The cry of a free breakfast- table was then specially popular.

There were enough members who did not dare to vote against putting tea and coffee on the free list to turn the scale.

Dawes's amendment was adopted, the bill passed, the New England industries saved, and the tariff reformers beaten.

The persons who saw only the quiet and modest bearing with which Mr.Dawes conducted himself in the Senate do not know with how much vigor, quickness of wit, readiness and skill in debate, he conducted himself amid the stormy sessions of the House of Representatives during Grant's first Administration.

There has never been, within my experience, a greater power than his on the floor of the House.