Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-03-19
With Aid Of Democrats They
Amend House Rules.
SPEAKER SHORN OF POWER
Any Member Enabled to Call Up
Bills for Action.

Of the stormiest sessions in it's history
the house of representatives, regard
less of party alignment, adopted, 211
to LIP, a resolution by Mr.. Fitzgerald
NDem., N. " whereby the rules were
amended in severa! important particu
lars. The resolution was a substitute
for one offered by Mr.. Clark Of Mis-
souri,.
It's adoption was accomplished only
after the insurgents" with the aid of
the Democrats, with one or two excep-
lions, had won a decided preliminary
victory by voting down resolution
by Mr.. Dalzell of Pennsylvania max
ing the unamended rules of the Six
tieth congress applicable to those of
the present congress.
Speaker Cannon is inclined to re-
gard the amendment as slight i'm
provement on the present rules, in
that instead of throwing the RESPONSE
bility for recognition on him it sets
aside certain days for the considera-
ton of measures under unanimous
consent; but, he says, under the new
rules members will have to wait for
those days
Effect ct Amended Rules.
As analysed by parliamentarians the
amendment makes three important
changes. First, it establishes "calen-
dar for unanimous consents" the ef-
feet of which is to enable a member
to have proposition brought before
the house without having to go to the
speaker for recognition. This change,
they say, will be relief to the speak
er. Second, when consideration of
bill is concluded and the previous
question is ordered the rules hereto
fore have provided for motion to
commit with or without instructions.
1t has been the practice to recognize
q member of the majority party to
make this motion and thus prevent
the minority from offering. such in
structiOns as it may desire The new
rule gives the minority the preference
In making such a motion and thus en-
ables them to get record vote on
propositions which would otherwise
be settled in committee Of the whole
house, where no record vote is posi-
BILE. Third, it protects the calendar
Wednesday by requiring two-thirds
instead of majority vote to set it
aside. Fourth, it is also claimed that
the amendment will have the effect of
preventing favor;tism by the action of
the committee on rules in special
cases.
The Vote on Speaker.
When the roll was called on the
vote for speaker MIR. Cary (Wis.), one
of the insurgents, when his name was
called, voted for his colleague, Henry
A. Cooper, also an insurgent, who, in
turn voted for George W. Norris of
Nebraska. Mr.. Cooper received an
other vote from Mr.. Davis of Mime
sofa.
Mr.. Hinshaw (Neb) gave his vote
tc Norris, while Hubbard of Iowa fa-
vCred Cooper. Mr. kopp (Wis.) cast
sAAH9 WV Aux A'tI. I-SCI. Ills COlIGdguG.
MIR. Lenroot (Wis.) voted for Cooper,
while Lindbergh (Minnl recorded his
vote for w. P. Hepburn Of Iowa, an
ex-member. -Four more votes were
added to the Cooper column when
Messrs. Morse, Nelson and Poindexter
(W1s.) and Murdoch (Kan.) an
nounced themselves for him. None of
the candidates whose names were pre-
scented voted for himself, although,
with the exception of MI. Cannon,
they were all present.
Clerk Mcdowell proceeded to an
nounce the vote, when objection was
made >. by. Mr.. Clayton (Ala.), who
made the point that the result should
be based on the report OF the tellers
and not the tally clerks. In. conse-
apfnce there was a short delay.
FINALLY the tellers reported as ia
lows: Cannon 204, Clark 1e6, Esch !.
Norris 2, Cooper 8, Hepburn /. :