He manifested there the qualities that have since given him so much distinction in the Senate.

He was understood to favor what was called Revenue Reform, and moderation in the exercise of all doubtful national powers.
But his chief distinction has been gained by a service of thirty years in the Senate.

He was out of public life two years, and then was elected to the Senate, where he has been kept by the State of Iowa, maintaining the confidence of his State and of his associates in public life.

During all that time he has done what no other man in the country, in my judgment, could have done so well.

He has been a member of the great Committee on Appropriations for thirty years, most of the time Chairman, and for twenty-six years a member of the Committee on Finance.