Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-01-21

He actively participated In the presiden-
tial campaign of 1876. and in the state
conventions OF 1877, 1878. 1879; In 1880 he
Committee In 1851 Dingley was nOmis
mated by the republican, OF the Secono
congressional district OF Maine TO MI the
nation Of Hon. VIM. r. Frye. He was
elected by a majority Of over S.oOo. nearly
twice as large ms ever before given to any
the COMMITTEES on banking and currency,
and as a member offthe select m
on alcoholic liquor traffic and during the
session he presided severalttimes over tne
house In committee of the whole. BIZ.
Dingley's first speech In congress was
pads April 2; ISL, on r ho,se being iiDo
committee OF the whole on the bill to Gre
ate a tariff commission.
Under a joint resolution introduced into
the house by MIR. Dingley and. passed Au-
gust Z, 1882. he wss appointed a memDer
OF a Joint COMMITTEES 70 ipyestigase the
Condition and wants or american smlp
report or the committee drawn up by MT.
Dingley and unanimously agreed TO by me
committee was regardcd as q very 1oie
and valuable document.
The committee reported a bill 10. remove
certain burdens on American shippins.
framed by Mr.. Dingley, which passed the
cile disagreeing amendments between the
two houses before. the Forty.seventh con-
gress expired. While this bill. was under
confederation IN the HVhS6 hC
speech on the "Revival OF American Ship
ping in reply to Congressman Cox.
which placed him at once in tpe Iron.
rank Of congressman and gave him u IA
In 1852 he was reelected as a congress-
man at large for the Forty-eighth ron
gress. At the opening OF congress NJ tee
him at the head Of the republican minor
ity on both the banking and currency
committee and the select committee on
A.. II, eAtn hatil6tnO md shin OWNING
interests. Mr.. Dinghy at once reintro,
duced his shipping bill, which was passed
by the house and sent to the senate: Inc
latter body amended II by adding a pro-
vision for the encouragement OF Amsrlcan
postal steamship lines, but subsequentny
the difference was adjusted IN conleiSSsut
aad tho bill was approved by the president
on June "a, 1884.
on February Z, 1884. Mr.. Dingley re-
ported from the shipping committee ms
bill 70 constitute a bureau OF nayisatioh
I'm the treasury department ana later ~
the month 1t was passed in the house un-
der a suspension of the rules. S~uosequent-
~ tho senate concurred ana me bureau
Mr.. Dingiey was reelected to the Forty
ninth congress from the Second Maine dis-
triet In 1894,
Al the annual meeting Of the Congress
sional Temperance society In February,
1857. Mr.. Dingley was elected president:
In June, 1886, Mr.. Dingley was re-eiected
10 The Fiftieth congress and again elected
TO the Fifty-first congress IN 1873; 70 the
Fifty-second congress in 1880. the Fifty
third in 1892. the Fifty-fourth In 1884 ana
The Fifty-ffth in 1896 by large and In.
creased majorities. In the Fiity-second
and Fifty-third congresses he was an act
i've member of the on app'o-
ptiations.
In forming his cabinet prior to entering
on the duties OF chief executive, March 81
1897, President Mckinley rendered the po-
sition OF secretary OF the treasury to Mr.
Dingley, but he declined the oner, pre-
ferring to remain in his position az cha.r-
man OF the ways and means commIttee
and floor leader Of the republican majority
Of the house.
Under his lead the house within sixteen
| days after the Fifty-ffth congress was
convened in extraordinary session on me
18th of March. 1897, by President McNin-
lev passed a bill revising the tarih',
MIR. Dingley was a Congregationalst III
| religion. He was married June IL, 1891, 10
Miss Salome McKenney. or Aupurn, Mp
rrboy have had five children-Henry M,
! Charles l.. (deceased), Edward M Arthur
G.. and Edith Dingley.