Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-29
SPEAKER CANN0 n
Worried, Over Appropriations
Craftsmanship.
SEVERAL SUGGESTED
BUT TO ALL THERE'S SOME OBJ
LECTION RAISED.
It Looks as if He Might Finally De-
eide on Tawney for the
Place.

According to a representative who talked
recently with Mr.. Cannon of Illinois, the
prospective Speaker of the House is In a
great stew over the Craftsmanship of the
appropriations committee and is devoting
some thought also to the ways and means
committee. AS stated in The Star yestcr-
day. the two men who are at present fore
most in Mr.. Cannon's mind are Tawney
and Littauer, but there are drawbacks in
both cases.
This western representative went on to
say that the Speaker for that is the term
applied to Mr.. Cannon in prospecD wants
a man who Is parlfamentarian enough to
lead the House, who is strong enough to
resist pressure brought in favor of lavish
appropriations and who has the nerve and
courage to stand up for the House against
the encroachments of the Senate.
Gen. Bingham's Iu-Health.
The place belongs by right of seniority on
the committee to General Bingham of
Pennsylvania, but his health is fragile.
After him it should revert to Mr.. Nc
Cleary of Minnesota, but it Is hinted that
the Speaker wants to put him on the ways
and means committee. Mr.. McCleary is
pre-eminently an economist and a deep
thinker on tariff questions. Moreover, ne
is a stand-patter after the Speakers own
heart, and more, because Mr.. McCleary
wants to revise the tariff upward. 1t is
believed the Speaker thinks Mr.. McCleary
will have to be drafted for duty on ways
and means, which is weak in spots, from
the stand-pat viewpoint.
Mr.. Mccall, for one, might not be able to
withstand proposition to put hides on the
free list for his Massachusetts ShOemakerS; /;
Mr.. Tawney is little bit wobbly when
tariff revision is talked, and Mr.. Babcock is
notably inclined to lower duties on steel So
it looks, it is said, as if the Speaker may put
some stand-pat ginger into the committee
with Mr.. McCleary. That would free Mr..
Tawney from ways and means and put him
in the running for appropriations
But it is said that Mr. McCleary may not
be willing to make the sacrifice for his
party and his country and yield his claim
to the appropriations craftsmanship, for q
lower place on ways and means especially
If the recipient of the higher honor were a
man out of his own state delegation. So the
Speaker is fright smart pestered about It,"
according to this western representative.
Mr.. Littauer, who is talked of, is not a
debater and not particularly well versed in
parliamentary tactics. 1t is feared also
that criticism might be aroused from the
fact that he Is the head of the largest glove
manufacturing concern in the United States
and holds immense contracts with the gov
ernment. 1t is pointed out that Senator
Crane of Massachusetts,, the head of the
concern that holds the largest paper con-
tract with the government, transferred his
interests to his son before he came into the
Senate. to be immune from criticism.
Mr.. Dalzell.
Mr.. Dalzell would be regarded as a good
chairman for appropriations, 1t Is said, but
it would take a log chain and a team of
oxen to drag Mr.. Dalzell off the ways and
means committee when there is prospect
of tariff legislation or agitation. Mr.. Hep
burn of Iowa would be acceptable, but he
is needed on interstate and foreign COM
merce while railway rate legislation is i'm
pending.
The impression among great many
members of the House is known to be that
IL the Speaker goes outside of the COM
mittee for chairman he may wind up by
taking Mr.. Burton of Ohio. The gossips
say, however, that Mr.. Burton is not
strict party man, cannot be depended upon
to stand through thick and thin upon party
lines, and is self-willed Mr. Burton him.
self does not care whether he is asked to
take the place or not.