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Smith interviewed Senator Carmack
today - & reports him all right.
He has been gone for 2 months &
is just back. Sulzer says that
he has a distinct promise from
Laliferro[?] of Florida & Dubois
from Idaho is for me - also
Heyburn from Idaho is sick
- he is strongly against me - but -
Sulzer told me that Penrose of
Penn. told him that he, now, would
not only vote for me, but intended
to say when the matter came up that
the most determined opposition to
me had come from the Copper people
in his state, but that he had fully
examined into the matter and was
now satisfied that his friends
were wrong & that I ought to be
confirmed. Dr. Whitehead
is here & he & Major Lacey
are at work. Frank Cushman
is "working" me, - but I know
that he is doing nothing & dont
care a damn!
