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Speech of the Hon. John Dalzell, in the House of Assembly, Saint Vincent: on the 4th September, 1827, while the House was in committee on the slave bill.
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Dalzell was an American congressman and parliamentarian. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Pacific Railroads during the Fifty-first Congress, and the United States House Committee on Rules during the Sixty-first Congress.
Background
John Dalzell was born on April 19, 1845 in New York City, New York, United States. He had Scotch-Irish parents. Samuel Dalzell, a shoemaker, and his wife Mary (McDonnell) had come from County Down in 1840. When John was two, their pioneer urge pushed them farther across the mountains to Pittsburgh.
Education
At sixteen, John became discontented with the educational opportunities offered him at the Western University of Pennsylvania, and found his way to Yale. Entering heartily into the social, athletic, literary, and debating activities there, he succeeded in developing leadership and securing recognition.
Career
Dalzell was desirous of following his natural bent, the law, in his home community. Two years of study there under John H. Hampton led to a partnership with him.
Twenty years of arduous, successful work as a corporation attorney ensued. The firm became counsel for all the western lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad from the time of their amalgamation, for the Westinghouse industries, and for others of more local significance.
After the death of Hampton in 1887 the name of the firm was changed to Dalzell, Scott & Gordon, and Dalzell worked actively in it until 1895. In the midst of his labors in behalf of industrial amalgamation and railroad expansion, his friends persuaded him, somewhat against his will, to go to Congress. In this project they were aided and abetted by his wife. She was exceptionally well-fitted to be the helpmate of a congressman. Relieving her husband of many of the burdens which constituents place upon their representatives, she also unobtrusively engineered campaign contacts, quietly supervising that meticulous reflection detail which is the bane of a congressman’s existence, a work which Dalzell abhorred and in which he practically refused to engage. Under such favorable auspices, there began a congressional career which was to last through twenty-six consecutive years.
From 1887 to 1889 and from 1891 to 1895 Dalzell was a member of the minority. He proved himself unwaveringly loyal to Pittsburgh’s industries, and although a railroad attorney contributed powerfully to the development of Pittsburgh’s waterways. His period of national significance commenced in 1895, when the Republicans gained control of the House; then began a sequence of fourteen years of House leadership, jointly exercised with Reed, Dingley, Payne, and Cannon. From their councils emanated highly developed forms of the special rule, devised to expedite legislation.
Dalzell was a member of the House Committee and on Ways and Means from 1891 to 1913 a member of the Ways and Means Committee. Dalzell now went on the Rules Committee, of which he ultimately became ranking member.
Dalzell being a thoroughgoing conservative, the La Follette insurgents had him to reckon with from the start. He cornered them many times; as on March 1, 1909, when he proposed Calendar Wednesday in such manner as to put them on record against it; and April 10 and July 31 of that year, when special rules sent the tariff to conference without debate on separate amendments, and provided that the conference report should not be subject to a point of order.
Dalzell failed to defeat the Norris resolution abolishing the old Rules Committee; but when the Republicans, debarring from their caucus the insurgents, came to nominate for the new committee, he was named for the ranking position; and when the committee organized he was named chairman.
From this new-old vantage, Dalzell reported, June 17, 1910, the first discharge rule of the House, that rule which James R. Mann murdered six months later. The Senate remained out of Dalzell’s reach, Matthew S. Quay.
For the speakership, he lost in 1902 to Joseph G. Cannon the more picturesque Mid-Western candidate. The death of Mrs. Dalzell in 1909 broke the mainspring of his political existence. In 1912 he suffered defeat with Taft, and thereafter steadfastly refused to reenter politics. He chose to remain in retirement in Washington until, two years before his death, he removed to Altadena, California, United States.