During the latter term he introduced fifty bills of importance, of which about thirty passed the senate, and of the latter number more than half became laws. In June, 1891, Colby was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as Assistant Attorney General of the United States, his duties embracing, among other important litigation, the defense of claims for damages against the government and Indian tribes. These involved over ten thousand cases in the court of claims and the United States supreme court, and over US$40,000,000. Upon his retirement from the United States Department of Justice, he was employed by the Creeks, Cherokees, and Seminoles, three of the tribes in the Indian Territory, as their attorney in Washington, D.C., and during this employment he obtained a judgment against the government and in favor of the Cherokee Nation for US$6,742,000. Since the declaration of World War I, Colby tendered his services to the United States and to the state of Nebraska, and requested to be recalled from the retired list into active service. He has been placed on the list of officers subject to call by the Department of War, and, having the personal assurance of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker that his services will be required in the near future, he has passed his physical examination for such service. In the meantime, he served as government agent and attorney for the draft board, as chairman of the Gage County Council of Defense, as a member of the War Works Committee, and took an active part in the campaigns for the several Liberty Loans, the Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. drives in the county and district. He also returned to practicing law in several states. From 1921 through 1924, he served as a Nebraska district judge. Personal life Colby married Clara Dorothy Bewick in 1872 and they removed to Beatrice, Nebraska where she founded, published, and edited The Woman’s Tribune, a suffragist newspaper. They adopted a boy, Clarence (born ca. 1882), in 1885 from an Orphan Train. In 1891, Colby returned home from the Wounded Knee with a Sioux baby, Zintkala Nuni ("Lost Bird"), whom he named Marguerite (or Margaret) Elizabeth and whom he adopted while his wife was away lecturing. A third child, Ada Mary, documented in Bewick family papers, was also adopted; she died when she was less than a year old. Colby and Clara divorced March 30, 1906. There were