The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-10-30
DID OUR UNCLE JOE
DICKER WITH TAMMANY I?

WASHINGTON, October 5.-What
ever may be the real motive of Rep
resentative Herbert Parsons, of the
18th New York District, stirring up a
scandal involving Speaker Cannon,
of the House of Representatives and
Tammany and other Democrats, he
has succeeded in causing number
of people to feel uneasy, to say the
least. Mr.. Parsons, as chairman of
the New York City Republican Com
mittee, declared in a statement last
week that New York upstate Repub-
licans Estate Senator Raines among
the number) had made a deal with
Tammany that if it's members in Con-
gress would support Speaker Cannon
in his fight to have the old rules for
the Government of the House adopt
ed at the organization of that body
last March that certain bills to pre-
vent fraud in the elections in New
York city, which Tammany did not
desire passed at Albany, would be
killed. Mr.. Parsons declared that the
Democrats kept their bargain and
that the bills were killed to the shame
of the Republicans who were In the
deal. This is another of the charges
made against the Speaker by the in
surgents in the House, as those who
are opposed to Cannonism are de-
nominated. True, it is, that Demo
Gratis did vote to sustain Speaker
Cannon's Rules Committee This wa
months before the standing commit
tees of the House were selected, so
Mr.. Parsons charges cannot be laid
to disappointment in not being given
a place on the Interstate Commerce
Committee, which it is said, he de.
sired. The increasing bitterness of
the published statements from Mr..
Parsons and his upstate New York
enemies has led politicians to think
that something more than words
would come of the matter when all
the accused Congressman as we'll as
the Speaker and his friends get to-
gether in December.
An investigation before a select
committee is about the only course
open the House members. That was
the method pursued in disposing of
the charges of bribery brought
against an indefinite number of House
members by the late Governor Lilly,
Of Connecticut, when he was a mem
Der OF the House. If that method is
pursued the real fight would come in
the appointment of the committee. If
the accused Democrats and the Or,
ganization adherents have the ma
jority with them, the appointment of
the committee will be left entirely in
the hands of the Speaker. If Mr..
Parsons has backing sufficient, and
the insurgents as a body are almost
sure to support him strongly, he may
try to incorporate into the resolution
insisting on the investigation the
investigation the names of the COM
mittee to conduct it, in that way Sc
curing a favorable hearing OF his
charges.
1t is considered certain that the
question of an investigation will be
put squarely before the House by one
side or the other. Mr.. Parsons at
present is not a very influential fig
ure in the House, and he will be I'M
der great pressure to make good the
serious charges that he has made
against members of his own delega-
ton. If he is reluctant to push his
charges to an issue there are nine
Southern Democrats who are indi-
rectly implicated, and it is almost
certain that they will not allow them
selves to be smirched along with the
whole of Tammany's representation
without doing something to clear
themselves before their constituents.
The nine Democrats who voted
against their party and in favor of
upholding the Cannon rules under
the Leadership of Representative
a McCarrenite of Brook
Ign, were Broussard and Estopinal, of
Moon, of Tennessee;
Brantley, Edward. Griggs, Howard
let, of Nevada. OF these Mr. Moon
gave out a statement for hme con-
to the effect that he feared
a modification of the rules would I'M
seat him from his committee, thereby
him less able to work for
his constituents. The Georgians ana
tariff considerations.
Politicians in Washington are
of the opinion that so pru-
dent a man as Herbert Parsons must
have something more in view than