I never thought of this man again until I was overwhelmed the next day by learning what a shameful use he had made of the confidence I had reposed in him and the money I had entrusted to his care.

This is all, gentlemen.

To the absolute truth of every detail of my statement I solemnly swear, and I call Him to witness who is the Truth and the loving Father of all whose lips abhor false speaking; I pledge my honor as a Senator, that I have spoken but the truth.

May God forgive this wicked man as I do.
Mr.Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction.

Why did you deal in bank bills on this particular occasion ?" The Chairman--"The gentleman will please to remember that the Committee is conducting this investigation." Mr.Noble--"Then will the Committee ask the question ?" The Chairman--"The Committee will--when it desires to know." Mr.Noble--"Which will not be daring this century perhaps." The Chairman--"Another remark like that, sir, will procure you the attentions of the Sergeant-at-arms." Mr.Noble--"D--n the Sergeant-at-arms, and the Committee too!" Several Committeemen--"Mr.Chairman, this is Contempt!" Mr.Noble--"Contempt of whom ?" "Of the Committee! Of the Senate of the United States!" Mr.Noble--"Then I am become the acknowledged representative of a nation.
You know as well as I do that the whole nation hold as much as three-fifths of the United States Senate in entire contempt .-- Three-fifths of you are Dilworthys." The Sergeant-at-arms very soon put a quietus upon the observations of the representative of the nation, and convinced him that he was not, in the over-free atmosphere of his Happy-Land-of-Canaan: The statement of Senator Dilworthy naturally carried conviction to the minds of the committee .-- It was close, logical, unanswerable; it bore many internal evidences of its, truth.