Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-08-06
CANNON CANNOT
SEE INSURGENTS
SPEAKER WILL APPOINT ONLY
CIRCULARS" MEMBERS OF I'M
PORTANT COMMITTEES.
TO REWARD FAlTHFULNESS.
Choice Selection of Assignments VIII
Be Announced in Washington Some
Time This Week.
M. FOWLER WILL BE RETIRED.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. "A
! choice selection of committee assign
ments is to be handed out by Speaker
Cannon this week. 1t is impossible to
verify this statement by anything that
| is said by those prominently mentioned"
for certain chairmanships, but the fact
remains that faithful service and fidelity
to the speaker and the Republican reg
ulars' is probably to be rewarded before
the special session adjourns. 1t is not
likely that there will be any time for
| speeches as to the merits of the speak
er's assignments. but this does not indi-
cate that the members of the House are
not personally more interested in Uncle
JOes programme than they have been
| in the tariff.
| When certain Republicans waged war
on the rules which the regulars want
| ed adopted at the beginning of the eX
| ira session the ''insurgents" were fully
aware that if the fight was lost, the
! members defeated would not be likely to
get choice berths on the committees.
| Therefore these ''insurgents' will not be
disappointed, but there are number of
! regulars" who will of necessity be con-
! siderabIy grieved as there is a relative
| y small limit to the number of chair
manships to be dealt out by the
| speaker.
Will Retire Fowler
! Representative Charles n. Fowler of
| New Jersey was chairman of the COM
mittee on banking and currency during
| the last Congress, but Mr.. Fowler in
Cured the displeasure of Mr.. Cannon
| by ''insurging" against the rules very
| early in the season, and a little later add
ed to this dispeasure by actually coming
| 0ut as a candidate for speaker against
! Uncle, Joe. 1t is therefore in the nature
Of things congressional that new chair
man will be named. 1t is no secret about
the House that Representative Nreeland
Of New York is the speakers choice.
! This situation applies especially to the
| interstate and foreign commerce commit
| tee of which Col. Pete" Hepburn was
chairman for a number Of years. Mr..
Mann is said to be the choice of the
| speaker for chairman.
Should the speaker see fit he may APP
ply the same programme to the commit
| tee on postoffices and postroads and the
I judiciary committee. both of which VIII
| be very active during the next session.
| Representative Gardner of New Jersey
| is the ranking member OF the former.
| But Repre-. entative dwight OF New
| York. who is the Republican whip, has
been spoken of as a strong possibility
for the Craftsmanship of this committed.
1U SuCC6Su } uh1AS
Representative Parker of New Jersey
| is the ranking member of the judiciary
committee. of which former Representa-
tive Jenkins of Wisconsin was the CHAIR
man. Representative Moon of Pennsyl-
vana, who has headed the committee
| that has had charge of the revision of
| the laws. stands an even chance with
| Parker. since the work of revising the
| laws has been completed.
| Conservative members of the majority,
| however. contend that the speaker can
not afford at this time to create further
enmity by ignoring ranking members of
! committees in selecting the chairmen. 1t
| is said, therefore, that Representative
| office and judiciary committees respec-
| lively.
An entirely different status governs
! the appointment of chairman for the
| insuar affairs committee. Representa-
| tive Cooper of Wisconsin, who was chair
man of this committee, in the last Con-
! gress. is still a member of the House,
| but he was one of those who voted
against the Cannon rules" and is there
fore scheduled to lose. 1t is generally
| conceded Representative Olmstead of
| Pennsylvania will supercede Cooper
The committee on rivers and harbors
| is one of the most sought after plums.
1t is said Mr.. Alexander of New York
could have the Craftsmanship of the judi
! ciary committee if he desired it, but he
is understood to covet, and probably will
secure the vacancy left by Senator Bur
| ton.