The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-12-11

III lHe mouse VIII likewise De de-
terent to the Republican leaders.
In recent years therc has been a NUM-
Der of revolts against the house or
ganization. If Mr.. Taft and Mr..
Cannon should have a sharp falling
out about legislative policies, i:
not be difficult to form a group Of
progressive western republicans. That
progressive western republicans.
That number acting and voting in
dependently could harrass the leader
ship very effectively.
All the prospects will be we'll
talked over during the short session
of congress. There has been little
opportunity yet for congress to de-
termine whether Mr.. Taft will be
more or less forceful than Mr..
Roosevelt in getting what he wants
in legislation.
The leaders are uncertain whether
he will play as masterful a hand
against them as Mr.. Roosevelt has
played, but they feel more friendly
to him than they have to any other
incoming president for the last 20
years, except Mckinley, and there is
a very general desire among repub-
Leans to start off we'll with him.
Campaign Publicity.
During the present session, the
National Publicity Bill Organization,
of which Perry Belmont is president,
will renew its propaganda for the en-
actment Of a federal law compelling
publication of campaign contribu-
lions in all national and state cleo
lions. There is such bill already
on the calandar of the House of
Representatives, which failed of
passage only because there was at
tached to it force bill' in the
losing moments of the last session
by those controlling the House, who
lid not desire to have any such law
apply in the recent Presidential ell
ection.
This bill provides for the publ
cation of campaign expenses both
before and after election, very much
lfter the fashion that was observed
ny the Democratic National Commit
-ee in the recent campaign.
Rules Revision.
Representative Charles z. Town
send, of Michigan, who has been
ipoken of as speaker of the next
House, has commenced crusade for
rules revision. THE only active
campaign 1 will make,' saiI Mr..
Townsend, sis not for he speaker
ship. but for revision of the House
rules so that the speaker and his
party colleagues on the Committee on
Rules will not be the whole thing.
Several Of our strongest revisionists
were defeated at the election. Their
defeat naturally weakens the revi-
sion forces. Still, we are going to
make a fight"
Sherman in the House.
Behold of all beholders on the
floor of the House today, looming
even larger in the public eye than
Uncle Joe" Cannon, was Represen-
tative Sherman, the vice president
elect. When Mr.. Sherman took his
old seat in the front row of the
House today to serve out his term
as member of the Sixtieth congress,
his fellows witnessed a vice-presi-
lent elect take part in its deliber-
atoms for a second time in the his
cory of that body. Schuyler Colfax,
of Indiana. and like Mr.. Sherman, a
native Of New York, continued to
serve as speaker of the house for
half a term in this fortieth congress
after he had been elected vice-pres-
dent on the ticket headed by Ulysses
S. Grant.
On March 3, 1869, Schuyler Col
fax resigned as speaker in order
that he might prepare for his inau-
guration as vice-president. He called
Representative James F. Wilson, of.
Iowa, to the chair, and moved the
election of Theodore NJ Pomeroy,
of New York, as speaker. The mo-
ton was carried unanimously, and
for one day Mr.. Pomeroy acted in
that capacity. The fortieth Congress
ended on March a, and James G.
Blaine was elected speaker Of the
41st. Mr.. Colfax remained as a
Speaker even during the counting
and recording of the ELECTORAL votes
which made him vice president, and
although this action caused some
comment at the time it was finally
decided that it was parliamentary
and constitutional.
Mr.. Sherman will have no official
part to take in his formal election,
which takes place in February, al
! though he will be as active in legis-
lative affairs in this session as he
has been in the past. To him will
fall the principal work of framing
the Indian appropriation bill, while
his work on the Rules Committee
and the Interstate and Foreign Com
| merce Committee is expected to give
him busy session in the House be-
| fore he goes to the Senate to pre-
side over that body.
Southern Commercial Congress.
| Washington, Dec. 7.-Promin-
snt men representing the entire South