The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-23
1INSURGENTS' MAKE PROGRESS Trying to Obtain Con- sessions from Cannon. 4 REVISION OF TIE RULES A Bitter Fight Expected in the
 Spring. oppsnenss of Judge Oscar Hupdisy Ap- gear Connaeut They Have Gained . Decided Advantage Dur- :.
 sag the Past week.
 
4 REVISION OF TEE RULES
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Washington, Deos 22--(speciaL) The "insurgent'' Republicans in the House of Representatives claim they are making reasonable progress in their demands that the rules of that body shall be changed so that practt- cally ell power is not lodged in Speak CT Cannon andtthe seven or eight men who are recognized as his trusted lieutenents.
 Representative Gardner. of Msssa- chusetts. appears. to be narshailinG the forces who are trying to obtain some concensions from Uncle Joe" Mir. Gardner Is son-in-Iaw of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and ia q man of much determination. He was sent t0 Congress from the district formerly represented by Hon. William H Moody when the latter left the House to be- come Secretary of the Navy in the cabinet of President Roosevelt. subse- quently being appointed by the Pres ident an associate justice of the Uni- ted States Supreme Court. Gardner like many other. Republicans of the House. has been frettins for several years over the rules which prevent members from calling up measures which do. not have the tag of the Speaker and his legislative nide-part- ners on them.
 When this movement first started, the powerful combine in the House simply laughed ct it. but within the past week they have been compelled to recognize that If some steps are not taken to head it ofE. it may as- sumo alarming proportions in the com ing spring That Is when Mir. Card ner and the other '1sickers' propose to do their utmost to bring about . change in the situation. Speaker Cam non wishes to avoid 6 rumpus then, because he and other Republican man agers of Iegislation realize that if they get into a fight then. 1t may be 8 bitter one. They are understood to be making promises now in order to quiet the feelings of the '1nsur- gents"
 As fast as the new Republican rnem- bers who have been. elected to serve in the next House come to the city, friends of the Speaker are taking them in hand and whispering into their care that everything will be all right, and that if they want to get along smooth " they had better line up with Mr. Cannon and his lfeutenants If they ex. pect fayors in the way of committee assignments at the hands of the pow CTS that be.
 A Seductive Argument.
 This is seductive argument especial-. ? K9A8 out that no combination can possibly be formed to prevent. the reelection of Mir. Cannon as presiding oflcer. The plan of the Speaker and his friends, therefore. ig to create the is1s- precision that the drastic rules are to be modified, but when 1t comes to tafs= ing action the HoAse managera win not go far in the direction pointed out by the "tnsureents" but they hope that whatever is done it will bo sufficient to pull away from Gardner some of his supporters. The latter, however. Is a pretty stubborn sort of man and 1t is common talk here that If enough Republicans stand by him he will with the aid of the Democrats give the Cannon combination a 1oft they will remember for a long time.
 Information has been coming to Washington for the past several months that many members of the bar at Birmingham as well as those con- nected with the bars of other Ala baIaa cities, have been wIthdrawauw their Inducements from Acting Judge Oscar R. Hundley. Some have writ ten letters to United States Senators to this effect. Of late 1t has been re- ported that a great many others are in 6 frame of mind to do the same thing. Those who contemplate any such action should communicate with Hon. A. O. Bacon, United States