Ah, Salmon Portland Chase, Treasury Secretary under Lincoln, who, due to political disloyalty to the President, was kicked upstairs to Chief Justice. His first name was pronounced SAL-mon, not like the fish. It was an Americanization of the Hebrew Zalman. He was the father of Kate Chase, who married the alcoholic womanizer Senator Sprague of Rhode Island. Kate found love in the bed of Roscoe Conkling, the senator from New York, and became his mistress. The Gilded Age had its secrets.
We're oscillating between +4 and +5, which has me disappointed. I had hoped that we'd be at +10 with the conventions.
