Senate of Minnesota: In the matter of the impeachment of Sherman Page, judge of the tenth judicial district. Ex-gov. Davis' closing argument for the respondent
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A treatise on international law: including American diplomacy
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Cushman Kellogg Davis was an American lawyer, governor of Minnesota and United States senator. His name is connected with the Granger Movement; Davis, Kellogg and Severance firm, one of the strongest in the Northwest and Dependent Pension.
Background
Cushman Kellogg Davis was born on June 16, 1838 at Henderson, New York, United States. He was the eldest of eight children. His father, Major Horatio Davis, a pioneer settler there, was of Puritan stock, while his mother, Clarissa F. (Cushman) Davis, was a direct descendant of Thomas and Mary (Allerton) Cushman, both of whom came early to Plymouth. Visiting New England only late in life, Davis “took great delight in his descent from the early settlers of Plymouth, and valued exceedingly the good-will of the people of Massachusetts” (Hoar, post).
Education
Davis received his formal education at Carroll College, an academy at Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1857.
Career
Davis was admitted to the bar and practised in Waukesha until he enlisted in 1862 as first lieutenant of Company B, 28th Wisconsin Infantry.
Frequently serving as judge-advocate, he was for a time adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. Gorman. He resigned his commission in 1864 and returned to Waukesha.
Moving to St. Paul, he joined his former commanding officer in the legal firm of Gorman & Davis. Adding politics to law, he was elected to the legislature in 1867, and was United States district attorney from 1868 to 1873. He was interested in the Granger Movement and his speech on “Modern Feudalism, ” an attack on railroads, was delivered before many audiences and even, by invitation, before the state legislature. Made available by his antirailroad stand, and brought forward as a result of internal faction in the Republican party, Davis was nominated for governor in 1873 and elected by a narrow majority. By preventing a bolt of Granger Republicans to the Anti-Monopoly-Democratic fusion ticket, he had accomplished the purpose of his backers.
“But the anti-monopolists were inevitably disappointed. They did not realize that the rhetoric of a lecturer could never be the policy of a governor”.
He did not seek a renomination in 1875, but was brought forward to contest the senatorial seat of the veteran Alexander Ramsey; the ensuing deadlock resulted in the choice of a third man.
For eleven years Davis, inactive in politics, devoted himself to his profession.
The ex-governor found an avocation in the study of Shakespeare, publishing a volume on The Law in Shakespeare (1884), and on the life of Napoleon.
He had not forsaken his political career, but awaited a favorable time for resuming it.
Elected United States senator in 1887, he was reelected in 1893 by a close vote, and again in 1899 with no serious opposition. As senator, Davis rarely participated in formal debates on the floor, but concentrated his efforts on committee work, especially in the Committee on Pensions, of which he was chairman from 1887 to 1893.
Whatever interest he had in the tariff, trust legislation, monetary questions, and the like, was manifested only by a rare remark, or by his vote.
He supported Cleveland in sending federal troops to Chicago in 1894, in the face of considerable Minnesota sentiment against this action, and thus strengthened his position with the upholders of law and order. In 1891 he became a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and here, throughout the remainder of his life, he found the most congenial part of his public work.
In bringing before the Senate the joint resolution evoked by Cleveland’s Venezuelan message, he reaffirmed adherence to the Monroe Doctrine but maintained that throughout the controversy there had been no danger of war between Great Britain and the United States, for interests of both countries “in the great and common cause of civilization” were “too enormous and too vital to each of them to bring about such a consummation”.
In 1897, when Sherman became secretary of state, Davis as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations was brought into intimate contact with the renewed project of Hawaiian annexation, advocated the ratification of the treaty of 1897, and, when that failed, led the fight to push through the joint resolution in the face of a determined filibuster.
On the Cuban issue, Davis was in close touch with the administration throughout. He introduced in the Senate the joint resolution authorizing the President to intervene in Cuba and led in opposing a minority which would recognize the independence of Cuba, maintaining that such action would infringe upon executive prerogative.
He was convinced that the “Spanish war was a just and necessary war”.
As one of the Paris peace commissioners, he joined with Reid and Frye in believing that some of the Philippines should be retained by the United States, but, according to Reid, was not at first insistent on retaining all.
Once committed to the idea of retention, he even objected to paying the twenty millions to Spain. The Philippines and Hawaii, he believed, would protect the western coast of the United States from an inundation of Chinese.
He was, however, opposed to tariff barriers between the United States and the new dependencies. The situation arising from the Boxer Rebellion in China filled him with alarm lest it might lead to a general war. His career, which some thought might bring him to the presidency, was suddenly terminated while he was participating in the campaign of 1900. His Treatise on International Law, including American Diplomacy (1901), was published posthumously.
Achievements
Cushman's firm, Davis, Kellogg & Severance, was one of the strongest in the Northwest, while Davis himself was regarded as a particularly outstanding member of the bar in his state.
He was particularly instrumental in pushing through the Dependent Pension Bill in 1890.
He was “among the first senators clearly to perceive and to explain the hidden pitfalls of the proposed arbitration treaty between Great Britain and the United States”.
Davis strenuously opposed President Cleveland’s foreign policy; advocated the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands; and opposed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892 which he characterized as “flagitious and ferocious legislation”
Connections
In 1864 Davis married Laura Bowman. Subsequently a divorce by agreement was obtained, and in 1880 he married Anna Malcolm Agnew of St. Paul, Minnesota.
