most heartily do the 
 people of Lenawee county join in the universal ver- 
 dict, and pronounce, as their only choice for United 
 States Senator, the name of James McMillan. 
 
 The Chairman then read this letter : 
 
 Hon. GtEkrit J. Diekema, Chairman of the Caucus: 
 Being confined to my room by sickness, I desire in 
 this way to express my admiration for the ability and 
 sterling integrity of the Hon. James McMillan. 
 
 The Republicans of Gratiot County recognize the 
 
RUS8EL R. PEALEB. 31 
 
 zealous and effective efforts of the Hon. James Mc- 
 Millan, which have contributed so much to the suc- 
 cess of the Republican party, and will regret that 
 they are unable to be represented in the caucus which 
 nominates him for United States Senator. 
 
 H. L. Wood, 
 
 Bepresentative from Gratiot County. 
 
 Lansing, Mich., Jan'y 2, 1889. 
 
 Mr. PEALER. Mr. Chairman, there is no ques- 
 tion but that the people of the State have great confi- 
 dence in the ability and integi-ity of James McMillan, 
 of Detroit. We all recognize his noble manhood and 
 know that public affairs will bo safe in his hands; 
 besides, we feel that we owe him a debt of gi-atitude. 
 There is such a unanimity of opinion in favor of, and 
 such a general demand for, his nomination, that, at 
 this time, words, however well chosen or eloquently 
 uttered, cannot properly express the public will. 
 They only serve to delay the compliment we wish 
 to pay ; therefore I will move, if no other name is to 
 be presented, that the nomination of James McMillan 
 for United States Senator be now made by a rising 
 vote, as the very best possible expression of the com- 
 pliment we desire to pay him. 
 
 The chairman. Gentlemen, you have heard 
 the nomination of James McMillan for United States 
 
32 THE CAUCUS OF 18S9. 
 
 Senator. All those in favor of the nomination will 
 please rise. 
 
 The Senators and Representatives arose in their 
 places. 
 
 The chairman. If any are opposed, let them 
 arise. 
 No one arose. 
 
 The chair then announced the unanimous nomina- 
 tion of Mr. McMillan. 
 
 "In an instant," says the report in The Detroit 
 Tribune, "there was a scene of wild enthusiasm. Men 
 clapped their hands, shouted, and whistled. The 
 caucus had been in session just one hour. Repre- 
 sentative Goodrich, Senator Palmer, and Judge 
 Pealer were appointed a committee to advise Mj. 
 McMillan of the caucus's action, and to bring him 
 before the members. The next senator came in 
 from the Speaker's room with the committee. He 
 walked with dignity up the stairs to the Speaker's 
 desk. Senator Palmer presented him to the Speaker. 
 The storm of applause that greeted him lasted sev- 
 eral minutes. The legislators and outsiders clapped 
 their hands, stamped their feet, yelled, and whistled. 
 Some stood up and waved their handkerchiefs." 
 
 When the applause had quieted Mr. McMillan 
 said : 
 
THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 33 
 
 Gentlemen of the Bepublican Caucus, your com- 
 mittee have informed me of your action and of 
 the very high compliment paid to me. I am here to 
 express my heartfelt thanks to each one of you, not 
 only for the honor conferred, but for your confidence 
 in me and my ability to perform the duties of the 
 office for which you have named me. It is very 
 gratifying to me that so many Republicans of Michi- 
 gan have given me their entire confidence and regard, 
 and while I feel and appreciate the great gift, I know 
 that with the honor will come grave responsibilities. 
 I appreciate the fact that when the new Administra- 
 tion assumes control of the government there will 
 come before Congress grave questions, questions of 
 finance — the question of the sui-plus of which we 
 have heard so much — the question of the tariff, and 
 the question of transportion. I trust that my expe- 
 rience in practical affairs will enable me to be of 
 some service to this State in Washington, as one of 
 its representatives. If, therefore, the Legislature 
 shall confirm your action, I will have no hesitancy 
 in accepting the office, and I promise to devote my 
 energy, of which I have considerable, and what little 
 ability I possess, to serve this State faithfully and 
 to prove myself worthy of the honor you have con- 
 ferred, and thus reflect credit upon your action. 
 
 I must not forget those Republicans from all 
 parts of the State who during the past two days 
 
34 THE CAUCUS OF 1889. 
 
 have gratified me by their kind words and unanimity 
 of sentiment. I thank them for their presence and 
 for their sympathy. I will never forget their kind- 
 ness so long as I live. 
 
 After the applause which followed Mr. McMillan's 
 speech had subsided, Ex-United States Senator 
 Thomas W. Ferry was invited to address the caucus. 
 Mr. Ferry gracefully responded in a speech of re- 
 markable power and eloquence. The following 
 allusion to Mr. Ferry is from the Pontiac Gazette : 
 
 After the nomination, ox-Senator T. W. Fen-y was called upon, and 
 made the strongest, most eloquent, and most impressive speech of his 
 life. We have listened to many strong speeches in the National legis- 
 lative halls, and elsewhere, but we recall few, if any, speeches which, 
 for terse diction, comprehensive statement and grouping of principles, 
 incisive logic and force of illustration, were superior to the unexpected 
 and entirely impromptu speech of the ex-senator. It was an epitome 
 of Eepublican history and patriotic inspiration. His tribute to Hon. 
 James McMillan, between whom and himself and brother, Hon. Edward 
 P. Ferry, there exists a warm and lasting personal friendship, was an 
 event of the occasion. 
 
CREDENTIALS OF 1889. 
 
 [From the files of the United States Senate. 
 
 Credentials 
 
 OF 
 
 HONORABLE JAMES MCMILLAN. 
 
 Election of U. 8. Senator. 
 
 Proceedings in Joint Convention. 
 
 To Hon. Cyrus G. Luce, Governor of Michigan : 
 
 Sir : We do hereby certify that the follotinng is a true transcript of the Senate 
 and House of Representatives in Joint Convention, for the Election of United 
 States Senator, this \&th day of January, 1889. 
 
 The Joint Convention was called to order by Hon. William Ball, President 
 pro tern, of the Senate. 
 
 The roll of the Senate was called by the Secretary thereof, and a quorum of 
 the Senators was present. 
 
 The roll of the House was called by the Clerk thereof, and a quorum of the 
 Representatives was present. 
 
 The President i>ro tern, then made the following? announcement: 
 
 Gentlemen — Members of the Senate arid House of Representatives : 
 
 We have met in joint convention this Wednesday noon succeeding tbe second 
 Tuesday of the session, in conformity with an act of Congress and the law of 
 this State, to compare the vote taken yesterday in each of the two bouses sepa- 
 rately for a Senator in Congress from this State for the full term of six years 
 from the fourth day of March next, and to ascertain whether an election has 
 taken place, and if so, to declare the result; if otherwise, to proceed to an 
 election as the law provides. 
 
 The President pro tern, then called on the Secretary of the Senate to read so 
 much of the Journal of yesterday as related thereto. 
 The Secretary of the Senate then read as follows : 
 
 35 
 
36 
 
 CREDENTIALS OF 18S0. 
 
 Senate Cliamhcr, 
 [Special Orukh.] Lansing, Midi., January 15, 1889. 
 
 The Prepident pro tcm. announced that the hour of 2:30 o'clock, P. M., had 
 arrived, the time fixed by resohition for naming a Senator in the Congress of 
 the United States for the full term of six years from the fourth day of March, 
 1889, in place of Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, whose term of ollice will then expire. 
 
 The Senate then proceeded to name a Senator viva voce. 
 
 The roll of the Senate was then called by the Secretary, and the Senators 
 named the following persona as their choice for Senator in Congress : 
 
 FOR JAMES MCMILLAN. 
 
 Mr. Babeock, 
 Berrj', 
 Chapman, 
 Colgrove, 
 Den Herder, 
 Dunstan, 
 
 Mr. Fox, 
 
 Galbraith, 
 
 Giddings, 
 
 Green, 
 
 Griffey, 
 
 Gurney, 
 
 Mr. Holbrook, 
 Leavitt, 
 McCormick, 
 Milnes, 
 Palmer, 
 
 Mr. Ranney, 
 Taylor, 
 Toan, 
 Wesselius, 
 President, 
 pro tern., 22. 
 
 FOR MELBOURNE H. FORD. 
 
 Mr. Barringer, 
 Gorman, 
 
 Mr. Grosfleld, 
 Harshaw, 
 
 Mr. Nagel, 
 Rentz, 
 
 Mr. Wisner, 
 
 Whereupon the President ;;ro tcm. announced that James McMillan had re- 
 ceived a majority of all the votes cast for the office of Senator in the CVmgress 
 of the United States for the full term of six years from the 4th day of March, 
 1889, and that the vote as taken would be entered upon the Journal of the 
 Senate. 
 
 The Clerk of the House, by direction of the Speaker thereof, then read the 
 proceedings of the House of Representatives thereon, as follows : 
 
 House of Representatives, 
 (Special Ordeh.] Lansing, Mich., January 15, 1889, 2:30 o'clock, P. M. 
 
 The Speaker announced that the hour for the special order had arrived. 
 
 Being the naming of a candidate for the office of Senator in the Congress of 
 the United States in the place of Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, whose term of office 
 expires on the 4th day of March next. 
 
 The House then proceeded by a viva voce vote, to name a person for Senator 
 in Congress, with the following result : 
 
 FOR JAMES MCMILLAN. 
 
 Mr. Abbott, 
 
 Mr. Crosby, 
 
 Mr. Goodrich, 
 
 Mr. Lusk, 
 
 Alexander, 
 
 Curtis, 
 
 Hall, 
 
 Mc(iregor, 
 
 Angerer, 
 
 Dalton, 
 
 Harris, 
 
 McKay, 
 
 Baker, 
 
 Damon, 
 
 Hawley, 
 
 McMillan, 
 
 Baldwin, 
 
 Dewey, 
 
 Hinkson, 
 
 Morton, 
 
 Browne, H. W. 
 
 , Diekema, 
 
 Hoaglin, 
 
 North rup. 
 
 Brown, N. J., 
 
 Deming, 
 
 Ilobart, 
 
 O'Keefe, 
 
 Cole, 
 
 Dyer, 
 
 Judd, 
 
 Peabody, 
 
 Collins, 
 
 Eaton, 
 
 Kirby, 
 
 Pealer, 
 
CREDENTIALS OF 1889. 
 
 37 
 
 Mr. Potter, 
 
 Preston, J. L., 
 
 Preston, W. W. 
 
 Robinson, R., 
 
 Rogers, 
 
 Russ, 
 
 Salisbury, 
 
 Sherman, 
 
 Mr. Slosson, 
 
 Smith, A. A., 
 
 Smith, O. 8., 
 
 South worth, 
 
 Spencer, 
 
 Stoflet, 
 
 Stout, 
 
 Swift, 
 
 Mr. Taylor, 
 
 Tinklepaugh, 
 
 Turner, 
 
 Tyrrell, 
 
 Van Orthwick, 
 
 Wagner, 
 
 Waite, 
 
 Watson, 
 
 Mr. Watts, 
 
 Wells, 
 White, 
 Wiggins, 
 Williams, C.W., 
 Williams, W.W., 
 Wood, 
 Zagelmeyer, 68. 
 
 FOR MELBOURNE H. FORD. 
 
 Mr. Aleshire, 
 Austin, 
 Bignal, 
 Briske, 
 Canfleld, 
 Chambers, 
 Dee, 
 
 Mr. Ferguson, 
 Fitch, 
 Gibbons, 
 Gill, 
 
 Gregory, 
 Hineman, 
 Heubner, 
 
 Mr. Jackson, 
 Jasnowski, 
 Killean, 
 Low den, 
 McKinstry, 
 Mellen, 
 Murtaugh, 
 
 Mr. Probert, 
 Randall, 
 Robinson, H.W., 
 Wachtel, 
 Wettlaufer, 
 WTieatou, 27. 
 
 The Clerk announced that there had been ninety-five votes cast, of which 
 Melbourne H. Ford had 27, and James McMillan 68. 
 
 The Speaker announced that the proceedings would be recorded in the Jour- 
 nal, for presentation at the joint convention, which will commence at 12 o'clock 
 M. to-morrow, in compliance with the United States Statutes. 
 
 WJtereiijion the President ^jro tern, announced that it appeared by the records 
 that one hundred and twenty-four votes had been cast for the office of Senator 
 in the Congress of the United States, of which Melbourne H. Ford had received 
 thirty-four votes, and James McMillan had received ninety votes ; lohereupon, 
 it is apparent and is now ofliciaUy declared that James McMillan, having re- 
 ceived a majority of all the votes cast yesterday, severally in the two House[s], 
 a quorum being present and voting in each, and in the aggregate, is duly 
 elected to the oflSce of Senator in the Congress of the United States from the 
 State of Michigan, for the term of six years, commencing on the fourth day of 
 March next. 
 
 William Ball, 
 
 President pro tern. Senate, 
 Lewis Miller, 
 
 Secretary Senate. 
 
 Gerrit J. Diekema, 
 
 Speaker House. 
 D. L. Grossman, 
 
 Clerk House. 
 
 Executive Office, 
 I Lansing, Michigan, January 17, 1889. 
 
 I, CYRUS G. LUCE, Governor of the State of Michigan, DO CERTIFY that 
 Hon. James McMillan has been duly elected Senator, in the Congress of the United 
 States, for the full term of six years, commencing March ith, A. D. 1889. 
 
 The Seal 
 
 of the 
 
 State of 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 Cyrus G. Luce, 
 
 Governor. 
 
 G. R. Osmun, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 
 
IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 
 
 ON the fourth clay of March, 1889, Mr. McMillau, 
 escorted by Senator Stockbridge and in com- 
 pany with Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, Mr. Kenna, 
 of West Virginia, and Mr. McPherson, of New Jersey, 
 received the oath of office at the hands of Vice- 
 President Morton ; and on the reorganization of the 
 Senate he was made chairman of the Committee on 
 Manufactures and was assigned to places on the 
 committees on Agriculture and Forestry, on The 
 District of Columbia, and on Post-Offices and Post- 
 Roads. Two years later, at the beginning of the 
 Fifty-second Congi'ess, he became chairman of the 
 Committee on the District of Columbia, in place of 
 Hon. John J. Ingalls, who was not reelected. Also 
 he exchanged his place on Manufactures for one on 
 the Committee on Education and Labor ; and on the 
 creation of the Select Committee on Corporations in 
 the District of Columbia he was placed on that com- 
 mittee. In the Fifty-third Congress, the Senate 
 having been organized by the Democratic majority, 
 he served on the committees on The District of 
 
 6 41 
 
42 TN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 
 
 Coluiiilna, Pacific Railroads, Post-Offices and Post- 
 Roads, Corporations in the District of Columbia, 
 Ford's Theater Disaster, and Agriculture and For- 
 estry. On May 14, 1894, he was relieved from ser- 
 vice on the last-named committee and was assigned 
 to the place on Naval Affairs made vacant by the 
 death of Senator Stockbridge. 
 
 During his term Mr. McMillan also served at vari- 
 ous times on the Republican caucus committees 
 having charge of financial legislation, of the order 
 of business in the Senate (popularly called the Steer- 
 ing Committee), and of the assignment of members 
 to the various committees. 
 
 Mr. McMillan was thrice elected Chairman of the 
 Republican State Central Committee of Michigan; 
 and the campaign immediately preceding the close 
 of his term resulted in the election of every Repub- 
 lican nominee for the State Senate, and of all but 
 one of the Republican nominees for the State House 
 of Representatives. On February 22, 1894, Mr. Mc- 
 Millan had announced in the press that he would be 
 a candidate for reelection to the Senate, and no 
 other name was considered by the Republicans. 
 
THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 SIX years to the day from the date of the first 
 caucus which unanimously nominated Mr. Mc- 
 Millan for the office of United States Senator, an 
 almost exact repetition of the former events oc- 
 curred. Again in accordance with a call signed by 
 a majority of the senators and members of the Mich- 
 igan Legislature, and in the wording of which only 
 the date "1889" was changed to that of "1895," the 
 Republican Caucus assembled, and was called to 
 order by Hon. Dennis E. Alward, Secretary of the 
 Senate. On motion of Hon. William D. Gordon, 
 Speaker of the House of Eepresentatives, Hon. 
 Edward M. Barnard, Senator from the Seventeenth 
 District, was selected as chairman; and on taking 
 the chair he said : 
 
 Gentlemen of the Caucus, We are convened for the 
 purpose of nominating a Senator of the United 
 States for the term beginning March 4th next. Never 
 in the history of Michigan or of any other State has 
 there been such a situation as exists with us to-day. 
 
46 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 Under ordinary circumstances, I should hesitate to 
 anticipate your action, which will be the renomina- 
 tion of that fearless statesman, elegant business 
 man, and Christian gentleman, the Hon. James 
 McMillan, by the unanimous vote of the entire legis- 
 lature of his State. With this done, you will have 
 done well. 
 
 Gentlemen of the Caucus, I await your further 
 pleasure. 
 
 Nominating speeches were made by the following 
 senators and members : 
 
 Joseph R. McLaughlin, a senator from the Third 
 District, comprising a part of Wayne County. 
 
 William D. Goedon, a representative from Gratiot 
 County and Speaker of the House. 
 
 Fkank W. Clapp, a senator from the Ninth Dis- 
 trict, comprising Calhoun and Kalamazoo 
 counties. 
 
 George G. Covell, representative from Grand Tra- 
 verse County. 
 
 Edwin O. Shaw, senator from the Twenty-fifth 
 District, comprising Mecosta, Osceola, and 
 Newaygo counties. 
 
 George W. Partridge, representative from Wayne 
 County. 
 
JOSEPH R. McLaughlin. 47 
 
 Fkemont C. Chamberlain, representative from Goge- 
 bic, Ontonagon, Keweenaw, and Isle Royale 
 counties. 
 
 John L. Preston, senator from the Twenty-first 
 District, comprising Lapeer and Tuscola 
 counties. 
 
 Byron S. Waite, representative from Menominee 
 County. 
 
 William M. Kilpatrick, senator from the Four- 
 teenth District, comprising Shiawassee and 
 Ingham counties. 
 
 Job T. Campbell, representative from the Second 
 District of Ingham County. 
 
 Julius M. Jamison, senator from the Sixteenth Dis- 
 trict, comprising a part of Kent County. 
 
 The remarks of the above-named gentlemen were 
 as follows : 
 
 Mr. McLaughlin. Mr. chairman, representing 
 a great State, we are assembled to perform one of 
 her gi-avest and most sacred functions. As her legal 
 and official representatives we are summoned to a no 
 less important duty than naming the men to repre- 
 sent this commonwealth in the Congress of the 
 United States — the naming of men who shall not 
 only fittingly represent the State in the National 
 
48 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 Legislature, but who shall also honorably bear their 
 part in the government of the Nation. When we 
 reflect upon the responsibilities of power ; when we 
 remember that the most sacred rights and liberties of 
 the people are reposed in those who govern, we may 
 feebly appreciate the importance of the privilege and 
 the magnitude of the duty before us. Upon the men 
 whom we elect, and those selected in like manner 
 by the other States of the Union, is conferred the 
 solemn obligation of power. To them, in large mea- 
 sure, are the life, the liberty, and the property of the 
 people of the Nation intrusted. 
 
 For more than a hundred years the Senate of the 
 United States has been a cherished institution. The 
 list of its members is our country's roll of honor. Its 
 deliberations have been characterized by conserva- 
 tism, uprightness, and wisdom. Its name has become 
 synonymous with scholarship, statesmanship, dignity, 
 and stabiUty. To it do the people look for the pre- 
 servation of those permanent forms without which 
 there can be no liberty or justice or freedom. 
 
 And yet late years have developed a school of 
 philosophers who attack the Senate, claiming that 
 Senators have sometimes failed to represent the great 
 body of the people of the States that elected them. 
 This is doubtless true. But to the thoughtful it is 
 matter of congratulation rather than regret, for a 
 Senator was not designed to perform the function of 
 
JOSEPH B. McLaughlin. 49 
 
 a weather-cock. It is not to be forgotten that the 
 object of all good government is to secure liberty and 
 justice. That is the great desideratum. No govern- 
 ment can be good that is not stable. No government 
 can be stable if it must conform to every passing 
 prejudice or delusion. 
 
 In the interest, then, of a stable government, the 
 Senate should have a different constituency from that 
 of the lower House. This difference should be one 
 not of size alone, but of character as well. The ship 
 of state must carry ballast. And woe to her when 
 the storms come if that which was supposed to be 
 ballast turns out to be chaff. It is safe, however, to 
 say, that the greater part of the support of the 
 proposition to change the method of electing United 
 States Senators comes either from those whose am- 
 bitions have been blasted or from the superficial 
 reasoning of those who have not studied the ma- 
 chinery of our Government with care. 
 
 " For forms of government let fools contest, 
 Whate'er is best administer'd is best." 
 
 The present method of electing United States Sen- 
 ators was adopted for the avowed purpose of giving 
 that body great independence. Washington and his 
 colleagues were familiar with prior forms of govern- 
 ment and their operations. It is only necessary to 
 consult the pages of the Federalist to understand the 
 
50 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 acquaintance of the American statesman with pre- 
 ceding governmental systems, ancient and modern; 
 to comprehend that the Constitution was the result, 
 not of a desire for novelty, but of the effort to gather 
 the fruit of that growth which, having its roots in 
 the past, could yield in the present and give promise 
 for the future. 
 
 The Constitution was the product of the best Amer- 
 ican thought of a century guided by the lights of his- 
 tory and trained in the school of adversity. It was 
 born in the century of Montesquieu, Voltaire, and 
 Rousseau; of Frederick the Great and Joseph the 
 Second; of Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Grattan; of Priest- 
 ley, Hume, and Adam Smith. 
 
 The Senate of the United States should be com- 
 posed of men of conservative and penetrative thought. 
 They should be men of broad intelligence, of cou- 
 rage, of great comprehension, well poised, sound and 
 brainy. They should be men of wisdom. 
 
 '* Wisdom is the principal thing ; therefore get wisdom : and 
 with all thy getting get understanding. Exalt her, and she shall 
 promote thee." 
 
 The honor and the agreeable duty devolves upon 
 me to present to this assemblage the name of such a 
 man to represent Michigan. I will present a name 
 cherished throughout the length and breadth of this 
 commonwealth; a name which stands for achieve- 
 
JOSEPH B. Mclaughlin. 51 
 
 ment, integrity, and honor ; a name which stands for 
 frugaUty, enterprise, and intellectual capacity ; a 
 name which stands for generosity, benevolence, and 
 devotion ; a name which stands for purity and hon- 
 
 7 esty in public and private life ; a name which stands 
 
 ' for leadership. 
 
 Six years ago the Republicans of Michigan, as one 
 man, turned to him for the high office of United 
 States Senator. This State had never before be- 
 stowed its honors with so great unanimity. They 
 turned to him with the hope and expectation that his 
 splendid capabilities would find new fields of useful- 
 ness and honor ; that the qualities of mind and heart 
 which had won for him such unparalleled success in 
 business and had endeared him to the hearts of the 
 people would safely guard the interests of a State 
 and help to guide the destiny of a Nation. 
 
 How grandly have these hopes and prophecies been 
 reaUzed ! So grandly that to-day a Nation joins a 
 State in honoring his name. So grandly that from 
 Maine to California, from the crystal waters of Su- 
 perior to the sunny strands of the Gulf, his name is 
 honored and his judgment respected. 
 
 Upon all the great questions that have agitated the 
 public mind and commanded the attention of Con- 
 gress during these riotous periods of thought, his 
 voice has been heard in unmistakable tones ; heard 
 in defense of Michigan and her industries ; heard in 
 
52 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 behalf of the Nation and its welfare, not in the bois- 
 terous demonstration of a western cyclone, but with 
 the mighty force of the deep. Not a debate, that his 
 clear, incisive thought and terse statement did not 
 inject new and valuable ideas into the discussion. 
 Regarded as a wise counselor, a safe adviser, a for- 
 cible debater, Michigan's favorite son stands in the 
 highest councils of the Nation, a glory to his State 
 and an honor to himself. 
 
 " Rich in saving common sense, 
 And, as the greatest only are, 
 In his simpUcity subhme." 
 
 In legislation he has patiently devoted his best en- 
 deavors to the advancement of the interests of Mich- 
 igan. He has cooperated with every agency that 
 looked to the development and protection of her lands 
 and waters. He has secured large appropriations for 
 her rivers, harbors, and lights. It was through his 
 efforts that reciprocal wrecking privileges between 
 the United States and Canada were obtained. He 
 promoted the legislation for a deep-water channel 
 between the upper and lower lakes by taking the 
 congressional committee over these waterways, and 
 actually presenting to them the great object lesson 
 of our lake commerce. In the great tariff debates he 
 voiced the protest and opposition of Michigan to the 
 Wilson Bill, which so ruthlessly assailed her vital in- 
 
JOSEPH R. MoLAUOHLIN. 53 
 
 terests, in a speech that was commended from one 
 end of the land to the other. It was applauded by 
 the Republican press everywhere, and even the New 
 York Sim contained a column editorial reiterating 
 the points made by Michigan's Senator against the 
 wanton sacrifice of American interests proposed in 
 that measure. He made the strongest plea for the 
 wool industry of the country that was made in those 
 great debates. His speeches on the currency ques- 
 tion show him to be well grounded in the principles 
 of monetary science. Although one of the fixed 
 sciences, he was able to throw into the discussion a 
 new light. 
 
 Since the days of Zachariah Chandler he has been 
 the leader of the Republican hosts of Michigan, and 
 has handled them steadily and successfully on many 
 a field of triumph. 
 
 Charity and benevolence know him. He believes 
 that wealth is the gift of God, to be shared by the 
 children of penury or devoted to institutions that 
 contemplate a general good. Humanity is a brother- 
 hood ! Grace Hospital, of Detroit, built and main- 
 tained largely through his benefactions; the Art 
 Museum ; the University of Michigan ; Albion Col- 
 lege ; Mary Allen Seminary of Texas ; private chari- 
 ties innumerable, and churches by the score, testify 
 to the kindness of heart and to the great generosity 
 of the man. 
 
54 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 Forty years ago, leaving home and friends and kin- 
 dred, he came to this country of great possibilities, 
 from a neighboring land, to join hands and fortunes 
 with us. With what success his efforts have been 
 rewarded, you know full well. The wheels of indus- 
 try sing his praises. The white wings of commerce 
 salute him — prince of men. 
 
 While American traditions last, while the noblest 
 sentiments of the heart are drawn in admiration to 
 the honest efforts of the poor boy struggling for suc- 
 cess in the world, while America is America, men of 
 his type will be respected and honored. Shall I give 
 you his name I I have already done so. My mission 
 is complete — thrice complete. By recounting his 
 deeds and virtues I have discovered him unto you. 
 Ah, Michigan ! Thou has bestowed thine honors 
 well. The talents thou hast given have been used 
 to thy renown. Say now to thy servant, "Well done. 
 Here are other talents ; take them, use them. Whilst 
 thou art showering laurels upon me, I will bestow 
 garlands upon thee." 
 
 In behalf of the metropolis of the State, of the city 
 and county of his home, I have the honor of present- 
 ing for the long-term Senatorship the name of Hon. 
 James McMillan, of Michigan. 
 
 Me. GORDON. Mr. Chairman, while I have pre- 
 pared no address, I can not refrain from saying a few 
 
WILLIAM D. GORDON. 55 
 
 words. Grovernor McKinley of Ohio has said that 
 business is politics and politics is business. The 
 senator from Wayne has said that Senator McMillan 
 is a business man ; and so he is. He has brought busi- 
 ness methods to bear upon politics. In this Capitol 
 there are evidences of those methods — the whole 
 legislature with one exception being Republican. 
 
 I object to Senator McLaughlin's reference to 
 " Senator McMillan of Wayne." It is Senator 
 McMillan of Michigan. Henry Clay said that he 
 was not a citizen of Virginia, but an American citi- 
 zen. Benjamin Franklin, at a banquet in London 
 where Great Britain had been toasted as " The sun 
 that rules the world," and France as " The moon that 
 rules the tides of the world," toasted the United 
 States as "The Joshua who said to the sun and moon, 
 ' Stand still,' and they stood still." 
 
 James McMillan is an American of that stamp. 
 He said to the products of cheap European labor, 
 and to the pauper immigrants of the old world, 
 " Stand still ! Stand back!" His Michiganism covers 
 the whole State, and his Americanism is of the whole 
 country. I desire to second the nomination of Sena- 
 tor James McMillan of the United States of America! 
 
 Me. CLAPP. Mr. Chairman, in these latter days, 
 when peculiarities too often are considered to be the 
 elements of wisdom, when vagaries too often take 
 
56 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 the place of statesmanship, when even in the Senate 
 of the United States wild and fanciful notions are 
 seriously presented as solutions of great public prob- 
 lems, it is consoling, it is refreshing, to know that 
 Michigan has not endeavored to turn the highest 
 legislative power of the Republic into a museum for 
 the display of either antiquities or curiosities. 
 
 Men have not been sent there from here who have 
 presented bills like that one before the present Senate 
 providing for a public system of cooperation and 
 other purposes, asking an appropriation therefor of 
 sixty-seven Ullions of dollars, an amount so large 
 that the mind of man cannot grasp it, and about six 
 times larger than the amount of money there is in 
 all this world! 
 
 Men have not been sent there from here who, en- 
 deavoring to solve the question of immigration, have 
 presented resolutions like that one providing for the 
 imposition of a poll-tax of a dollar per head on every 
 man, woman, and child seeking admission to this 
 country by way of steam or sailing vessels, and al- 
 lowing those who slide across our borders on railroad 
 trains to come in free of charge ! 
 
 If statesmanship consists, according to the usual 
 definition, in the inventing and originating of pub- 
 lic measures, then are the propositions relative to 
 cooperation and immigration the highest types, and 
 Senator Peffer, of Kansas, is the most wise and bril- 
 
FRANK W. CLAPP. 57 
 
 liant statesman on this hemisphere. Certainly the 
 inventive faculty could not be asked to go any fur- 
 ther. In this country, with its written constitution 
 and its established principles, statesmanship consists 
 not so much in invention as it does in the repression 
 of extravagances and in the shaping and molding 
 of legislation to suit those changes that progress 
 necessitates. 
 
 Men, however, have been sent from here who have 
 worked for the people's real interest and the coun- 
 try's welfare. 
 
 Now and then some gifted son of Michigan has 
 spoken his way to the front and been awarded the 
 orator's laurel crown, like Jacob M. Howard, of whom 
 Charles Sumner said that he was the ablest consti- 
 tutional lawyer in the Senate. 
 
 Now and then men of practical business judgment 
 have been chosen, men of affairs, accustomed to the 
 management of large and varied interests ; men who, 
 broadened by their life experiences, have become ex- 
 tremely beneficial to the State and Nation. 
 
 It would be a mistake to say that one successful in 
 the management of great business enterprises should 
 not hold public position. The discipline and the broad- 
 ening of mind which come of business life do what 
 public service ought to accomplish, and enable men 
 so trained to solve problems and to find principles 
 that control actions and events. What the citizen 
 
58 THE CAUCUS OF IS 95. 
 
 has the right to demand and expect is that men of 
 power shall not use places the people give them for 
 personal interest or to increase private gain, but for 
 the benefit of all the people. 
 
 Of the names this Commonwealth has placed on 
 the roll of the Senate of the United States none 
 has taken higher rank, none stands for greater 
 power, none stirs the blood of the citizenship of 
 Michigan, more than does the name of Zachariah 
 Chandler. Yet he was not a great writer, not a 
 gi'eat thinker, not a great orator; but at times he was 
 grander than all of these in his magic power of find- 
 ing truth. There was one thing he stood first in: 
 he was possessed with the genius of common sense. 
 
 Since his day, as well as before, our State has de- 
 manded that solid, practical judgment, that wisdom 
 and understanding, shall represent it in the higher 
 branch of the National Congress. 
 
 On behalf of the Ninth Senatorial District, I sup- 
 port the nomination of Senator McMillan, because 
 in him are personified those qualities which the 
 State of Michigan has approved, and which the in- 
 terests of the State and Nation now require to be on 
 guard in the Senate of the United States. 
 
 Mr. COVELL. Mr. Chairman, the greatest heri- 
 tage any generation ever handed down to posterity 
 was a good government, and we are blessed in this 
 
EDWIN 0. SHAW. 59 
 
 age with such a government — a government of the 
 people, for the people, and by the people ; and such 
 a grand government is the result of the efforts and 
 wisdom of such noble men as the one we are to 
 honor to-night. 
 
 In my imagination I hear in the distance the joy- 
 ous shouts of the miners of northern Michigan, and 
 the glad acclaim of the farmers, and the thrilling 
 cheers of the manufacturing and laboring men all 
 over our great State, indorsing and exulting over the 
 victory and the record of Hon. James McMillan, that 
 noble gentleman, that distinguished statesman, that 
 honored citizen of Detroit ; and in behalf of all the 
 varied industries of Michigan I most heartily second 
 the nomination of Senator McMillan. 
 
 Mk. SHAW. Mr. Chairman, I support the nom- 
 ination of Hon. James McMillan to succeed himself 
 as United States Senator from Michigan because he 
 is a Republican; because he is a broad-gauge man in 
 politics as well as in business ; because his record is 
 strong and clean ; and because my constituency and 
 the whole State of Michigan demand his nomination 
 and election to the great office he has so grandly 
 filled for the past six years. 
 
 Mr. PAETRIDGtE. Mr. Chairman, it is an honor 
 and it gives me great pleasure to support the nom- 
 
60 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 ination of Senator McMillan to succeed himself for 
 the full term of six years from the fourth of March 
 next. 
 
 Unfortunately I am suffering from such a severe 
 cold that I cannot say very much ; but fortunately it 
 is not necessary to make any extended remarks. 
 
 Senator McMillan needs no introduction to this 
 body, nor to the people of this State, nor to the great 
 body of people in this country ; his name and fame 
 are not unknown in any part of our land. He ranks 
 easily with the leading statesmen and philanthropists 
 of our times, and enjoys the rare distinction of hav- 
 ing served his State for six years in the United States 
 Senate, and instead of losing popularity he has con- 
 tinued to gain in popularity, until at the present 
 time no one throughout the length and breadth of 
 the State is found opposing his renomination. 
 
 Mk. chamberlain. Mr. Chairman, as a rep- 
 resentative of a district whose great mineral wealth 
 has tended to the glory and prosperity of our 
 fair State, as a representative of the people of 
 the famed Gogebic Range and legislative district, 
 whose hospitality and warmth of heart for our 
 fellow citizens of the less vigorous sections of 
 the Lower Peninsula the freezing elements of the 
 north can never chill, and who have never failed 
 to express in an unmistakable voice their loyalty 
 
FREMONT G. CHAMBERLAIN. 61 
 
 to Republican principles and to the deserving leaders 
 of the Republican party, I rise with very great pleas- 
 ure to second the nomination of our honored leader 
 from Wayne for United States Senator for the full 
 term of six years. 
 
 The people of the country above the Straits know 
 full well the measure at which to appreciate the ser- 
 vices of the gentleman who, we all know, is to be the 
 unanimous choice of this caucus. We know what 
 his services have been, not only to his party as its 
 head in Michigan, but also how well he has dis- 
 charged, in the halls of Congress, that trust which was 
 imposed upon him six years ago. We have watched 
 him as he took a foremost rank among the Senators 
 of the United States, and we do not have to be told 
 of the high value which his associates in the Upper 
 House at Washington put upon his preeminent qual- 
 ities of strong common sense and keen business 
 judgment. 
 
 I have said that I speak for the Gogebic country ; 
 but, Mr. Chairman, I feel, as I mentally review the 
 progress of Republicanism in northern Michigan for 
 the past ten years, that I can say, with all diffidence, 
 that I speak on this occasion for every district in the 
 Upper Peninsula. 
 
 From the eastern shores of Erie to where the silver 
 waves of old Superior do forever break against the 
 rock-bound coast of Houghton and Gogebic, there is a 
 
62 THE CAUCUS OF 1S95. 
 
 universal demand for the renomination of that mag- 
 nificent type of American manhood, American in- 
 tegrity, American honor, and American citizenship, 
 Hon. James McMillan of Michigan. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, I take great pleasure in seconding 
 his nomination. 
 
 Mr. PRESTON. Mr. Chairman, I take no little 
 pride in being one of the four men who will have 
 the honor of having voted twice for the nomination 
 and election of Senator McMillan. Six years ago, 
 at a Senatorial caucus held in this hall, I had the 
 privilege and pleasure of voting for the nomination 
 of James McMillan as the Republican candidate for 
 United States Senator. At that time the Repub- 
 licans of Michigan were unanimous in favor of his 
 election. To-day, after his six years of service, the 
 people of the State, without regard to party, are, I 
 believe, very nearly unanimous in favor of his reelec- 
 tion. They desire a continuance of that care and 
 attention which he has at all times given to their 
 interests, and they have confidence in his ability to 
 guard well the great business interests of his State. 
 Mr. Chairman, on behalf of every Republican and 
 almost every citizen of the Twenty-first Senatorial 
 District, on behalf of the active Republicans through- 
 out the State, who appreciate the splendid servdces 
 which he has rendered to the Republican party, on 
 
BYRON 8. WAITK 63 
 
 behalf of the people generally, who appreciate the 
 services which as United States Senator he has ren- 
 dered to Michigan, I support the nomination of Hon. 
 James McMillan. 
 
 Me. WAITE. Mr. Chairman, I do not suppose that 
 anything I can say will add to the name or fame of 
 James McMillan, but I desire on behalf of the people 
 whom I represent in that empire of the north to pay 
 tribute in kind words to his sterling worth, not only 
 as a representative of an intelligent people but as 
 a man. We have watched with interest his course, 
 and approve of his untiring zeal in the cause of, and 
 devotion to, the great principles of Republicanism, 
 which under the fostering care and guidance of such 
 men as he must become universal and eternal. 
 
 We believe that he possesses the attributes of true 
 statesmanship, the ability to perceive what is just 
 and right, and the courage to advocate what he be- 
 lieves against a torrent of opposition. We are con- 
 fident the business and moral interests of this great 
 State are safe in his hands. My people recognize no 
 system of philosophy that would repudiate a tried 
 and faithful servant or a kind and trusted friend. We 
 believe that, 
 
 " If friends thou hast and their adoption tried, 
 Grapple them to thy heart with hooks of steel." 
 
64 THE CAUCUS OF 1805. 
 
 I am proud to state that I also am one of the four 
 members of the present Legislature who voted for 
 James McMillan for Senator six years ago, and we 
 can safely say our confidence has not been betrayed ; 
 hence there is but one sentiment and one voice from 
 beyond the inland sea, and that is for his renomina- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. KILPATKICK. Mr. Chairman, in supporting 
 the nomination of Senator McMillan to be his own 
 successor in the exalted position which he now holds, 
 it is very gratifying to know that one is supporting 
 a candidate sure to be nominated without a dissent- 
 ing voice, and it is also gratifying to know that his 
 nomination has already been ratified by the people 
 he has so faithfully represented, by over one hundred 
 thousand majority. Yet he is not an orator, and has 
 not attained his present high public favor and prom- 
 inence as a great public debater, but rather as a 
 man of high business attainments and of broad, 
 comprehensive views of public affairs and of the 
 wants and needs of his country in the condition in 
 which he finds it to-day. 
 
 When a great wrong was legalized by the laws of 
 the United States, the eloquence of Charles Sumner, 
 in the Senate halls, aroused the conscience of the 
 Northern people to resist the demands of an institu- 
 tion which, when unable to break down those walls of 
 
WILLIAM M. KILPATRIGK. 65 
 
 resistance biiilded to protect the free and untainted soil 
 of this land from its curse, instigated rebellion against 
 the Government under which it had been protected. 
 And it was the strong will and emphatic and deter- 
 mined utterances of the fearless and patriotic Zach- 
 ariah Chandler that gave confidence to the friends of 
 this Union in the dark days of civil strife. Mr. Chair- 
 man, the dangers that threatened the destruction of 
 our institutions have passed away, and loyal peace 
 blesses all the land within the borders of our country. 
 Different questions, but of vast importance, con- 
 front us to-day. The great business interests of our 
 country are in peril, and these times are calling for 
 clear heads to comprehend the material and financial 
 conditions of our country, and to project remedial 
 measures for the relief of the people and the Gov- 
 ernment, and to avert the greatest dangers that 
 threaten us. 
 
 When all kinds of financial schemes and wild 
 monetary vagaries are advocated, and find credulous 
 believers, and when States where want of socks 
 passes for statesmanship and whiskers go for brains 
 send Congressmen and Senators to Washington to 
 advocate ruinous legislation; when gold is brought 
 in at the front door of the United States Treasury 
 by the sale of Government bonds, and is immediately 
 taken out at the back door by the presentation and 
 exchange of treasury notes, we want men like James 
 
66 THE CAUCUS OF ISOo. 
 
 McMillan, who, by the application of sound business 
 principles to the affairs of the country, will save us 
 from National bankr-uptcy, and bring back to the 
 people that degree of prosperity enjoyed by them 
 before confidence was destroyed by the success of a 
 combination of incompetency and modern "isms." 
 And to men of balanced minds and clean hands do 
 we look for the hoped-for relief, and I, Mr. Chairman, 
 take pleasure to-night in supporting the nomination 
 of James McMillan, who, by the union of sound busi- 
 ness principles with honesty and sagacity, has risen 
 through a life of honorable endeavor to the highest 
 position in the gift of the people of this State. 
 
 Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. Chaii'man, I count it an 
 honor to be asked to say a word in behalf of Mich- 
 igan's friend and Senator, James McMillan, and I 
 accept the honor with a feeling of pride that there 
 comes from all over this great Commonwealth a 
 unanimous indorsement of the man and a general 
 request that the reward for his labors and his loyalty 
 be an unquestioned return to the Capitol at Wash- 
 ington for the renewal and pushing forward of his 
 efforts in behalf of Michigan. 
 
 That a man should be twice elected to the United 
 States Senate without a dissenting voice in his party 
 is a distinction that comes to but few, and our be- 
 loved State can pronounce no greater honor. It is a 
 
JOB T. CAMPBELL. 67 
 
 pleasure, too, that here the honor is a well earned 
 one. Both the State and the Senator can be proud 
 of this unquestioned unanimity. It is a happy cir- 
 cumstance that this broad State is represented and 
 that her interests are defended by a broad man. 
 
 We are not at this hour called to indorse a novice, 
 or to support a man who has been tried and at any 
 time found remiss in his duty as he saw it. But 
 rather we are assembled here to say " Well done " to a 
 faithful, hard-working, honest, able, tender-hearted, 
 and benevolent public servant; and to express the 
 confidence of his constituents that he always desires 
 and strives to make the State of his adoption fore- 
 most among her sister States in all that can con- 
 tribute to the happiness and success of her two and 
 a quarter millions of people. 
 
 During the six years that James McMillan has 
 represented us in the Senate of the United States, 
 has any one heard that Michigan's interests have 
 been neglected I— that as a State she has at any time 
 been compelled to lower her arm or bow her head ? — 
 that she has not received splendid recognition from 
 the general government 1 No, gentlemen ; her every 
 interest, from her bleakest rocks to her sunniest 
 farms, from her busiest harbors to her liveliest in- 
 dustrial centers, has been carefully guarded and 
 wisely aided. 
 
 But some may say that the Senator is of great 
 
68 THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 
 
 wealth, and so disqualified. I share in the opinion 
 that there is danger from too many wealthy men in 
 the Senate, as there would be from too many of any 
 other class. Yet, in this case, after a trial of six 
 years, no man can say with an iota of proof that 
 Senator McMillan's sympathies are not always with 
 the poor man and the laborer. He is wealthy ; and 
 there are needy people all over the State and even 
 beyond its borders who are thanking their God that 
 he is so. His benevolences have been felt by the 
 poor, and by the deserving educational institutions 
 of the State, until to-day thousands are for that 
 reason blessing the name of James McMillan. 
 
 No other man has a better understanding of our 
 interests and our relations to the great dominion 
 that lies along our borders than has he. His busi- 
 ness life and experiences have closely associated him 
 with the history and the prosperity of our State. 
 
 In brief, from his youth all his ambitions, all his 
 labors, have directed him into the very activities and 
 sympathies that we here represent. We can do 
 nothing worthier than to unanimously return him to 
 his seat at Washington. 
 
 Mr. JAMISON. Mr. Chairman, nothing that I 
 could say would add to that which has already 
 been said in behalf of the reelection of Hon. James 
 McMillan to succeed himself in the Senate of the 
 
JULIUS M. JAMISON. 69 
 
 United States. I wish to say, however, that I fully 
 indorse all that has been said of this business man 
 and statesman. Kent County's delegation is unan- 
 imously of the same opinion ; the entire people 
 of the State of Michigan indorse the same senti- 
 ments. Indeed, it is not too much to assert that the 
 people of this great Nation are unanimous in the 
 opinion that Michigan should return its senior mem- 
 ber to the United States Senate. He has earned his 
 place and fame among the great men of the Nation 
 because of his business habits and industry, of which 
 we have so truthfully heard to-night. Words are 
 empty as compared with action. Let us be no less 
 businesslike than the business man whom we pro- 
 pose to nominate to-night ; and it seems to me that 
 the proper emphasis of the many words in behalf of 
 him whom we propose to honor, and to honor whom 
 is to honor the State and Nation, is that this Caucus 
 nominate this business man by acclamation. 
 
 I therefore move you, Mr. Chairman, the nomi- 
 nation of Hon. James McMillan by acclamation 
 to succeed himself in the Senate of the United 
 States. 
 
 The chairman. Gentlemen of the Caucus, all 
 who favor the renomination of James McMillan, will 
 please rise. 
 
 All the members of the Caucus arose. 
 
70 THE CAUCUS OF 1896. 
 
 Then the Chairman, amid great applause, formally 
 announced the action of the Caucus ; and on motion 
 of Mr. Chamberlain, the Chairman was authorized 
 to appoint a committee of three persons to notify the 
 nominee of the result, and to request his presence. 
 The Chair appointed Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. McLaugh- 
 lin, and Mr. A. H. Chilver as such committee ; and 
 shortly they returned, accompanied by Mr. McMil- 
 lan, who was presented to the Chairman by Mr. 
 Chamberlain, and to the Caucus by Mr. Barnard. 
 Mr. McMillan spoke as follows : 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Memhers of the Eepuhlican Cau- 
 cus : Your committee has informed me of the result 
 of the Caucus, and I can assure you that no one could 
 appreciate more than I do the distinguished honor 
 you propose to confer upon me for the second time. 
 
 It was a great compliment that the Republican 
 Caucus paid me six years ago when it nominated 
 me by acclamation, but the action taken by you to- 
 night is, if possible, a greater compliment, for it 
 gives me the assurance that my services dui-ing the 
 past six years, both in Washington and in Michigan, 
 have been more than appreciated, and have been 
 acceptable to the Republicans of the State. 
 
 During the next few years many important matters 
 will be brought before Congress, and if the Legisla- 
 ture confirms the action taken by you to-night, it 
 
THE CAUCUS OF 1895. 71 
 
 will be my earnest desire to do my part in framing 
 legislation that will result in restoring confidence 
 and bringing back prosperity not only to our own 
 State but also to every State in the Union. 
 
 We must remember, however, that this result can- 
 not be fully accomplished until the Republican party 
 has control not only of the Legislative, but also of 
 the Executive Department of the Government. 
 
 I am confident, however, that one year from next 
 November will bring about that result. 
 
 I thank you most sincerely for your very compli- 
 mentary vote, and for your confidence in me ; and I 
 also thank you and the ladies and gentlemen present 
 for the very kind and cordial welcome given to me 
 this evening. 
 
 This brief speech was received with enthusiasm, 
 and at its close three cheers were given for Senator 
 McMillan. 
 
IN THE SENATE AND IN THE HOUSE. 
 
IN THE STATE SENATE. 
 
 [ From the Senate Jotirnal.] 
 
 State of Michigan, Senate Chambek, ^ 
 Lansing, Mich., Jan. 15, 1895. ) 
 
 [ Special Okdek.] 
 
 THE President announced that the hour of 2:30 
 p. M. had arrived, the time fixed by resolution of 
 the Senate for the naming on the part of the Senate 
 of a person for Senator in the Congress of the United 
 States, from the State of Michigan, for the full term 
 of six years from the fourth day of March next, and 
 also the naming of a person for Senator in the Con- 
 gress of the United States, from the State of Michi- 
 gan, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. 
 Francis B. Stockbridge. 
 
 The Senate then proceeded by a viva voce vote to 
 name a person for Senator in the Congress of the 
 United States, for the full term of six years from the 
 4th day of March next. 
 
 75 
 
76 JiY THE STATE SENATE. 
 
 The Secretary announced that there had been 32 
 votes cast, all of which were for James McMillan.* 
 
 * The senators voting were : Messrs. Barnard, Barnum, Bialy, Briggs, 
 Brundage, Clapp, Crittenden, Earle, Eaton, French, Gaige, Jamison, 
 Janes, Jewell, Johnson, Keeler, Kilpatrick, McLaughlin, Martin, 
 Mason, Merriman, Pascoe, Prescott, Preston, Sbaw, Sheldon, Smalley, 
 Thompson, Townsend, Warner, Wheeler, Watts; in all 32, a full 
 Senate. 
 
IN THE HOUSE. 
 
 [ From the House Journal.'] 
 
 State of Michigan, House of Repeesentatives, 
 Lansing, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1895. 
 
 THE Speaker announced that the hour had arrived 
 for the Special Order, being the naming of a can- 
 didate for the ofSce of Senator in the Congress of the 
 United States, in the place of Hon. James McMillan, 
 whose term of office expires on the fourth day of 
 March next ; and also the naming of a candidate for 
 the office of Senator, in the Congress of the United 
 States, in the place of Hon. Francis B. Stockbridge, 
 deceased. 
 
 The Speaker announced that the candidate for Sen- 
 ator in the place of Hon. James McMillan would be 
 first named, and after that a candidate for the office 
 of Senator in the place of Hon. Francis B. Stock- 
 bridge, deceased, would be named. 
 
 The House then proceeded by viva voce vote to 
 name a person for Senator in Congress for the six 
 
 11 77 
 
78 IN THE HOUSE. 
 
 years following the fourth day of March next, with 
 the following result : 
 
 The Clerk announced that there had been 98 votes 
 cast, of which James McMillan had received 98 votes.* 
 
 When the name of Representative John Donovan, 
 of Bay County [the only Democrat in the legis- 
 lature], was called, Mr. Donovan said: 
 
 Mr. Speaker : I desire to explain my vote on this 
 occasion. As a Democrat, I rely upon the justice of 
 
 * The members voting were : Messrs. Allen, Amidon, Aplin, Baird, 
 Belknap, Benoit, Bradbury, Brown, Camburn, Campbell, H. F., 
 Campbell, J. T., Cathro, Chamberlain, Chilver, Clark, Cook, Cousins, 
 Covell, Curtis, G. M., Curtis, M. S., Davis, Donovan, Edgar, Ferguson, 
 Fisk, Fitzgerald, Flood, Foote, Foster, Fuller, Gordon, Graham, Harris, 
 Henderson, Henry, Heri-ig, Hicks, Hilton, Holden, Holmes, Hoyt, 
 Huggett, Jones, Kelly, W. D., Kelly, W. J., Kempf, Kent, Kimmis, 
 Kingsland, Kingsley, Latimer, Lee, Linderman, Lonsbury, Madill, 
 Marsh, Marsilje, Matthews, McNall, Miller, Moore, Morse, Mulvey, 
 Norman, Otis, Parkinson, Partridge, Pearson, Peer, Perry, Place, 
 Redfern, Rice, Rich, Richardson, Robertson, Robinson, Rogner, Rose, 
 Rowley, Saxton, Sherwood, Smiley, Smith, Taylor, Voorheis, Wagar, 
 Waite, Ware, Weekes, Westcott, Whitney, Wildey, Williams, Wolter, 
 Wood, Woodruff, Wortley. On Thursday, January 17, Mr. Waldo, 
 arising in the House to a question of privilege, stated that on the day 
 when the vote was taken for United States Senators he was unavoid- 
 ably absent, and that had he been present it would have afforded 
 him great pleasure to name Hon. James McMillan and Hon. Julius 
 C. Burrows as his choice for those offices. A similar statement was 
 made by Mr. Stoll, on Tuesday, January 29. The House contains 100 
 members. 
 
IN THE HOUSE. 79 
 
 our cause. I also rely upon the magnanimity and 
 intelligence of the Republican party generally. I felt 
 that they might see the error of their ways by this 
 time, and with their usual candor and their desire to 
 be always on the right side of every question, that 
 they would come over bodily and help us to elect two 
 United States Senators, and thus contril)ute their 
 portion to the perpetuity of American institutions ; 
 but I find that I am somewhat mistaken and that we 
 shall be obliged to bear the burden somewhat longer. 
 Yet I desire to show to the members of this House 
 that the Democratic party can be magnanimous as 
 well as right, that we do not desire to mar the pleas- 
 ure that has characterized the deliberations thus far. 
 I therefore, with the full approbation, and at the re- 
 quest of our own candidate, Hon. Edwin F. Uhl, 
 cast my vote for Hon. James McMillan, not because 
 I consider him a better man than Mr. Uhl; not 
 because he is a Eepublican or a Democrat, but be- 
 cause of his sound business principles, and as an 
 earnest of Michigan's gratitude to a man who has 
 served her interests and her whole people so ably and 
 so well, and because I feel that in doing so I honor 
 Mr. Uhl equally with Mr. McMillan. 
 
IN THE JOINT CONVENTION. 
 
 ON January 16, 1895, at 12 o'clock, the two Houses 
 met in Representative Hall, in joint convention. 
 The journals of the proceedings of January 15th in 
 each the Senate and House were read, and Lieuten- 
 ant Governor Alfred Milnes, presiding over the joint 
 convention, announced that the two Houses had met 
 in joint convention to compare the proceedings of 
 the Senate and House of Representatives of yester- 
 day, relative to the naming of a person for Senator 
 in the Congress of the United States, for six years 
 from the 4th day of March next, and to ascertain if 
 the same person had received a majority of all the 
 votes cast in each House for such office, and thereby 
 an election had taken place. 
 
 The President announced that it appeared from the 
 records that 130 votes had been cast for the office of 
 Senator in the Congress of the United States, for the 
 term of six years from the fourth day of March next, 
 of which James McMillan had received 130 votes. 
 Therefore, 66 votes being necessary to a choice, and 
 James McMillan having received 130 votes, it was ap- 
 
CREDENTIALS OF 1895. 81 
 
 parent and was now officially declared that James 
 McMillan, having received a majority of all the votes 
 cast yesterday, severally, in the two Houses (a quo- 
 rum being present and voting in each), and in the 
 aggregate, was duly elected to the office of Senator in 
 the Congress of the United States from the State of 
 Michigan, for the term of six years, commencing on 
 the fom-th day of March next. 
 
 The credentials of 1895, following the form pre- 
 scribed by the United States Senate, are as follows : 
 
 CREDENTIALS OF 1895. 
 
 To the President of the Senate 
 
 of the United States : 
 
 I, John T. Rich, Governor in and over the State of 
 Michigan, do hereby certify that 
 
 JAJMES MCMILLAN 
 
 ■was on the 15th day of January, A. D. 1895, duly elected Senator in the Con- 
 gress of the United States for the full term of six years begtaning on the 4th 
 day of March, A. D. 1895. 
 
 Done at the Capitol in the City of Lansing, this seventeenth day of Janu- 
 ary, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. 
 
 Great Seal 
 
 of the 
 
 State of Michigan. 
 
 JOHN T. RICH. 
 
 By the Governor, 
 
 WASHINGTON GARDNER, 
 Secretary of State. 
 
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