THE ROLL CALL

...The resolution was adopted by the House 137 to 181...

...When the tariff schedules were being voted on in the House, Dalzell voted in every case for the highest duty that was offered and against every reduction proposed in the duties reported by the Committee...

...One of the first System services in which Dalzell participated as a member of this committee was that of excluding from the list of privileged committees of the House the Committee on Banking and Currency, in order to prevent it from reporting banking and currency legislation distasteful to Wall Street and the banks...

...He again took a stand against "impertinent intrusion" on behalf of the public into the affairs of Big Business, by voting against a resolution requesting the President to transmit to Congress the reports of interstate corporations...

...For the System, exist the people, the government, the earth and the fullness thereof...

...He labored with Cannon to pack the conference committee so that it would accept the aldrich advances in the tariff...

...He voted to repeal the imprisonment penalty for railroad rebaters...

...Dalzell was assigned a place on the Committee on Pacific Railroads...

...In this session, too, he joined with Babcock in his effort to put through the infamous Pierre bill to increase the capital stock of the Washington Gas Light Company from $2,600,000 to nearly $8,000,000, without any added investment...

...Dalzell voted also in this Congress against a resolution authorizing the President to place trust-controlled products on the free list...

...In the Sixtieth Congress, Dalzell voted for and supported the Vseeland and Aldbich-Vreeland programs of currency reform for the System...

...The salary increases did not interfere with any "good thing" of the Steel Trust...

...On the Payne War Revenue Bill of this Congress, an amendment was offered requiring a reduction of seventy millions on the taxes on necessaries and providing an income tax...

...And he led the fight against the "impertinent intrusion" on behalf of the public proposed in a resolution to require the manufacturers of oleomargarine to report to Congress the materials of which their product was made...

...After the fight was over, after the insurgents had forced a reorganization of the rules committee, with the Speaker excluded from its membership, when the Republican caucus met to choose the members of a new committee, the System majority in that caucus chose Dalzell, by the second highest vote, to membership on the new Committee on Rules...

...In the Fifty-fifth Congress he voted in favor of the bill championed by the present Vice-President, Sherman, to promote railroad combinations in Indian Territory...

...As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Dalzell struggled consistently for the preservation of the excessive duties on iron and steel, but Chairman Payne and the majority of the Committee, mindful of public sentiment and the coming elections, determined that some of the useless and excessive "protection" must come off...

...Dalzell was one of the 44 members of the House who had the hardihood and unswerving System loyalty to vote for that amendment...

...A little man, devoid of personal magnetism, nerther prepossessing nor impressing in appearance, he moves about on the floor of the House with an assurance and a bearing of authority which to a stranger would seem wholly inexplicable presumption...

...The System control of Congress goes back to the election of its members...

...When Dalzell first entered Congress, the House was Democratic...

...As System Marshal of the House it had been his peculiar privilege for years, upon the opening of each Congress, to move the adoption of the cannon rules...

...Presumably in the interests of public economy, he voted against an appropriation of $100,000 for the construction of a gun foundry at the government navy yard at Washington, but he lost sight of public economy in voting for an increase of salaries of members of Congress from $5,000 to $7,500, and those of the Speaker of the House, the Vice-President and members of the Cabinet to $12,000 a year...

...He voted in favor of the bill desired by the Union Pacific Railroad to enable it to have a settlement of its indebtedness to the government, amounting to millions of dollars, by a commission, without publicity, and without report to or approval by Congress...

...The next Congress, the Fifty-first, was Republican...

...Whi'e he was not yet in a position to exercise influence in legislation he lost no time in displaying his colors...

...The bill passed the House, as the subsidy crowd said it would, by just three votes...

...The "impertinent intrusion" referred to the inquiries addressed by a Concessional committee to Mr...

...The Steel Trust and its allied interests of Pennsylvania is entitled to receive and does receive the highest consideration at the hands of the House Machine...

...It was otherwise with the gun foundry appropriation...

...Since his entrance into Congress, it would be hard to find an instance when Dalzell failed to use his position to promote the welfare of Big Business...

...His speech in defense of the control of the House and of legislation by himself and his associates on the Committee on Rules, appointed by Cannon, was perhaps the most earnest effort of his twenty-odd years in Congress...

...In the Fifty-sixth Congress he voted for the McMillan Bill which was the beginning of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Union Station grab at the national capital...

...In this session, too, he supported the committee amendment to the railroad employee hours of service bill to destroy the value of the measure by rendering it incapable of enforcement...

...The Roll Call ON MEN AND MEASURES The System Marshal of the House THE control of legislation in Congress in the interest) of Big Business and the System is brought about through an organization called the Machine...

...The Insurgents and Democrats combined had enough votes to prevent the readoption of the old rules...

...The next Congress continued Democratic and Dalzell continued on the Ways and Means Committee and at all times exerted his every effort to prevent reductions in tariff duties on iron and steel...

...His most conspicuous service in this Congress was his support of an infamous ship subsidy bill which provided for the making of subsidy contracts for a period of nineteen years and total bounties to be paid thereunder estimated at from $80,000,000 to $350,000,000...

...But the House, over the protest and vote of Dalzell, by a vote of 108 to 177, sent the bill back to Dalzell and his committee with instructions to make the basis of settlement $75,000,000 instead...

...He voted also in this Congress to rebuke President roosevelt for his message defending the employment of Secret Service agents of the government in detecting land frauds, even though in some instances they detected members of Congress in frauds upon the public domain...

...Dalzell was incensed at this...

...He voted again in this Congress against a resolution for the election of United States Senators by the people...

...To the observer, there is little in the appearance or personality of John Dalzell to explain the great power which he wields as the marshal of the House Machine...

...He speaks not as an orator...

...In the Fifty-ninth Congress he helped to consummate legislation which he had introduced years before in behalf of the Steel Trust, providing for a ship canal to give the trust water transportation from the Ohio River to the Great Lakes...

...Dalzell has been a member of the House continuously for more than twenty-two years...

...Dalzell was elevated to the Chairmanship of the Committee on Pacific railroads and given place on the Committee on Elections...

...Dalzell was one of those who voted against this amendment and for the bill...

...In the Fifty-seventh Congress he voted for the perpetuation of the graft ef the asphalt interests in the Uintah Indian Reservation...

...The railroads chafed under this restraint as they are chafing today under the law against combinations and monopoly...

...It was in the third session of this Congress that Dalzell performed his first important achievement of System service by reporting from his Committee on Pacific Railroads, the bill for the settlement at many millions less than was due, of the claims of the government against the railroads...

...To this the committee on Rules proposed an amendment to authorize placing a duty of 25 per cent, ad valorem on crude petroleum and its products...

...When Dalzell speaks, the stranger in the galleries is at a loss to understand why so many members hang so intently upon the words of this little man and why they should be swayed by him or controlled in their action by what he says...

...He voted for the conference report completing the Pennsylvania Railroad's Union Station grab at Washington and made an ardent plea in behalf of the steal...

...He showed his loyalty to the railroads by voting against a resolution to constitute these common carriers, for purposes of state control, citizens of the states in which they were operating...

...Such an amendment was introduced over the protest of the President and the Attorney General and of the committee that reported the bill...

...Night and day he was in the forefront of the battle, marshalling the System forces in the System fight...

...The Machine is composed of men—members of Congress...

...Dalzell voted again in this Congress for ship subsidies...

...A New York paper said at the time: "It is a steal, pure and simple, backed by the Huntingtons, Goulds, and Cramps, whose paid representatives now at Washington make a swarm of pests such as has been unknown since the days of the outrageous Pacific railroads legislation...

...Thus was demonstrated again how the System saves its own...

...During all of this time he h-as served with a single faithfulness the interests of Big Business...

...Even Cannon opposed the bill, declaring that it would increase transportation rates and that it was a deception in that it professed to give the Interstate Commerce Commission powers which it really did not confer...

...In the Fifty-fourth Congress we find Dalzell elevated to the great Committee on Rules, on which he has served so faithfully ever since...

...He voted for the Littlefield amendment to the Ridgely Labor Bill, the object of the amendment being to defeat the purpose of the bill, which was to take labor unions from the operation of the anti-trust act...

...In the memorable fight of the insurgents on Cannonism and the Cannon rules, it was Dalzell who really led the System's fight on the floor...

...To him the System is the country and all the country that is entitled to consideration in legislation...

...Carlisle was Speaker...

...By the provisions of this order, the House was not to be allowed to vote upon any amendment reducing any of the outrageous duties on iron ore, steel, or cottons or woolen goods...

...And that leader is John Dalzell of Pittsburg...

...He voted for the bill on final passage...

...Bristow, now United States Senator from Kansas, for his disclosures of corruption in the postomce department involving members of Congress...

...At this session a bill came up to forfeit grants of millions of acres of lands which had been given to railroads that had failed to comply with the conditions of the grants by building roads...

...In this Congress, too, we find Dalzell voting for an act of Congress to validate a corrupt measure of the territorial legislature of New Mexico to legalize certain railroad bonds which were a fraud upon the public...

...They got a bill reported in the Fifty-third Congress to repeal the anti-pooling clause of the Interstate Commerce Act...

...The following Congress was Democratic and Crisp was Speaker...

...He had always'carried the Machine program through without a hitch, but this time there was serious opposition...

...Dalzell was one of fourteen Congressmen voting against the submission to the states of an amendment to the Federal constitution to empower Congress to levy an income tax...

...Particularly is this so as to the leaders...

...It is only when the stranger learns that this man is speaking not for himself merely but as the mouthpiece of the System Machine, when he learns that this is Dalzell of Pennsylvania—but not so much of Pennsylvania as of the powerful Steel Trust and the System—that he is not addressing arguments to the House so much as he is giving orders,—that he understands the power of the man...

...He voted also in this Congress to promote coal grabbing in Alaska...

...The sum reported by Dalzell, as desired by the railroads, was $40,000,000...

...The Littlefield amendment was defeated by a vote of 145 to 54...

...He joined in the vote of censure of Mr...

...After the bill had been before the House two weeks for general debate, Dalzell reported from the Rules Committee a special order requiring the bill to be voted upon in the House and permitting consideration of amendments only in the schedules on lumber, hides, barley, and barley malt...

...He was paired also in this Congress in favor of an outrageous bill for the reorganization of the Northern Pacific railroad and to promote the exploitation of the Northern Pacific land grants, by big Interests, and he paired also in favor of a similar reorganization scheme to save to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad some 10,000,000 acres of public land which it had forfeited by violating the terms of its grant...

...The hearer detects a note of shrewdness and craft in his argument and is offended rather than pleased by the sarcastic and often unfair manner in which he answers those who may interrupt him or questior his assertions...

...It was at the opening of the late tariff session that Dalzell attained the zenith of System glory...

...He began his legislative career by making a speech defending the high tariff on iron and steel, and, as he said, "to resent impertinent intrusion into the private affairs of certain of my constituents...

...Carnegie and other representatives of Big Business concerning the costs and profits in iron and steel...

...This bill proposed the distribution for ten years of mail subsidies of three or four million dollars a year to the Pacific steamship lines, owned by Hill and Harriman...

...The deal with Tammany and the ruse by which some of the Insurgents were switched is ancient history now but the small shrewdness of it all bespoke the craft and the handiwork of Dalzell...

...When the bill was reported, the lobbyists of the big interests affected, hurried to Washington, clamoring for an amendment to the bill to protect them as "innocent purchasers...

...Even Fordkey of Michigan, an advocate of subsidies, denounced thib bill as proposing to give one Australian line an additional $200,000 a year although it had that year received from the government $50,000 more than the entire cost of all the labor on its line...

...Dalzell paired against this bill, against the people and for the railroads...

...When the formal resolution was adopted in the House, creating the new Committee on Rules, the name of John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, was at the head of the list as Chairman...

...Seldwn if ever, has he even for political effect recognized by word or deed any right or interest of the people in their government...

...An amendment was introduced providing that no pooling agreement should go into effect without the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission...

...Dalzell was active in support of the subsidy and voted for it consistently on every roll call...

...Tom Reed was Speaker...

...The Steel Trust contributes to the Machine a leader...

...In the Fifty-eighth Congress he joined with the railroad forces and voted for the special facilities graft in the railway mail pay section in the postoffice appropriation bill...

...and many followers —the me-too Congressmen who take orders...

...In this Congress also he proclaimed his subserviency to the System and his antagonism to popular government by voting against a resolution which passed the House 141 to 150, providing for the election of United States Senators by the people...

...On roll call after roll call Dalzell voted in favor of the ship subsidy bill of the Fifty-ninth Congress...

...In the present session he voted to have Cannon pack the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating committee...

...It was Dalzell who took the floor on behalf of the Machine to protest against the reduction, declaring that the money was needed for ship subsidies...

...They represent Special Interests in Congress because they are sent to Congress by Special Interests for that purpose...

...There is nothing either broad or profound in what he says...

...In offering this amendment the Machine blundered and Norris of Nebraska slipped in an amendment, reducing the rate to one per cent., which was overwhelmingly adopted by the House— so overwhelmingly that the Machine to save its face was obliged to concede in this instance the will of the majority and put petroleum on the free list...

...But the System was pushing Dalzell and he was appointed to the Committee on Ways and Means...

...In this vote Dalzell was one of an even dozen, the resolution being adopted by the House 158 to 12...

...He voted for the conference bill...

...In the Sixtieth Congress a bill was reported at the insistence of President Roosevelt and Attorney General Bonaparte, authorizing suits to enforce forfeitures of the California-Oregon land grants because the railroads had violated the terms of the grants by disposing of the land in great tracts to Big Business lumber syndicates, whereas the grants required that the lands be sold only in small tracts to settlers...

...Railroad pooling had been prohibited in the original interstate commerce act...

...a few leaders who are forceful men of brains and ability...