The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-04-21
EAST SEES
MURC5CK
POLITICAL
GENIUS


on the HOUSE ROLES. The article 7
prelaccd hy al account OF Murdock
The story. with a large portrait %
the kansan elWlng al Speaker Can
non, 0ccupies a fall page
~Someh0ds, the Herald says. mas
called Victor Murd0ck the .ed hair
"a Kansas man who always Is laugh
ing and always Ia dead eeFnest A'
always rs IN earnest, bat he doesn'
always laugh away back ID Wichita
IN the late sos Murdoch and william
Alien White used 20 f%oreeather ant
IN The 'fullntss of their youth plaf
their future. whereby Murdoch was &c
be- the great literary light Of Kansas
ana white lts political genius.
"That plan went askew. Murdoch
n moi great ia the literary sense, but
speaker Cannon win bear evidence ID
the fact that he has made bis political
mark. White Is not much 81 a states
man. hui he Wr.le Whats The Mat
Ter With kansas' and stories that are
CLASSES In tho present day boys ne
eratufe. Furthermore. It Is the upin
i0E Of Kansas that neither Mnrdocl
nor White has we'll started upon hie
Journey"
His Fight on 4 Mail Graft
The Herald tells OF Mnrdoc1s Eight
against the railway mail graft j
says.
IN q recent letter, written 70 one
81 bis personal friends IN New York.
Mr.. Murdoch wrote.
after had been down here 9
while discovered & Thing which had
been hidden away ~thlrty-nve years
having escaped four special commits
siuns which had made a search Of the
premises for "a and an expert sta
tistician. who was paid $4,000 for his
efforts. Want ! found was this. n
the computation for finding .he aver
ave daily weight upon which average
dalls weight the government paid the
railroads for the carriage o. The mail
me pestoiiiee department has been
Weighing The mails seven days, that
rs. every DAY IN The week, and then
dividing bs Six 10 YET the ayeraea
dailf weight IN either words, The De
partaent included Sunday IN the G!yt
dena. but exclude u IN the diylsor
A Waste Or 6 Million 2 Year
'ily this process ] figured oni that
III t~hlrty.touf Years the government
had ayereHla The railroads 70 million
doll8fs. and at the moment of alscov
ery usU ugefpeyiug lhem at The rate
III 8 4~nifllon dollars 4 year. seif.cyl
dent as lais proposition was. L was
s0 ~asiouudiue as 70 inspire disbelief
Over a period covering mentla I made
tic fight m committee and h The
opea House Cor d correction made
etefs possible melton under the rules
that unuld he made, 6inned the
proposition III The ears of the House
dag after day aud The highest Voio /
ever received IN taat fight was seven.
geen out of Il membership OF asa I'm
mediaiely after Congress adjourned
Roe seeels, 10 whom . had appealed.
corrected Che practice By an execn.
tive order issued ~ the postmaster
poneral. There Is net j soul IN The
United States who defends the old
computations today.
It was til!a which started me ~
the campaign against the rules. .laY.
Ing had fhe experience AMI actual
demonstration az The pltlable helpless
noes ~ the Individual representative
even when armed With e proposition
ltkai in Is gers nature Was unde
niatly lusi. II became to me a ecm
lpol.lag duty 20 free the vehicle O
/ legislation
| csnnea Admlrcs Murcoelt
Air Cannon has great admiration
for The red halred k8aaan he lkel
him. hut he desplses his methods. NJ
lCanaoa certainly believes that tn
wheels Of government would be clog
ged II indIglduallsm Is not s%uppressei
la Tho House of Representatives. III
rules. In hls opinion, are saving 81
government from disaster Murdoch
lhtlds TO the contrary, and SO long q
he 30 holds he may be trusted to COZ
Time his fight from his seat On tn
ldnr OF the House"
After a general discussion Of ~
House and rs methods 81 doing busl
neus. Murdoch sayS IN the article
printed IN The Herald.
1T ITS principal points the power Q
the Speaker Is threefald, There l.
first. TIE power Of inQuialtcFlal recos
milton. second. the power which conn
through his control OF and member
shin On The cnmmlttee on rulers ans
the appointment 81 all committees
third. ccutrol over business. Al pre-
ont lhe sneaker may SLY 10 4 mem
Der Whu has Obtained recognition
when TIE mcmher Il IN order an
hes made hls motion. srhe &c ntlomal
A not rerognlzed for that purpose.
How the Speaker Controls
8FHy hia control Of the committee q
raea and lis participation III lts Dc
nteratls ms and ~ he appointment q
other committees be Is enabled 4
nfeaph loyalty IL lhe persons aud POI
lolee Of The csaifmnn 81 committee
and because he ~deslrhatcs chalrmel
Ne Il enabled 20 obtain thee loynIll
10 him and his Policies. Thore are n
words vi mweffm In he fgouse 3
these. THE Speaker wants It.s He m
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