The evening times., 1900-10-22

/ House Of Representatives. Mr. Sherman
/ secured the passage Of a bill authorizing
the issue Of what are known as the Treas
ury notes of 1866.
Elected to the Senate.
On the resignation of Salmon P. Chase
he was elected tc his place in the Senate
, and took his seat on March 4. 1851. He
was reelected Senator in 1867 and 1873.
During most OF his Senatorial career ne
was Chairman OF the Committee on FL
nance, and served also on the Committees
on agriculture, the Pacific Railroads the
judiciary, and Patents.
The position of John Sherman, the SEN
atoF. and William T. Sherman, the soldier.
during the civil war was unique.
1t was due to John Sherman that Con
"a. u "a Sherman herman VINO was graduate of
West Point, and had resigned in 1854 re-
turned TO the Army He was wanted as
an executive officer in the War Depart-
lnent when the war broke out General
sherman had not made a marked success
IN private LIE and returned to Washing
| ton about the time his brother was elect
ed TO the Senate. Having spent some time
IN the South, General Sherman was deep
! ly impressed with the certainty of var
and OF its possible magnitude
BY ali means, wrote Senator Sherman
in a hasty midnight letter of the 18th of
April, 1861. take advantage of the pres
ent disturbances TO get into the ARMY.
~here you will at once put yourself in a
nigh position for life" In the same let
ter Mir. Sherman expressed the belief that
the war was necessary. He predicted that
the Federal forces would have prelimina-
ry defeats, but that in the end thew would
be successful. For me- he wrote TO his
| brother, I am for war that will either
| establish or overthrow the Government
| and viii purify the atmosphere of politi-
| cal life. We need such war, and we
] have 1t now"
/ John Sherman, the statesman, in the
| midst OF his arduous duties. watched with
! Jealous care over the career OF his broth
| er, to whom he was devotedly attached.
| He saw him enter the service as colonel
| of the Thirteenth Infantry and suffer de-
| feat at the first battle of Bull Run He
watched him when. three months later he
! was made a brigadier general and sent to
! Kentucky, and believed his brother was
! right when he secuted the idea of calling
! out 5000 men, contending that it would
require 200,GG0 to end the struggle in
! Kentucky alone. All the time the fghting
! brother was under Grant in the West
/ through his campaign in the Mississippj
| NaIley, and On his march to the sea, John
| Sherman wrote letters OF advice as fre-
| qeuntly as conditions would permit
| After the fall of Fort Sumter, under the
| call 9f President Lincoln for rs 600 troops,
| Senstor Sherman rendered his services to
| Gen Robert Patterson was appointed
a1de-de-camp without pay. and remained
| with the Ohio regiment till the meeting Of
| Congress in July. After the close of this
! extra session he returned to Ohio and re-
/ ceived authority from Gov. William
| Denison to raise a brigade Largely aft
| his own expense, he recruited two reei-
ments of infantry. squadron of cavalry
and battery of artillery, comprising .. 800
men. This force served during the whole
| of the civil war and was known as ..Sher-
mans Brigade"
On the suspension Of specie payments
in January, 1852, the issue of United States
notes was deemed eXpedient, and The
| question of making them legal tender was
not at first, it is said, received with fav-
| or. Mainly through the efforts of Sec
retary Chase and Senator Sherman this
feature Of the bill authorizing their is
| sue was carried through Congress. In the
| debates on this question Senator Sherman
said:
81 do believe there is pressing neces-
! sity that these demand notes should be
/ made legal tender, if we want to ayeid
! the evils of a deprecated and a dishnn-
ored paper currency | do believe we have
| the constitutional power to pass such a
provision and that the public safety now
| demands its exercise
| Senator Sherman advocated the passage