The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-13
A CANNON SHAKE.UP
New Speaker Will Bring the Middle
West to the Front in Com
mittee Makeup.
Tawney May Become a Member
of Enlarged Rules Com
mittee.
From The Journal Bureau, Room 49, Post Build
Wash

From The Journal Bureau, Room IS, Post Build
ing, Washington.
Washington, July 13.-Everything points
to the reorganization of several commit
tees of the house of representatives when
the fifty-eighth congress opens in De-
cember. Mr.. Cannon, who will be speaker,
is a typical western man, and is thoroy
1mbued with western ideas. Necessarily,
he is inclined, so far as public utterances
are concerned, to be noncommittal on
questions regarding which the republican
party is divided, but at the proper time
he will undoubtedly take a stand with
the west. This means that he will make
up new committee on rules. work over
the committee on banking and currency.
now made up of lot of misfit financial
theorists and lobbyists, put more western
men on the committee on postOffices and
post roads, and see that the ways and
@eans committee is not unduly handi-
capped by ultra protectionists.
SO far as the committee on rules is
concerned, 1t Is believed that the speaker
will agree to have it Increased from five
to seven members. If Messrs. Dalzell and
Grosvenor remain, the speaker will likely
name two typical western republicans
who with himself, will be in control The
most prominent man thus far mentioned
for one of the prospective new places is
Mr. Tawney Of Minnesota.
The banking and currency committee
will, under Mr.. Cannon's management,
cease to be an asylum for financial cran ks.
1t is altogether likely that congress next
winter will try to pass Some sort of a
currency bill. Such a bill must run the
gauntlet Of the house banking and cur
rency committee; hence the need for hav-
Ing that committee composed of men who
ere intensely practical and thoroly we'll in
formed. The committee has had nothing
to do since the passing of free silver and
1t was able to make a good showing during
the silver excitement because Mr.. Nc
Cleary of Minnesota was a dominant menu
Der. He has since left the committee for
0 place on the committee on appropria-
lions.
There will be some vacancies on the
committee on ways and means. These
will not be filed with ultra protection
lists. but with men who, at the proper
time, will support q reasonable PROPOSE
ton for tariff revision.
It is unlikely that the east will ever
again furnish a speaker. Slowly but in
evitably the center Of political influence
has been moving, following the center of
population, towards the middle west, and
there it Is destined to remain permanently.
BY no possible chance can the population
west of the Missouri ever be great enough
to take that center of influence out of
the Mississippi valley. Mr.. Henderson
was the first western speaker. Mr.. Can
non will succeed him, and Mr.. Cannon S
successor will be some man from state
between the Alleghenies and the mis-
souri,. At present, Mr.. Tawney Of Min
nesota is the most promising of several
prospective candidates. Mr.. Cannon is
growing old, and his friends believe that
he will hardly continue in public life
longer than the close of the fifty-ninth
congress-, which will adjourn sine die
March 4, 1907. That congress will be
elected In November, 1901.
of fIo hoe IF Nor
England and the remainder of the old
east towards western meas ures grows out
of their realiza ton Of the fact that their
political supremacy Is departing, never to
return. The party and administratio poll
icies Of the future are to be dictated by
the middle west, and that section in ad-
dition to speakers, will continue to fur
nish the candidates of both parties for
the presidency.
w. w. Jermane