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268 have reelected him to every congress since that date. In the house he has served on such important committees as those of Ways and Means, Elections, Pacific Railroads, and Rules, and has done conspicuous service in all the fields of legislative work. He has been prominently identified with the Dingley bill and has won recognition as an authority on certain phases of international law. In 1898 he visited Cuba and Porto Rico, to study their conditions in view of necessary legislation.

Mr. Dalzell's life found its strongest molding influence in home training, and in a diligent course of reading, which in later years, in response to his avocations, has been largely confined to law and economics. He is a member of numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Social and Political Science, the Scroll and Key Society of Yale, the Duquesne, University, Americus and Young Men's Tariff clubs of Pittsburg, the Pennsylvania club and the Chevy Chase club of Washington.