Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
NO FIGHT EXPECTED
Little Desire to Oppose Speak
er's Reelection.
CANNON COMING SOON
Will Confer With Members Regard
ing Short Session.
TO EXPEDITE LEGISLATION
Reasons That Will Operate Against
Contest for Presiding officer
of the Next House.
TO EXPEDITE LEGISLATION

Speaker Cannon is expected in Washing
ton the latter part of next week to remain
for the winter. He will confer with in
coming members of the House con-
corning the business of the approach
ing session. and will do all he can
to expedite legislation for the short ses-
sion. The subcommittee of the appro-
priation committees will meet the latter
part OF the month and draw up the
framework of the first appropriation bills
of the session.
Speaker Cannon's friends do not appre-
hend any fight on his reelection to the
speakerShip In the sixty-first Congress.
1t is a question now of 'Who wants to
start anything" and there does not seem
to be any one anxious to do the starting
Representative Fowler Of New Jersey is
muttering in his beard, threatening to
make a run against the Speaker. but he
does not happen to have his own state
delegation behind him. Mr.. Fowler's atti-
tude is believed to bear more upon the re-
tention of his own committee chairman
ship. the Committee on Banking and Cur
rency. than upon higher ambition.
If a fight should be made on Speaker
Cannon, the insurgents would probably
look to Mr.. Burton Of Ohio to lead them.
but Mr.. Burton is wary gentleman and
it Is said they will have to show him.
some mighty apparent prospects of sue
cess before he SHES his castor into the
ring. There is an unbroken tradition
that the Speakership and the presidency
should never claim the same state, and it
will probably hold good this time.
Necessity for Harmony.
But the impelling motive which is ex-
pected to move for the reelection of
Speaker Cannon is the necessity for har-
mony in the next Congress. Good team
work is essential in the revision of the
tariff and other legislation with which
the new administration will be charged.
and it is pointed out that it will not be
conducive to harmony to open up a speak
ership contest with Mr. Cannon as the
prospective victim
1t turns out that all the campaign man
ayers who worked for a republican major
ity In the next House are the Speakers
firm and fast friends, and they. in COM
pany with the leading spirits in the pres
ent Organization of the House, will resist
any efforts to break up the harmony of
the organization on the eve Of what must
be an effort for highly important legisla-
ton In which the whole republican party
is vitality interested
Members Who Abjured Cannon.
There is some speculation as to the
prospective attitude of those republican
candidates for the House. who, frightened
by the onslaughts on Mr.. Cannon during
the campaign, sought personal safety by
abjuring him in advance of their election.
Will they stay out of a republican caucus.
as Mr.. Lenroot of Wisconsin threatens or
will they content themselves with voting
against Mr.. Cannon in caucus and then
accepting the verdict of a majority?
The example of Mr.. Peter A. Porter in
the last session, may serve as a warning.
He tried to carry water on both shoulders
before election. and when the roll was
called in the House found he was not
considered a republican. The democrats
wouldn't own him and he had a hard time
of it all around.