Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-03
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE
Speaker Cannon Re-esested and HuIea
ReaAODted.

Speaker Cannon Rs-eaectQd and HuIee
ReaAODted.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2--Promptiy at u
o'clock Clerk Mcdowell entered the cham.
Der OF representatives, accompanied by the
veteran assistant serseant-at-arms, Colonel
E s, Pierce, bearing the mace, the emblem
Of order in legislative bodies. The hum OF
conversation suddenly ceased and Clerk
Mcdowell declared the body duly in ses-
sion. Chaplain couden Immediately Of.
fered prayer. after which tho roll was
called.
An interested spectator. who was given
the privileges Of the floor, was Str Cour~
tenay ubert, clerk to the speaker OF Par
lament. He was present at the guest Of
Speaker Cannon. The roll call occupied
twenty minutes and showed S65 members
present.
Amid great applause on the republican
side. Representative Hepburn OF Iowa nom
mated Joseph q. Cannon OF Illinois for
speaker. Equally demonstrative were the
democrats when Representative Clayton
put in nomination Representative John
Sharp Williams of Mississippi
The vote on the speakership resulted:
Joseph @. Cannon, 3J7; John Sharp VIII
Inns. lH. Amid thunderous applause, m
which republicans and democrats alike
Joined, Speaker Cannon was escorted down
the center aisle to his chair by a commit
tee OF which Representative Williams was
chairman. In a brief speech Mr. williams
said the speakership was the 81 oond high
est office in the United States. He had
the honor, he said. for the third time "of
not introducing. but presenting to the con-
Rress the Hon. Joseph @. Cannon Of mi-
nols as It's speaker.
Speaker Cannon Responds.
When the applause had subsidized Speaker
Cannon said:
we are today organizing the sixtieth
congress. marking the one hundred and
twentieth milestone in the history OF gov
ernment by the people under the consti-
tuition. Our predecessors In tho years
that are passed have left to us an example,
OF wisdom. moderation and courage thai
has never failed to preserve the ideals and
the interests OF republican government m
many crises, whether OF peace or war
adversely or prosperity.
Each generation 10 statesmen has had
its own peculiar problems and its own
particular embarrassments. No problems
OF government ever recur IN exactly the
same way. The formulas Of action In one
exigency may never be applied safely ia
another. Government. 30 far aa Il re-
lates to courses OF action has no nxed
who have gone before justihes living men
IN approaching live problems with purpose
or with vision oireunscribed by the linn
itAtions OF the past"
InteFPFets Peoples WGn.
But the fundamental principles OF free
government are eternal ana unchanginS,
resting on the will and responsibility OF
the people and put IN action thrOuGh the
deliberations and conscientious and Eealous
representatives OF tAat Will. This house is
the only institution under our constitution
where that viii Of the people may he ex-
pressed with a fairness approximai '0E 90
! scientific accuracy Other departments OF
the governments have lofty and important
functions. but to this house alone b lonEB
the peculiar the delicate and the all-sur-
passing function OF interpreting ana put
ting In definite form the will OF the people.
This duty We must perform ourselves. The
principles OF the past may help us 20 the
extent OF showing us the points Of the
compass. but beyond that we must depend
on our own wisdom. our own conEtancy,
our own industry and our own hdeiity TO
duty.
80 far as the duty OF Organising this
house shall devOlye upon me / shall en-
deavor TO perform the duty IN 4 Uay 70
justify the oonhdence which your selectIon
implies. and a. promots The great purposes
for which We are aasonblod. But "a orl-