Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-07-04
HOUSE MAY TRY TO
GET into The GAME
Cannon Said to Be Tired OF
the Senate's Overshad-
owing Power.
NEW SPEAKERS POSITION
Great Effort Is Likely to BE Made to
Give the Representatives a Larger
Voice in the Affairs of the
Government.

Washington, June 29.-"Uncle Joe
Cannon" speaker-to-be OF the next
house, is reported as in training Tor a
battle with the over-shadowing senate.
November o congress will be called into
session. President Roosevelt, who will
issue the call, understands mat lts
first purpose is Cuban reciprocity and
it's second financial legislation on lines
of the Aldrich bill, killed In the last
hours of the last congress. the over
shadowing senate n the httle
coterie Of republican senators running
IL, who consented against their lnclln-
ations TO the presidents speclal SEES
sion, understand the first purpose Oh
this meeting to be financial legislation
and the second Cuban reciprocity, III
there Is time. To be prepared, repup-
lican members of the senate nnahCe
committee met not long ago at lrBlnla
Hot Springs to arrange the Dill on the
lines OF the Aldrich measure. III mas
since been understood that congres is
to pass II.
cannon's Revolt.
When this report reached Uncle
Joe Cannon he tugged at his WHISPERS
and growled. In the last congres
Cannon was frankly opposed to the
form of every financial bill introduced
! including the Aldrich bill. whether ne
is opposed as we'll 10 the principle IN
volved is not known. cannon is hot
| saying, but his Is understood 10 nave
intimated in pretty strong terms that
1t would require a larger quorum IMAM
the republican members of the senate
| finance committee to decide just what
financial legislation the congress shall
| enact at the special session. 1t is UNI
derstood that the president has en-
| deavored to mollify the feelings or the
| gentleman from Illinois with scant sue
| cess. The point is that views
on financial legislation make only q
peg on which to hang a declaration or
independence. For several years the
| senate has bossed the house. Aldrichr
Platt OF Connecticut, Hale, Frye, ALI
son, Spooner and Hanna, with Lodge
and one or two others have bossed the
senate. Henderson, as Il speaker, had
no fight In him. G~rosvenor's interests
have too often been those of the SEN
ate coterie for him to object, and his
independence was a marked
characteristic. Cannon, with this sort,
or lack OF backing, has been forced
into surrender after surrender on con-
ferences. His last and most bitter pill
was in the closing hours of the last
congress when he spoke his mind to
the house after signing articles OF cap
itulation and remarked, n more; nc
| IIlOIt. IlulS ldullNllth lS "Nlhl anu
official curses OF the senate at his head
with due solemnity, and the incident
was supposed closed.
Will Cannon Back DOWN.
Present advices seem to indicate that
this was a beginning, not an end. Behind
Cannon will be ranged the young men on
the republican side of the house whose
platform is his, and who believe he will
give them the fair show they ave de-
manded for three sessions, People have
grown so accustomed to the domination
of the house and even the administration
by the senate hat they generally say here
that Cannon Will back down. Which
prophecy his friends decry, saying that the
next speaker will show even more back
bone than did Reed, who did yield to the
senate on occasions. The special session
and the treatment the financial Legislation
Of seven or eight republican senators
meets at the hands Of the house will tell
the tale. II Cannon wins he will have eff
fected a legislative revolution and restored
the house to its old time position as a CO.
ordinate chamber.