Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-05-06

Representative Fowler sprung SEN
sation in "a resolution providing for
the appointment of the committee on
committees and taking away from the
speaker the power to make appoint
ments. The New Jersey congressman
thought that it was privileged reso-
luton, but under the rule it had to
lie over for ten days aid it is now pre-
dicted that the fight will come upon
the second, when Mr.. Fowler will call
his resolution up for action.
Just what the vote on the Fowler
resolution will be no one can say. as
the New Jersey man sprung it without
consultation with his colleagues. and
there have been, thus far, no confer
ences between the Democrats and
Progressive Republicans to secure
united action. The indications, how
ever. are that there will not be the
same unity of action between these
forces that there was on the resolu-
ton to take the Speaker off the COM
mittee ON rules. There is plenty of
time between now and the time the
resolution will come up for conference,
but the majority of the Prorressives
are opposed to reopening the anti-Can
non fight until some of the legislative
measures that are pending an1 that
they deem desirable shall have passed
the house. The Progressives maintain
that they are the real supporters of
what is good in the Taft administra-
tive program, and they do not desire
to do anything which shall interfere
with the perfection of the railroad bill
and the passage of a good postal sa-
wings bank bill Consequently, it is
probable that the Fowler resolution
will be sidctracked until these meas
ures are out of the way and then that
the Progressives will find way to
take up the Cannon issue.
While the house is preparing for an
other attack on Cannonism it has in
cidentally dealt a blow to Ballinger-
ism by refusing to pass the Ballinger
land withdrawal bill in the form in
which it came from the secretary of
the interior.
The bill, as reported and as orig
inally prepared by Ballinger. pro-
vided that the president could with
draw public lands for purpose of
classification, and that when classified
they should be Immediately restored
to entry. Withdrawals heretofore made
were ratified. but 1t was provided that
where an entry had been initiated the
withdrawal should not affect the claims
thus established or prevent the issu-
ance of patents. A third provision vir-
tually legalized the Cunningham and
other coal claims in Alaska
These were stricken out by a COM
biaation of Progressive Republicans
ard Democrats. AS finally stripped of
Ballingerism, the bill authorizes the
president to withdraw public lands for
public uses or for classification, and
provides that when withdrawn these
lands shall not be restored to entry ex-
cept by act of congress or by the pres.
ident himself.
All Withdrawals thus far are vail
dated, so that there may be no dis
cute hereafter and the president is
asked to make recommendations to
congress respecting lands withdrawn.
so that congress may deal with them
for the best interests of the public.
Standpatters Are Dazed.
Organization Republicans are dazed
because of the upheaval in the Ro-
chester district in New York following
so closely upon the overturn in the
Massachusetts district. The defeat of
Boss Aldridge in Rochester has
thrown the standpatters into a panic.
They try to explain away the Foss
victory by declaring that his opponent
was unpopular and that it was hard
to tell who in that district was a Re-
publican and who Democrat. Boss
Aldridge, however, in the Rochester
district was a tried Organization man.
There was no mistaking his politics.
He stood for Cannonism. He ap-
plauded the Aldrich tariff law. He
stood for everything in the Republican
party against which the Progressive
element of the party is pledged.
For publication, stories are given
out explaining that the result in
New York turned largely upon the fit
ness of the candidate. Until the re-
turns were received everybody here
believed that Aldridge would be elect
ed Even the Democrats thought that
the hold of the Republican machine
was SO strong upon that district that
there was no hope of securing the
election of the member of their party.
Progressives Not Worried.
The only men in congress who do
not show any signs of political worry
SO far as their own political fortunes
are concerned are the Progressive Re-
publicans. The confidence with which
these men rely upon the record which
they have made to carry them
through their districts is almost as
disconcerting 10 the Cannon machine
as are the results from New York
and Massachusetts. The chief sig
nificance Of these elections is that
the attempt of the Cannon Organiza-
ton and the administration to force
NAidrichism and Cannonism down the
threats of the Progressive Republic