Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-11-11
CANNON FOR SPEAKER
Friends of Danville N 'ge Will
Be Re-elect
OPPOSITION ON TIL NE
Indications That It Will d.
Before Caucus Meets. ~
TIMBER FOR PLACE LACKING
Mr.. Payne Wishes to Remain at Head
Of Ways and Means Committee.
NO CANDIDATES FROM OHIO
Election of Taft Bars Possible As
pirsnts from Buckeye State
Hepburn of lows Not
Available.
Mr.. Payne Wishes to Remain at Head
of Ways and Means Committee.
NO CANDIDATES FROM OHIO

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1o.-Fo1owing the
arrival In the city of the republican mem.
bers OF the ways and means committee OF
the house for the tariff hearing and many
other republican congressman to attend
20 departmental business postponed until
after election, the selection Of the speaker
Of the Sixty-first congress a subject
OF keen discussion today In Washington.
None OF the arrivals cared to come out
openly In opposition 90 the reelection Of
Speaker Cannon. while members who have
been closely allied with Mr.. Cannon during
his occupancy Of the chair assert posi-
lively that there will be no opposition TO
him by the time the republicans meet 10
caucus on the speakershp. Mr.. Cannon s
friends claim to be greatly encouraged by
the election.
Not only did the speaker himself receive
a handsome plurality in his own district
where bitter fight was waged against
fhm. but they point cut that many Of the
members who had announced their opposi-
tion to nis reelection as speaker met with
defeat at the polls. The defeat OF Repre-
sentatives Edgar c. Ellis of Kansas City,
Mo. and ]. p. Boyd of Nebraska after
they had declared their opposition TO the
speaker is taken by the speakers friends
here as an indication that the people do
not condemn Mr.. Cannon. On the con-
trary, the three Missouri districts in which
he campaigned most actively and where
the republican candidates announced their
preference for Mr.. Cannon for speaker, re-
tired the democratic congressman by elect
ing republicans.
The election is regarded by Mr. Cannon s
adherents as having limited the supply OF
speakership climber" The defeat Of Col
onel w. p. Hepburn OF Iowa at the polls
removes him from a contest for the high
position for the present at least.
No Candidates from Ohio.
The election OF WlIliam IL. Taft 10 the
White House is regarded by Mr.. Cannon
friends as a barrier to any Ohio congress
man being selected to rule over the house
In additions. Congressman Theodore E. Bur
ton and former Speaker J. Warren Keifer,
both af ,ohio., are said to have senatorial
ambitions that would interfere this winter
with campaign on their part for speaker.
Republican floor leader. Serene f.. Payne,
of New York. who was mentioned for the
speakership. when Mr.. Cannon was first
elected TO the chair, will support the
speaker for reelection. For the present
Mr.. Payne Is content to be chairman OF
the ways and means committee, and tc
give 10 tne country larih Dlli pedfihA
his name.
Representative DalEell OF Pennsylvania II
regarded as unlikely to permit his name e
be used In opposition to the speaker. botf
because OF his loyalty to Mr.. Cannon and
because OF his interests in the revision oi
the tariff on which he Is an expert.
Also mentioned for speakership honors II
Representative Henry 8. Boutell OF Illinois
but his political admiration for the speaker
is taken as certain to prevent the use Of
his name against his colleague.
The candidacy of Representative Charles
N. Fowler OF New Jersey for speaker II
not taken seriously by Mr.. Cannon'i
friersds They say that Mr.. Fowler will
do well to retain the chairmanship Of thu
committee on banking and currency, ans
that his course as chairman of that com
mittee during the last session was such a.
would defeat him in a speakersh!p contest