Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-13

little above par here The announcement
of the prospective per cents caused them
to rise, and within about three months the
whole two hundred millions were taken.
The credit of the country rose. and / got
par for my per cent bonds. Then Con-
gress met. ana thirteen bills We're introduce
ed to repeal the resumption act, and large
number of other bills were brought forta to
restore the unlimited coinage of the silver
dollar, which was then worth 50 cents in
gold This scared the investors, and the
subscriptions to the per cent bonds ceased.
AS Congress went on, however, it was seen
that these bills could not pass, and during
the next session the people saw that re-
sumption was to be fixed fact, and the 1
per cents again came up. I had sold
enough to give me a sufficient gold reserve,
and on the LIST of January, 1879 the gov
eminent was ready to give coin for all
legal tender notes. To our surprise one
seemed to want it. One well-known finan-
c:er of New York had said only a few
months before that he would give $4,000
to be at the head of the line on the day of
resumption. He could have gotten his
place for nothing 1t was late in the day,
only, that few stragglers came in and
asked for coin, and at the end of the first
day of resumption the government really
had more coin than it had in the morning. -
Senator Shermnn's Memoirs.
I am very fortunate in my visit to Sena-
tor Sherman at the present time. came to
Mansfield because had understood that he
his collection of private papers was greater
than that of any other man in public life.
During my talk with him he told me that he
was working among his papers, but he had
not as yet decided whether he would pub
lish book or not, and that he could not
allow me to state that he proposed doing
SO. He began the work, he said, with the
idea of making a collection of his speeches,
but he finds his material so vast ard of
| such varied and interesting nature that
he is still at sea as to what he will do with
it. His letters are numbered by the tens
Of thousands, and they embrace the names
Of every man who has been prominent in
the United States during the past forty
years. and of the greatest thinkers of all
parts Of the world. John Sherman has
been a part of every public movement in
the United States. and there is scarcely a
millionaire, a scientist or statesman
who has not consulted w1tlRhim. He has
fifteen volumes of autograph letters, each
of which is as big as dictionary, which
he has kept chiefly for the sake of the
names appended to them; and his .rivate
correspondence embraces large part of
the unwritten history of the past genera
ton. James G. Blaine was a man rather
of speeches than of deeds. John Sher-
man has been a man Of action, and still
he has made more speeches than Blaine
His public work began when Frank Pierce
was President, and he has been in the
very thick of affairs from that time to this.
He has always had large correspondence.
uOuUl WuetHeF lie HAS ever received d let
ter which he has not answered, and he has
been SO noted for his reserve that public
men have opened their minds and hearts
to him without restraint. In addition to
his vast correspondence he has saved his
torical material of all kinds. He has the
public speeches of the men of the past
fifty years gathered from pamphlets and
newspapers and bound into volumes, so
f. that they make library of themselves.
He has dozens Of volumes of newspaper
scraps about himself, some lauding him to
the skies and some damning him to hades.
His congressional speeches fill a score or
more of volumes, and, all told he has per-
haps the best collection of historical mate
rial in the United States.