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Dawes's amendment was adopted,
the bill passed, the New England industries saved, and the
tariff reformers beaten. The persons who saw only the quiet
and modest bearing with which Mr. Dawes conducted himself
in the Senate do not know with how much vigor, quickness of
wit, readiness and skill in debate, he conducted himself amid
the stormy sessions of the House of Representatives during
Grant's first Administration. There has never been, within
my experience, a greater power than his on the floor of the
House. He had mighty antagonists. There were not only very
able Democrats, like Randall and Kerr and Holman, but there
were mighty leaders among the Republicans. There was little
party discipline. Each of them seemed bent on having his
own way and taking care of himself, and ready to trip up or
overthrow any of his rivals without mercy or remorse. Among
them were Butler and Farnsworth and Garfield and Logan and
Schenck and Kelly and Banks and Bingham and Sargent and Blaine
and Poland.
I was not in the habit of going often to the White House
when Grant was President.


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