The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-12-26
DEMOCRATS HAVE
I. MADE POOR MOVE
Member of Minority Roasts
Party for AyIiance With
insurgents.
SINCERITY Is NOT REAL
HE AYERS THAT IF DEMOCRATS
WOULD WIN THERE WOULD BE
SAME RULES AND CLARK
WOULD BE THE SPEAKER.
SINCERITY is NOT REAL
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Washington, Dec. 25.-"You can al
| ways depend upon the Democrats to
blunder at the right time for the bene
fit of the Republicans" said veteran
member of the House in discussing
the fight of the insurgents on Speaker
Cannon and Cannonism. You see.
the Democrats made a mistake in max
ing an alliance with the insurgents. :
said he. 1T ought to have been very
plain that the insurgents had every
thing to gain. while the Democrats
had everything to lose. If the Demo
Gratis had been wise they would have
were responsible to the country. and
that they must make the fights with
in the ranks of the majority: that as
body, the Democrats would vote
against the adoption of the rules and
would vote to amend them. BY keep
ing hands off. the split in our party
would have been accentuated, and the
Democrats by maintaining solid
front would have been benefited there
by.
Weaken Their Position.
But instead of that the Democrats
have weakened their position. and
they are on record as favoring the
proposition to take from the Speaker
the appointment of the committees of
the House, and place that work in
the hands of a committee, as is done
in the Senate
Anyone familiar with the history
of the House of Representatives will
tell you that if the Democrats control
the next House. they will adopt the
rules of this congress. and the Speak
err should he be Champ Clark, will
appoint the committees"
There is not the best feeling the
world between Representative Weeks
and Greene of Mass. although both are
Republicans and are regular And all
because OF the ship subsidy which has
been recommended by President Taft.
What Trouble Is.
Mr.. Greene is chairman of the com.
mittee on merchant marine and fisher.
les, while Mr.. Weeks heads the com.
mittee on postoffices and postroads.
Both committees are claiming juris-
diction OF the proposed legislation.
Strange to say, there are pending be-
fore the committees a number of bills
to promote the American merchant
marine in foreign trade, and the ques-
ton that worries the chairmen is
which committee will get there first
with bill for the consideration in the
House.
Chairman Greene thinks the subsi-
dy should be provided for in a sepa-
rate measure, while chairman Weeks
contends that it is necessarily a part
Of the postoffice appropriation bill.
The fight for quick action promises to
add to the excitement of the occasion
when the question Of consideration is
raised.
Chairman Green is pretty sly, and
he smiles when told that Week will
defeat him. The bill. which gets
through the House first. will be known
in history by the name Of the man
who reports it rather than by the name
Of the man who introduced it. AS the
postoffice appropriation bill will not
be taken up by the committee until
after the holiday recess. it is not i'm
probable that the committee on mer-
chant marine and fisheries will report
its bill first. The fight will not begin
before early in January.