My story . han willing touse the knowledge I had gained in business to confoundthe advocates of Privilege. I fought hard to have steel rails put on the free list andknowing Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, as the membermost interested in the iron and steel schedule I gave himseveral days notice of what I intended to do, and in thedebate yielded him part of my time. I reasoned that if I contended for free trade in thisparticular branch of Industry with which I was so familiarand in which I was personally interested, it would clearthe way for a similar fight on all other free trade amend-ments. It c
My story . han willing touse the knowledge I had gained in business to confoundthe advocates of Privilege. I fought hard to have steel rails put on the free list andknowing Mr. Dalzell of Pennsylvania, as the membermost interested in the iron and steel schedule I gave himseveral days notice of what I intended to do, and in thedebate yielded him part of my time. I reasoned that if I contended for free trade in thisparticular branch of Industry with which I was so familiarand in which I was personally interested, it would clearthe way for a similar fight on all other free trade amend-ments. It could not be charged that I was for free tradeIn every district but my own nor in every industry exceptthe one in which I was myself engaged. When I spoke of the steel-rail pool Mr. Dalzell sur-prised me by denying its existence. He said there hadbeen a combination between certain steel rail men, whichhad been broken up by the refusal of a large numberof firms to go into it, and that it had fallen of its own. o wo X > h >< u wDaOh < O h< HO z THE MONOPOLIST IN CONGRESS 77 weight but that there was no condition in it for keepingup prices, etc., etc., and that now this pool was no Dalzell was like that secretary of the interior of alater day who went out to investigate the beef trust andcame back to Washington from Chicago with the state-ment that there was no beef trust. He had asked theArmours and they had said, No. And so Mr. Dalzellhad asked the rail manufacturers whether there was asteel-rail pool and they had said, No. For answer I picked up from my desk a paper which Isaid was a copy of an agreement proving the existenceof the pool. Mr. Dalzell said he was bound to acceptmy statement, but that he deprecated trusts as much asI did. I retorted that as a business man I didnt deprecatetrusts, I joined them,— but that as a member of CongressI neither represented nor defended them. I said thatif it were true as our Republican members were urgingthat prot
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