[772] The Nation, June 25, 1885.

[773] Upon this committee Conkling was substituted in place of Logan, detained at home. Abram S. Hewitt was one of the House appointees.

[774] Clifford and Field were accounted Democrats, and Miller and Strong, Republicans.

[775] Bigelow, Life of Tilden, Vol. 2, p. 60.

[776] Bigelow, Life of Tilden, pp. 67-74.

[777] Manton Marble to the New York Sun, August 5, 1878.

[778] Bigelow, Life of Tilden, Vol. 2, p. 76.

[779] Ibid., pp. 76, 79, 80.

[780] New York Times, January 2, 1877.

[781] January 4.