Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-26
CANNON is out
WITH STATEMENT
DECLARES HONEST REVISION OF
TIE TARIFF is AIM OF RE
PUBLICAN MEMBERS.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 25.-Declal- H
ing that there will be an honest rcNis' Il
ion of the tariff and that there IS ~
present need of "fretting' about the
selection of speaker for the house III
the sixty-first congress, Speaker Can
non arrived here from his home IN ll.'-
nois late yesterday for the approach
ing session OF congress. In state.
nent issued in the afternoon Cannon
said:
THE election of speaker for tbs |
sixty-first congress is yet a consider
able distance in the future When thar I
congress is about to assemble which |
presume will he sometime in March |
the Republican members OF the
house will mold a caucus, as has been
the custom from the foundation Of the
party, and select candidate for
speaker, to be supported by the party
at the organization of the house. I
presume the representatives will be
perfectly competent to select their
speaker, and 7 do not see any present
need for fretting about the matter.
Honest Revision Assured.
/ "Of course. there will be an honest
/ revision of the tariff. We made the
Campaign on that issue. and every re-
publican member was elected with that
! in view. Every one of those ReDuhn-
cans without exception will believe,
strive to the best Of his Intelligence
and ability to attain the tariff results
desired by the people who elected him.
All will not have the same views and
each one cannot have his own way al
together. There must be mutual con-
cession and compromise. out OF which
come a result which. on the whole,
is the most acceptable or the least OBJ
iectionable to all. That is according
to civilized and enlightened govern
ment. It is the barbarian who expects
to have everything his own way with
out regard to his neighbor.
Speaker Must Assist House.
whoever is elected speaker of the
next house must SO perform his func-
tiops as to assist the house in arriv-
ing at results which will best repre-
sent the views of the responsible par
ty in the house striving to carry out
the will Of the people who elected him.
in over thirty years experience in the
house, some time under one party con-
troll. some time under other, | have
never seen the responsible political
partv 90 wilfully against what IS
thought to be the sentiment OF the
lneople Mistakes have sometimes been
made, as in the case Of the Wilson bill
enacted bv Democratic congress. but
7 believe representatives in the house
earnestly tried to do what they
thought the people wanted. They were
! misled by hasty Judgment passed On
the Mckinley law in 1890. and which
would not. in my opinion have hap
pened had the Republicans had more
time to explain their bill on the stump.
THE Republicans made no mistake
when they enacted the Dingley law as
the long life-as lives of tariff laws go
!--of that law shows. I believe they
vii, make no mistakes in the bill
which they will enact next summer
, with the concurrence Of the senate and
/ president.
Representatives viii DO Peoples Will
a There is one thing which you may
: be sure. Those representatives will
do their best to perform what the PEG
O pie want, for they must go before the
n people in 1910 and account for their
d acts A senator accounts for himself
t once in six years. the president once
in four years. but the representative
II accounts once in two years. Tho
speaker of the house has a double &C
counting to his constituents in hi:
own district and to his association il
d the house who elect him. No repre-
!. sentatives and especially no speaker
<. will fail to do everything within hi
power to carry out the well consideret
e constitutionally expressed will of tn
y majority Of the people.
: "This is why | believe We shall ge
the sort of tariff revision that tn
: people voted for. I do not pretend t
X prophesy or dictate. 1t is. and shout,
be, beyond any mans power to dictat
III TO the house of representatives.
merely speak from long eXperienc
and teachings Of what I believe to b
reason and common sense