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This business of Sulzer was the principal preoccupation of the Legislature that year of 1913 - the threats about Sulzer and the preliminary preoccupation with Sulzer - and particularly of the Senate. He was convicted on August 12th of that year. I don't know when they brought the articles of impeachment in, but there was a considerable period before that when it was the only thing they talked about. You couldn't get their ear for anything - legislation, nothing; general political matters, nothing. This had become a major preoccupation in their minds.

Jim Foley was married to Mr. Murphy's daughter -a very attractive young woman. Jim Foley was a peculiar kind of a Tammany politician. In the first place he was the “Black Irish” type. In Ireland they say, “Ah, sure you remember the Spanish Armada was wrecked on the west coast of Ireland, don't you? Some refugees got ashore.” That “Black Irish” type is very tall, very handsome, very dark, with very aquiline features. They don't have the regular Irish type of face. That's the red Irish, the Celtic Irish. I've seen many of this “Black Irish” type. They're very good looking and Foley was that type. He had a very, very aquiline beautiful profile. He was a very handsome man in a very serious way. There was nothing flippant about him. He was very well-educated too and he had a very fine, scholarly