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 bland orator and successful lawyer, who sat at my side, whether it would be safe to poke a little fun at Hughes or whether he was so stiff and narrow as to fail to understand it. “You will be entirely safe,” said Beck, who further gave me his judgment that the governor was really a very worthy man, with high motives. I introduced him as a man who had made a reputation over the country by trying to do in New York what we had accomplished in Pennsylvania, and some other chaff of like character, and he bore it with great equanimity, and made a good speech.

In the course of this speech he said he “had improved by degrees,” referring to his recent doctorate. I introduced to him a number of persons, among them a preacher who took that inopportune time to urge upon him a new edition of the testament, and he still behaved with good nature and self-restraint.

John Scott, a most worthy Philadelphia lawyer, son of United States Senator John Scott, told me, November 10, 1910, the following facts:

He goes to the Canadian woods every summer. There he has an Indian guide of whom he is very fond, named Louis Gill, of the tribe of Abenakies. One day this Indian said to Scott:

“Do you know Senator Cu-ay?”

“Yes, I know Senator Quay.”

“He is one of our tribe,” the Indian affirmed with a glad smile.

“Does he take any interest in your affairs?” asked Scott.

“Yes,” replied Gill, “when our Catholic Church burned down we wrote to him and he sent us $5,000. He is a good man.”

January 5, 1914, F. W. Fleitz, deputy attorney general Rh