These Committees with the Committee on the Judiciary of which General Butler was a member, and the Committee on Ways and Means, controlled the policy of the House on all the great questions then interesting the country.

Samuel Hooper had the third place on the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures.

But he was its dominant member and in a later Congress introduced the Bill for Reforming the Currency, a wise and salutary measure.

It is known, however, among ignorant people in some parts of the country as "The Crime of '73." Sumner and Wilson are so well known to the American people that it would be superfluous for me to attempt to describe either elaborately.

I have spoken of each at some length elsewhere.
Charles Sumner held a place in the public life of the country which no other man ever shared with him.