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Rh fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth Congresses; and he was reelected to the fifty-ninth Congress. In 1898, he was temporary chairman of the Republican state convention of Iowa. During his career in congress he has been particularly identified with the committees on Indian Affairs, Reform in the Civil Service and Public Lands, of which last committee he is chairman. His principal public utterances include addresses on the financial bill of 1899, the bond bill, homesteads, the tariff, wages and the silver standard, and a notable address on Henry Clay delivered at Des Moines, Iowa. He has taken a deep interest in the preservation of the forests and animals of the country, and he has drafted and introduced several important laws on the subject. He is also the author of "Lacey's Railway Digest," and of "Lacey's Third Iowa Digest," and contributed the articles "Forestry Legislation in the United States," and " Need of Forest Preservation," to "Gunton's Magazine."