New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-25
CANNON TO FOWLER
Speakers Tart Reply to Congress
mans attack.
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Mackinac Island Mich. Aug. 23-Speaker
Cannon. hurt angry and sore. used strong IAN
guage tonight about Representative Charles
n Fowler and the Fowler letter: rq-
why in should / notice Fowler.
asked the Speaker. in biting tones. when PROOF
sheets of the Fowler letter were handed 20 MIN
He left Congressman Mckinley. or ILLINOIS,
ex-senator Hemenway. of Indiana. and ALVIN
It. Hurt. whose house guest he is on Mackinac
Island. TO read at length what Mr.. Cannon SAID
screed.
Mr. Cannon read ii ALL The cigar tenderly
placed at rest under Mr. Hurts big lamp.
The Speaker looked il carefully. growing
TO himself from time to time. with one home
spun clad leg cooked over the other until he
had finished
Get your pencil" said the Speaker. and he
answered Mr. Fowler's attack as follows:
II have glanced at Representative Fowler
letter. To those who have the patience 10 read
his letter If any such there be. II will appear
that when. In the exercise of the duties thrown
upon me as Speaker OF the House OF Repre-.
sentatives. I failed to make him chairman or
the Committee on Banking and Currency. 70 his
mind became thoroughly selfish and generally
a bad citizen and Representative
MIR. Fowler and myself both are members or
the national House of Representatives. and
am perfectly willing that my action in not ap-
banking and Currency shall be indOrsed or con-
demned by our colleagues of the House OF Rep
resentatives.
This is all desire to say touching his letter"
"Will you speak specifically of any OF the items
in the Fowler arraignment?'
why the - should answer him?" said
Speaker Cannon He is - joke. All of Con-
gress knows he is joke
We'll. what about his specific charges as re-
CARDS the alleged packing of the conference
committee on the tariff bil?" the Speaker was
asked.
Put that question specifically and will an
swer IT," he replied.
Was the conference committee on the part of
the House named through any arrangement be-
tween yourself and Senator Aldrich were
the House conferrees named in the manner or
form as charged by Representative Fowler
was the categorical question submitted 10
Speaker Cannon This is the dictated reply of
the Speaker:
1T is beneath my contempt dignity to
notice any statement made by Fowler that there
any sort of an agreement by which the
House tariff conferrees were named 1t is below
my notice"
This ended the Cannon interview, the Speaker
closing with the statement that he would not
further dignity the Fowler letter by discussing
it, publicly or privately.
Il am through with Fowler and the Fowler
letter" declared the Speaker This. however.
did not end his comment privately.
There never would have been an emergency
currency bill" said member of the House
tonight. IF the great majority of the Repub-
lican side had not fatty put down the heel on
the Fowler neck and ANONYMOUSLY discharged
him and his committee from further COnsdera-
ton of measures over which he now yowls like
q homeless stray at midnight. with the moon
rising at the side of the Washington Monu-
ment."