Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-12
Indignation of the Members OF
Congress Causes a Remark
able Demonstration
CANNON NAMED FOR PRESIDENT
Republican Members Lose Their Heads
in Their Anger Over the Bristow Re-
port and Are Inclined to Take Re-
vense on the Administration-Hish
Praise for cannon's Services

ular leader the people come to the
house of representatives to get him;
land l hope the day is not far distant
when the American people will de-
servedly crown the speaker OF the
house, who has devoted thirty years
of his life to standing between rapacity
and crime on the one hand and the
treasury of the country on the other,
land will lift him by general consent
! into the executive Office
/ AS the words OF William Alden
Sindth rang thru the hail of represen .
tatives yesterday afternoon there was
| first surprise and then a Wild demon
stration of approval. in which no party
| lines were discernible. The old hail
| rang with cheers, and the scene was
more like that in a political convention
made up of one faith selecting a can
! didate.
The house of representatives. per-
haps, unconsciously voiced the ex-
pressed wish of the orator by giving
personal approval to the sentiment he
| had uttered from u non partlcan
| translation of Uncle joe from the
speakers chair to the executive office.
| Remarkable Demonstration.
| 1t was the most remarkable DEM
onstration ever seen in the house OF
representatives, and the more remark
able because it came in the midst OF
a heated and very bitter political and
partisan controversy over the postal
scandals. The partisan battle begun
| last Monday, has ragged all week and
grown in intensity thruout the long
/ session. The democrats We're seeking
to commit the house to an investiga-
| ton of the postoffice department, ana
the republican leaders We're restraining
their insurgent members to keep clear
the record and permit only an investl-
CATION as to how the Bristow report
got before the house and wherein it
touched members of congress.
The democrats had won temporary
advantage in defeating the motion to
lay the Hay resolution on the table,
and the Intensity of the feeling against
Bristow manifest on the republican
side, made them hopeful that they
could carry the house forward an
other step and order an investigation
| OF the postoffice department
Speaker Cannon. with his power TO
rule motions out Of order was the only
tsalvation OF the aaministra ton, and
| he sat there, calmly holding the reins
with as much assurance as Reed ever
showed in this most daring days, when
called the car
But, unlike the trying days in the
Fifty-first congress. when the demo
Gratis hated Reed, they We're praising
/ Speaker Cannon while opposing him,
and, given the opportunity, they joined
with the republicans in cheering the
orator who dared to nominate him for
the presidency.
! Instantly all partisan bitterness was
| forgotten; the hysteria of hatred sub
sided, and a great wave of good will
toward the speaker swept the house
| from its partisan moorings into a
ground swell of approval for the
! speaker. who was for once abashed as
| he welded his gavel in a vain effort
| to quiet the house and restore order.
Senators Lodge and Beveridge and
other chosen champions of the presi-
dent, who had come over from the
| senate, looked on in CONSERVATION al;
this shadow of the speaker rising to
obscure the administration he was
protecting.
The parliamentary struggle between
the republicans and the democrats
came late In the day. The recommen
dation of the committee that the Hay
resolution be laid on the table WAS
brushed aside unanimously The DEM
ocratic demand for full investigation
| finally came to a vote IN the shape Of
an appeal from the decision of the
chair. and was defeated, l44 to 125, a
strict party vote A resolution of an in
lvestigaton Of the connection of menu
bers with the department., offered ny
Representative Mccall, of Massach,,-
sets. then was agreed to, only Repre-
sentative Linn, democrat, of Minneso-
ia, and Gillespie, democrat, of Texas.
| opposing it.
The debate foreshadowed very
| plainly that there may be some radical
| legislation affecting the postoffice de-
partment at this session of congress.
Lump sums OF appropriations which
| have been given to the department
| heretofore will be placed under specl-
| fled heads in the future and their ex-
penditure limited to specified purposes.
| Mr.. Hemenway showed how the de-
partment had diverted lump sums ap-
preparations and had then criticised
congressman who tried to secure apph-
cation of the appropriations to spec
lific purposes.