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40 the house: "I want to be entirely fair with everyone, no matter on which side of the chamber he may sit. I think you will all agree that I am a tolerably sound partisan Republican, but I want to say here and now that no partisan advantage will ever accrue to my party through any unfair ruling of mine." No one has ever charged Speaker Henderson with unfairness.

Colonel Henderson is a man of patriotic impulses, a vigorous speaker, of conservative tendencies, and his public record on the great questions of legislation furnishes ample ground for confidence in his wisdom and firmness. His stand on the currency question has been unequivocally for sound money, and no abler champion of the development of American industries is to be found among his contemporaries. In his personal as well as in his public relations, he is earnest, generous, and loyal. With the undoubted integrity characteristic of his Scotch ancestry, he inherited a strength of will which has enabled him to endure petty annoyances with no manifestation of resentment, and to pursue steadfastly and unflinchingly the course of conduct marked out for him by conscience and good judgment.

He was married on March 4, 1866, to Miss Augusta A. Fox. He died at Dubuque, Iowa, February 25, 1906.