Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-03
OVATION FOR BRYAN,
Nebraskan Gets Big Welcome In House of Representatives.
CONGRESS TAKES UP ITS WORK
Cooper of Wisconsin Denounces the Reed Rules as Conferrins Too Much
 Power Upon the Speaker-Democrats Introduce a Resolution on the Tariff.

Reed Rules as Conferrins Too Mucf
 Power Upon the Speaker-Democrats Introduce a Resolution on the Tariff
 Washington. Dec. 3.-The most i'm portant mau in Washington outside oi the president was Mir. Bryan of Ne braska-that is. if applause counts OI a question of this kind. His welcome fin the house of representatives over topped that of Speaker Cannon and Minority Leader Williams combined Cheers, three times repeated. as he entered through the door at the right of the speakers desk were the first evi' dence that members of the house of representatives and their guests recos- nized national figure.
 Then the applause rolled out again, the southern members leading it, and for nearly an hour thereafter Mir. Bry- an was the central figure in the lobby back of the speakers desk. Senators as well as representatives came to greet him, and all acclaimed him as the next candidate of the Democratic par ty for president.
 Tariff Resolution Introduced.
 Bryan was not in the speakers lobby fifteen minutes before he began giving advice to members of congress in re- spect to tariff revision. trust regulation and currency amendments. He laid particular weight on the tariff and said that the Democrats had an opportunity to force the Republicans to a direct issue on the question. At the sugges- tion of Bryan Representative Richard son (Ala) immediately after the organ ization of the house introduced the following resolution, which went over without debate:
 That the committee on ways and means be instructed to so revise the tariff as to make it a tariff for revenue and not for protecting one class of citizens at the expense of another"
 There is a general agreement that Bryan will shape the attitude of the minority and that unless John Sharp Williams accepts the situation he will be sent to the rear.
 Aside from the Bryan welcome. the scenes at the reopening of congress were not unusual, but the sharp de- bate immediately after the speaker was sworn in gave evidence that this will be fighting house of representa- Sives and that the Democrats will show more ginger than is usual for them.
 The First Scrap,
 When everybody was feeling in good humor a parliamentary row be- gan on motion that the rules of the last house should be the governing law in the present house. Williams (Misss said the people of the country were beginning to recognize clearly that too much power was concentrated in the hands of the speaker. There was lots of applause from the minority and then some surprise all around when Repre- sentative Cooper (Rep.. Wis., expressed his approval of what the minority leader had said.
 He held that the power given to the speaker under the rules ought not to be tolerated in a republic. De Armond Miss followed. and when DalZell (Pa.I interrupted 10 know how much time the gentleman from Missouri re quired De Armond detiantly said he was within his rights as member and was not asking recognition from Dal- Eell.
 Uncle Ioe's gavel fell thunderously. and he informed De Armond that Mir Dalzell had the floor. Thereupon the gentleman from Missouri accepted twenty minutes time from Dalzell. Then De Armond said that the mem bers would he towards and cravens to go back to the old rules. He as. serted they ought to be ashamed to re- turn to their homes and say they had shackled their intellects by such ab- surd parliamentary procedure.
 DaIzelI Raps Democrats. ( Dalzell came back swiftly in reply and said that it was unnecessary to discuss the rules of the house except for campaign consumption. The in- sincerity of the minority was shown, be said. in the fact that the rules now are substantially those which obtained IH the Fifty-second and Fifty-third con Gresses. controlled by the Democrats.
 The trouble was. he said the Demo- crats did not have q real grievance and so tried To find one in denouncing the powers of the speaker which in their present form substantially were history for hundred years.
 Speaker Cannon arose to explain the situation. and there was a broad laugh when he said that the speaker Is the servant of the house hut there was a roll of applause from the Republicans when he added:
 If majority Of house shall act under the constitutional law. no speak CT will fail to obey the will of the people"
 De Armond insisted tha: the speaker had not answered him
 If inc gentleman has not I,een an- swered" said the speaker Suavely. "it fs the misfortune of the chair or the misfortune of the peculiar state of mind of the gentleman. at which there was laughter at Dc ArruOnd-s expense.
 Old House Rules Adopted.
 Then De ArInond demanded to know tT a majority os the members requested the speaker to permit action upon a particular matter whether hp would pr would not So it The speaker re- piled that the will of the majority