The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-28
sUncle Joe" Failed to Regen-
crate Himself
i'm SIGHT OF PRESIDENT
Politicians Think That Taft Is Grooming
Townsend for the speakership-
Senator Burrows Also SIN
Bad

Beverly, Aug 2s,-Trouble for ~Uucl'
joe Cannon, speaker Of the House Of
Representative, is brewing at Beverly
The talk that Speaker Cannon cannot
and will not be reelected speaker o.
teh next Congress will not down, and be-
hind it comes the steady advancement o.
Representative Charles Elroy Townsend
Of Michigan
President Taft's selection Of Townsend
to champion the administrations revision
Of the corporation and interstate com.
meree laws has attracted a great deal o.
attention. Mr., Townsend is the only
member 81 Congress wso was invited e
ST with the law commission which is "a
draft Mr.. Taft's recommendations to
Congress
Townsend has for years been reeog.
nized a. one Of the great lawyers 81 Con.
eress. It was the Townsend bill
which was finally put into shape and
adopted under the name Of the Hepburn
Bill, 70 regulate railway rates. II was
not Representative Mann Of Illinois,
who succeeds Mr. Hepburn as chairman
Of the important interstate commerce
committee who wrote the bill, but Mr..
Townsend
Mr.. Mann was Speaker Cannqn's choice
for this craftsmanship, but Representa-.
tive Townsend IS the presidents choice
to act as his spokesman on the floor Of
the House when the changes in the in
tersfate commerce law are before the
representative Representative Town.
send will introduce the presidents bill,
and Representative Townsend win get
credit for the authorship Of the legisla.
ton, to the study Of which be has given
an 81 his congressional career. Mr..
Townsend came 70 the ffty eighth Con.
eress and has been elected to each sue,
ceeding one, the last time BY 1000 ma
iority
Speaker cannon's tenure on the head
chair IN the House may be limited The
president did not try to defeat him at
his last election as speaker, and the
presidents friends expected a regenera-
lion o. the speaker out Of gratitude to
tie president Their expectations were
shattered. and they found in Cannon
during the tariff fight one Of the big
stumbling blocks TO the Taft policy for
downward revision.
The one item il the tariff bin which
incensed President Taft above an Others
was the increase in the glove duties
which Mr. Cannon got for his friend,
Lucisn Littauer Of GloversYiIle, n NJ
glove manufacturer and formerly d
representative. President Taft was
against these increases, but he could not
prevail on the Cannon following ia the
House to yield them The president had
To whip Cannon in the conference before
the Dingley duties on gloves were re-
stored.
The president has not forgotten Can.
mons attitude and he has not forgotten
the loyalty with which Townsend acted
when he left the insurgent camp to per
NIT Mr.. Taft's tariff policy to 60 through
under the auspices Of the Republican
organization. Mr. Townsend is altogeth-
er out Of harmony with Cannonism and
he was severely criticised for leaving the
insurgents. but he left in the interests
Of party harmony That the presidents
favor for Mr. Townsend is slowly send
ing him along toward the speakers chair
ii believed b. wen informed politicians.
More than this, the presidents favor
i not going TO help senator julius Caes
an Burrows Of Michigan to get back to
Congress Senator Burrows has fight
on BIS hands with Townsend already,
and the progressive element 81 the Michl
gan Republicans are behind Townsend
In the tariff light Burrows opposed the
president, and it was due 70 Mr. Bur