, 1899-01-14

dered the position of speaker, which
he declined.
In 1873 Mr.. Dingley was nominated
as the republican candidate for COVER,
nor of Maine.by a vote or two to one
against two popular opponents, and
was elected by about 10000 majority
In 1874 he was reelected by over II, O0C
majority, declining a third nomination
! in 1875. He was one of the delegates
national convention in 1876.
He actively participated in the presi,
Dental campaign of 1876 and in the
state conventions Of 1S77-7s-79. In
1880 he was chairman of the repub-
lican executive committee. In 1881
Mr.. Dingley was nominated by the re-
publicans of the Second congressional
district OF Maine. He was elected by a
majority of over 5000, nearly twice as
date in that district. He served on the
committee on banking and currency
and as a member of the select commit
tee on alcoholic liquor traffic, and dur
ing the session he presided several
times over the house in committee of
the whole. Mr.. Dingley's first speech
in congress was made April 25, 1882,
on Protection to American Shipping
the house being in committee of the
mission.
Under a joint resolution introduced
in the house by Mr.. Dingley and passed
August Z, 1883, he was appointed a
member of a joint committee to inves-
tigate the condition and wants of
American shipbuilding and s%hipowning
interests. The report of the commit
tee, drawn up by Mr.. Dingley and unan-
imously agreed to by the committee,
able document.
The committee reported a bill to re-
move certain burdens on American
shipping, framed by Mr.. Dingley, which
passed the house, bTt there was not
time to reconcile ~disagreeing amend
ments between the two houses before
the Forty-seventh congress expired.
While this bill was under consideration
in the house he made a speech on The
Da,;,ol ~ k,aricon Shtnninu ~ i'm ra-
ply to Congressman OK, which placed
him at once in the front ranks of con-
gressmen and gave him a national rep
utationl
In 1882 he was reelected as a con-
gresham at large for the Forty-eighth
congress. In December, 1884, Speaker
Carlisle appointed him at the head of
the republican majority on both the
banking and currency committee and
the select committee on American ship
building and s%hipowning interests. Mr..
Dingley at once r~eintroduced his ship
ping bill, which was passed by the
house and sent to the senate.
The latter body amended it by adding
a provision for the encouragement on
American postal steamship lines, but
subsequently, the differences We're ad-
justed in conference, and the bill was
approved by the president on June "a,
1884.
On February I, 1884, Mr.. Dingley re-
ported from the shipping committee
his bill to constitute a bureau OF navi-
CATION in the treasury department, and
later in the month it was passed in the
house under a suspension of the rules
Mr.. Dingley was reelected to the
Forty-ninth congress from the Second
Maine district in 1884.
In June, 1886, Mr.. Dingley was re-
elected to the Fftieth congress, and
again to the Fifty-first in 1888, the
Fifty-second in 1890, the Fifty-third in
| 1892, the Fifty-fourth in 1894, and the
Fifty-fifth in 1896, by large and increas-
ing majorities. In the Fifty-second
and Fifty-third congresses he was an
active member of the committee on APP
preparations.
President Mckinney rendered the po-
sition of secretary Of the treasury to
MIR. Dingley, but he declined the offer
preferring to remain in his position as
chairman Of the ways and e com
mittee and floor leader OF the republi-
can majority of the house.
Under his lead the house, within six
teen days after the Fifty-fifth congress
was convened in extraordinary session
on the 18th of Marcn, 1897, by Presl-
dent Mckinley, passed a bill revising
the tariff.
Mr.. Dingley was a Congregationalist
in religion. He was married June IL,
1857, to Miss Salome McKenney of Au-
burn, Me. They nave had six children,
| Henry NJ, Charles l.. (deceased), Ed
ward NJ, Arthur H., Albert G., and
Edith Dingley.
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