- fore a new Congress would convene, so that the millennium
was postponed a good three years at least.
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However, there were other interests and other delights
with which to occupy one's self meanwhile, not
the least of which was Mr. Butterworth himself.
He was then out of Congress and in Chicago as Solicitor
General of the World's Columbian Exposition,
for which Chicago was preparing. For a while
I was relieved from writing about politics, and assigned
to the World's Fair, and there were so many
distinguished men from all over the nation associated
in that enterprise that it was very much like politics
in its superficial aspects. There was, for instance,
the World's Columbian Commission, a body created
under the authority of Congress, composed of two
commissioners from each state, appointed by its
governor, and that body exactly the size of the
senate was like it in personnel and character. The
witty Thomas E. Palmer of Michigan was its president,
and there were among its membership such
men as Judge Lindsay, later senator from Kentucky,
Judge Harris of Virginia, who looked like George
Washington, and many other delightful and pungent
characters. But no personality among them all was
more interesting than Colonel James A. McKenzie,
Judge Lindsay's colleague from Kentucky. He was
tall and spare of frame, and his long moustache
and goatee, and the great black slouch hat he wore
