The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-29
SKETCHES OF THE TWO
Unusual AmiabiIity in Con-
 gressiOnal Contest.
Speaker and Minority Leader Two cf the Most Popular as Well as the Ablest of Rep
 resentatives.
Advertiser Burieau, Colorado Huildin9.

CoicTado Buildfu&,
 Washington, April @ The party in control promised the coun- try last November that 1t should have a stand-pat and nothing-doing Congress at the session of 19OS-l9o4 It has given what | 1t promised. The original purpose of tho Republican leaders tc confine their de- Alterations within the narrowest possible limits consistent with the necessary ccn- s!ceraticn of absolutely essential leRis- lation. with the appropriation bills as of paramount importance. has been carried to complete accomplishment. There was little attempt by the majority to disguise the fact that the abridgment of the ses- sion was justified by political considera- tions The Republicans were not willing to risk the development of new and dis tracting issues which might be evolved from the friction of prolonged debates. There was need of the least occasion to impeEil party harmony. there was every reason to deny as far as possible to the minority coveted opportunity for the manufacture of campaign material Has Stood Pat.
 The majority has. on the whole, suc- ceeded very well, in standing pat and do- ing nothing, according to program. Whether the execution of the plans of the Republican leaders will bring tfe result they most desire only the elections of next November will disclose.
 Certainly there has been no great waste of time on any measure durin gthe sec ond session of the Fifty-sighth Congress. Both Houses have dispatched brsiness ai- most with haste, and .the administration has given its entire approval of the pol- Icy and performance.
 The House met after the special session of November, which carried It to taking i up the burden of the regular aesslon with out losing step in the speedy pace. with committees organised and ready to dc business the main business of efsactine llesislation to meet the enrTent expsnses of the government.
 Good Work Sf Democrats.
 Notwithstanding the Republicans have met their own expectations in carrying to conclusion the concrete purpose Of redic- l ing dellberation to a minimum. keeping the work of dispatching needful business at all times well in hand. they have eIl-. countered opposition so vigorously preci- pltated and So skiIfuily handled that 1t would be an impeachment of their own sagacity to say that they have no adequate appreciation of what 1t is to have an opposition that mean9 more than it's name has implied for many a session of Congress which has been under Re- publican control The Republicans can
  gains in the Congressional districts would transfer control of the House to the Democrats Whatever this has had to do with the exceptionally early adjourn merlt may also transpire with che develop ments of the approaching campaign. Despite the shortness of tho so-called long session, terminating, as this does. several months sooner than the average In Presidential election years. that of this .,~ar hoe ta aaveraf DarffeularE hean notably interesting.
 It tok up its business having had a change of leadership in both parties. Joseph G.. Cannon. of Illinois. began and has adjourned his first House as its Speaker. John Sharp Williams. of Mis- sissippi, has served his first Congress as leader of the minority. Undoubtedly selves creditably to the judgment of their respective parties.
 Cannon's Clean Record.
 While Mir. Cannon has justified the con- hdence of the Republicans. if any of them at any time looked for him to oversfep the limits of legitimate partisanship. there must have been disappointment, for there has been no complaint from the opposition that the Speaker has in any instance violated his duty to the whole House while maintaining his party alle-
  ton fairly and reasonably on all oeca- sions 1t is doubtless willing to testify. In- deed 1t may we'll be remarked that no Republican Speaker has ever adjourned a session of Congress after his first experience as Speaker, who en- jcyed a larger measure of esteem ana confidence from the opposition thau Joseph c. Cannon. The mention or ms namo on the floor in debate in connec- lion with the highest honor the repub- Iio can bestow was the recent occa- Eion of nagnifcently spontaneous out hurst of eloauence tribute to the worth of the Republican Speaker. signal of approbation in which his political op- moments of the House magnanimously and generously joined.
 MT. Cannon has not indelibly impress ed himself upon the membership of the body over which he presides as par | liamentary Lycurgus; it is to be doubt ed that his rulings will ever embody vital principles for parliamentary text books. but he has showed he is not too proud to learn and the House has witt messed him grow In parliamentary ap- prehension and spirit.
 Display of Good Humor.
 He has displayed himself in exacting emergency amtably amenaple to prompting that was clever and timely. and, aptiy. has he drawn upon his large bounty of common sense ayil- ing much where one more pretentious would have stumbled and fallen down. More than once handling questions in- voiving a devious and perplexing way to reach a given point, he has emerged out of a maze of ratiocfnation and grabbed with the glow of saving grace some homely old phrase or term which served effectually to carry the desired Idea home to the business and bos- oms" of members.
 Your Uncle Joe" Is essentially of the people. Is sympathetic enough to be for the people. and popular enough to be by the people. He is the nearest thing Democratic that has occupied the