This included representatives of a good many States that afterward were the most loyal supporters of the tariff policy.

Butler showed me one day a call he had prepared, saying: "How do you think something like this would answer ?" It was a call for a caucus of all persons who desired a reform in the tariff to meet to nominate a candidate for Speaker.

I was never in Butler's confidence, and I suppose he showed me the paper with the expectation that I should tell Blaine.

Blaine circumvented the movement by giving assurances to the friends of revenue reform that he would make up a Committee of Ways and Means with a majority of persons of their way of thinking.

This ended Butler's movement.