The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-26
HEMENwAY a POSSIBILITY
INDIANIAN WHO HAS MADE A GREAT
RECORD IN CONGRESS-.
Cannon, sherman, LittIeheId, Cush-
man aud burton AIsa Mentioned
for Successor to Henderson.
Special 10 tn. Indianapolis Joarua

Quent coming retirement from the speak
ership. has aroused considerable interest
as to who will preside in the lower house
OF the next Congress. The question figures
In the approaching elections to the extent
that members OF Congress: who are elected
u week from next Tuesday will choose the
speaker Sfr. Henderson will continue as
speaker at the coming ses ion of the pres
snt Congress. but will reklre on March 4.
II by any possibility these should be an
extra session-that is. If the next Congress
should be called before its regular meet
Ing time in December. 1s93-the speaker
ship question would at onee become live
issue. There Is little doubt that Repub-
licans will control the next house. and they
are well supplied with speakersmp timber.
One OF the prospective candidates is
James Schoolcraft Sherman, of Utica. who
as Republican. represents the Twenty
fifth district Of New York. He was men
toned at the time OF the resignation of
Speaker Reed as the most likely successor
to the latter. In fact, Me-. Sherman was
strongly i'm the running against David B.
Henderson at that time. and was under
stood to have Withdrawn only in defer
euce To the wishes OF Senator Platt Of New
York. For time he was regarded as a
sure thug for the office. and IL was gem
er;Illy believed he was the personal choice
OF President Mckinley. Mr.. Mckinley
Nominated him for general appraiser at
New York, which, though practically a
life Office. he declined at she instigation. IL
was said. OF his own constituents, who
desired that he retain his seat in Congress.
In his speakership race against General
Henderson Sherman haf but one for
midable opponent, Serene L. Payne, OF
Auburn. y. Y. then chairman of the ways
and means committee. When he retired
from the speakership contest. Mr.. Sher-
man was believed TO hav~ secured eighty
Z three votes out of the rinety-two neces-
sary TO secure the caucus nomination He
has been six times elected TO Congress and
defeated once.
CANNON AND HEMENwAY.
John g. Cannon, of Illinois, will doubt
less be the strongest Middle West candi-
date for speaker. In 1859 he did come
forward Republican candidate for the
. Office. He has been a member OF many
House committees including that on rules.
Lawyer. farmer and banker he entered
the Forty-third Congress- after much dis
tinction in his own State as a politician,
having been states attorney from 1eOI to
; 1853. His home is at DaTyille. but he was
born at Gulford. N. c., "a 1885, He was a
. close friend Of President Harrison. He has
. always had a certain popularity in Wash
ington. A man Of plain manners and ap-
; pearance. his Washington house is often
. a center Of social gaiet-. but personally
he has the reputation OF aeing a man bent
on business first and pleasure afterwards.
James A Hemenway. OF Indiana, another
leading Republican Representative, who
has been spoken of as candidate for
speakership, was first elected to the Fiji
ty-fourth Congress in 1904 During his first
term in the House he received an unpre-
cedented honor for representative of
his standing. in being appointed by Speak
er Reed a member Of the kommitteee ap-
propriations. He continued a member OF
that committee during his second congress
sional term. Born at S5oonville in 1850,
he is regarded as a selGmade man. hav-
ing begun life in a tanhery and worked
his way into law and politics. Like Mr..
Cannon. he is a strong Middle West pos
sibility for the speakership. and in the
event OF the former being made speaker.
Mr.. Hemenway would probably be taken
care OF by being given the Craftsmanship
OF the appropriation committee
CHARLES Z. LITTLEFIELD.
One OF the most proDainent Republican
representatives on the floor of the House
and a possible candidate for the speaker
ship is Charles Z. Littleseld. OF Rockland,
Ne. He came to Congress as the successor
OF Nelson Dingley. His speeches In Con-
gress have won for hiIa comparisons to
Blaine ard Reed. He had previously served
in the Maine Legislature and has been at
torney general OF the State. At one time
he was mentioned as candidate for the
United States Senate against Eugene Hale.
Last summer Mr.. Littleield was spoken OF
as a possible future speaker. and IL was
rumored that he would have the support
of President Roosevelt. whose recent selec-
ton OF the famous Marie congressman to
father the antitrust las seemed TO back
up that view. Congressman Littlefeld is
one OF the tallest men In the House, spare
and lean of figure and with an immense ca
pacity for work. The sol. OF York county
Baptist minister, he began his political
career as a Maine assemhlyman in 1885, be-
ing soon chosen as the speaker OF the
Legislature. He was delegate at large
TO the national Republican convention in
1879. While a loyal Republican, Mr.. Lit
tlefield openly opposed president McKin-
Iey's policy as to the Porto Rico tariff He
voted also for Cuban reciprocity and has
declared himself as absolutely against the
exercise OF autocratic powers by the speak
err He was one OF the Aigners OF the NIL
uority report on the exclusion OF Repre-
sentative Roberts. of Utah. in 1900. saying
that while he disapprovsd OF polygamy he
saw great danger in Congress- establishing
presidents such as those involved In the
disqualification OF the Mormon representa-
tive. He Is frank I'm his opinions and al
ways ready for ngb3. He is fond OF
horses and the drama and one OF his
aphcrisms Is that Congress must regulate
the trusts
FRANK w. Cushman tak:s rank among Re-
publican congressman S-ho may possibly
succeed to the spealsership. BY birth an
Iowa man. he passed mapy years IN Wash
fngton. the State from which he entered
the Fifty-sixth Congress- hailing from Ia
soCaa. ~ successor to gae famous James