The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ngres-sional career was chiefly notable for the success withwhich he kept himself in the background, giving allhis time and attention to studying the methods ofhandling questions b
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ngres-sional career was chiefly notable for the success withwhich he kept himself in the background, giving allhis time and attention to studying the methods ofhandling questions by the members of the house andthoroughly familiarizing himself with his new du-ties. It was in the forty-first congress that Mr. Ran-dall first began to make an impression both on theminds of his associates and on the country as a hard-working and clear-headed member of the floor of the house he began to be recognizedas a ready debater and a shrewd the forty-third congress he was placed on thecommittee on rules, in company with such prominentmen as James G. Blaine, Kathaniel P. Banks, JamesA. Garfield and Samuel S. Cox. During this con-gress there was a strong, fighting republican major-ity, and the force bill was introduced and broughtabout a great struggle. In this fight, Randall,through his perfect knowledge of parliamentaryprocedure, was able to hold the opposition at bay. .J^--u_ and showed the finest capacity as a party was on the aggressive at all times, keeping thefloor day and night, and exhausting every devicepossible to prevent the passage of the force bill as alaw. _ Having won this battle, Mr. Randall wasunanimously given the leadership of his party in thehouse of representatives. In 1875, when a demo-cratic house had been returned, it was supposed thatMr. Randall would be made the speaker, a dignitywhich he had richly earned by his splendid tacticsin opposition to the force bill, but the South andWest were determined to
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