Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-02
preliminaries For the Opening
OF Congress at Noon Today
All Arranged
DEMOCRATS TILT OVER TARIFF
Cannon Named for Speaker by Repub-
licans-President's Message to Show
Faith in country's Financial Sta
bility-M oyer Wants se,ooo,ooo Per
Year for Postoffioes.


washington. Dec. 2.-Preparation for
the formal opening of the sixtieth con-
rress was perfected Saturday when the
republican majority Of the house OF
representatives selected "Uncle Joe
Cannon Of Illinois as their candidate
for speaker.
The nomination was made amid the
widest enthusiasm, in which cheers
md cries OF ''our next president
mingled.
This caucus followed that OF the
democrats, who, after nominating Jonn
Sharp Williams. Mississippi. for speak
ar adjourned In confusion to prevent
action on O. resolution to force taritr
revision at the session.
Speaker Cannon pointed out what he
thought ought to be done and now IL
should be accomplished. Among other
things he said:
{ n ..In providing for the public service
during tho sixtieth congress we snoulo
hear In mind that the development OF
fhe country. marvellous as it is, Is sui
In Its infancy. The future Will witness
q development and growth more won
derful than the past has been anu from
time to time thru the decades othet
con crosses will care for the demands OF
the government as they are presented
"You have for the third time non
bred me with the nomination OF speak
er. I accept this as duty, as Wen as
=, honor--a duty to the house ana the
country. and I assume this office, not
as a. personal privilege, but grave re-
sponsibility, well knowing you and the
country will rightly place that respoh-
sibiNty upon me. hope to discharse
the duty to your satisfaction.
Routelle, Illinois, nominated "Uncle
Toe" after Hepburn, Iowa, and Lou
denslager, New Jersey, had been chos-
=, chairn an and secretary of the eau
Gus.
Following Speaker Cannon's speech
the old officers Of the house were re-
nominated with the exception OF tue
postmaster =, 49,
! Clerk--Alexander Mcdowell, Penn
sylvania. c,ssor
observation-disclosures Lyons, New
York. -.
igan.
sipostm,aster-S. A. Langum, Mime
sofa.
"a letter was read from Representa-
tive Porter Of the Niagara, New YORK
district, applying for admission 10 the
canc,,s. It was turned down on the
rfnund that Porter, having been noml-
mated by the independent faction ana
Endorsed by the democrats and slnde-
Incidence league, was not a republican
Porter already has been refused admis-
sion to the democratic caucus. sat
,,rday nights action makes him man
without u party.
culbertson to Lead Democrats.
/. The organization of the senate, which
will consist in filling vacancies on
standing committees. VIII be arranged
FOR at q. republican conference MONDAY
afternoon. A committee OF nine sena-
tors will do the work. Their recon-
nendations will be acted upon later
Democratic senator's expect on tues
day to appoint a committee to arrange
the minority membership on commit
tees. 1t is believed Culbertson, Texas
will be made party leader on the HOOP
Many changes have been made IN
seats II, the senate. Most Of the re-
Y publicans who in the last senate were
crowded over on the democratic side
have got seats among their colleagues
The exceptions are La Toilette, WIS
consin, and Burkett Nebraska, who re-
main members of the Cherokee strip
they will have as companions the fol-
lowing new senators of their party:
Guggenheim, Colorado; Briggs, New
Jersey; Stephenson, Wisconsin; ano
wettnbore, Rhode Island, provided ne
IA re-.sleoted. They will occupy the
four back seats. Borah, idaho; Bourne
oregon; Brown, Nebraska; Dixon
Montana. and Richardson, Delaware
win occupy seats in front of them
Kittredge's Seat No. %.
Mc1,arfn. Mississippi, has taken the
seat OF the late Senator Morgan, Ala
bama. McCreary, Kentucky, VIII s u,
next TO him. Newlands, Nevada, will
move 10 the front row tier, the seat OF
4he late Senator Pettus Of Alabama
clark, Arkansas, has taken the seat
occupied for so many years by MS
personal enemy, Berry, Of the same
state.
Sly new senators have been assigned
places in the rear row: Davis, Arkan-
sas; Taylor. Tennessee; Paynter, Ken
lucky; johnson, Alabama, and the two
Oklahoma senators. Beveridge. Indiana
has taken the seat occupied for SO
MANY years by Spooner, resigned
Dick. Ohio, has moved down from the
back row to the first in the front
where Alec, Delaware, used to sit
Knox, Pennsylvania, has moved over
from the democratic side to the good
seat in the center of the republican
group, Vacated by Beverage, while
Kittredge, South Dakota, has been
Wettanore's place in the second row.
1t bears the number "23."
President Roosevelt's annual mes
sage to congress will open with a
broad and confident expression of be-
lief in the resources of America and
an a1peal to the citizens to keep their
money in circulation.
1t will be patriotic in tone, conserv-
alive without being reactionary. The
message will be regarded by many as
a political work OF art. 1t reaches out
ITO reassure and please the business
roAlrao1 man IA working