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Then I realized what a hold Hatton Sumners, this little mild man, had on them. He was Judge Sumners to them. They always called him Judge. He had been a judge in his state and he was a learned ran. Many of the members of the Judiciary Committee were only half-baked lawyers. They had respect for this learned man. He acted like a man who was to have respect. He folded his fingers in front of him and contemplated situations. He wrinkled up his brows and thought about them. When he would lift his hand, they would calm down their voices. He didn't permit any denouncing. He didn't permit any speeches. They didn't start to make any. Apparently he told them beforehand that this was purely a hearing, that they were at liberty to question me, to question the document, to question the facts in the case, but we were going to stick to the impeachment proceedings, to the content of the resolution and to the content of my answer. They were not to go all over Robin Hood's barn, ask me my views about this, that or the other thing that was entirely foreign to it. He had told me that if anybody did ask me I must decline to answer matters that had no relationship to the matter in hand. Of course, I would have known how to do that anyhow.

It went all right. I felt, after the questioning