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xxii profound knowledge of the law, of vast research and of great literary ability. Among others may be mentioned those upon a petition to the Massachusetts Legislature for the removal of Joseph M. Day as judge of probate and insolvency for Barnstable County in March, 1881; in the matter of the Pacific National Bank of Boston before the banking and currency committee of the United States House of Representatives, March 22, 1884; and for the claimant in the case of the Berdan Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company of New York vs. the United States. He is the author of “Educational Topics and Institutions,” 1859; “Speeches Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery,” collected and published in 1867; “Why I am a Republican,” a history of the Republican Party to 1884, republished in 1888; “The Lawyer, Statesman and Soldier,” 1887; and the “Constitution of the United States,” embracing the substance of the leading decisions of the Supreme Court in which the several articles, sections and clauses have been examined, explained, and interpreted, 1896. In 1888 he wrote a pamphlet on “Protection as a Public Policy,” for the American Protective Tariff League; on April 2, 1889, he read a paper on “The Progress of American Independence,” before the New York Historical Society; and in February, 1896, he published a pamphlet on “The Venezuelan Question and the Monroe Doctrine.”

Mr. Boutwell has probably argued more cases involving international law than any other living man, and in this department ranks among the ablest and strongest that this country has ever produced. For more than forty years he was a prominent figure before the bar of the United States Courts at Washington, where he achieved eminence