Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-15
NORRIS TALKS Al HASTINGS
Outlines Some Work Accomplished by
the Insurgents.
Is TO RECEIVE AID IN CAMPAIGN
Madison and Murdock OF Kansas
Coming 60 stump Nebraska
for tho Republican
Ticket.

HASTINGS, Neb., oct. H-(speciaL)-
Congressman G w. Norris Thursday al
the Nebraska Fall festival discussed pro-
gressive policies and confiEed his remarks
chiefly to the significance Of the battle
OF the insurgents in the last house for a
revision Of the rules. He made Il clear that
when the insurgents took from the
speaker the power OF appointing standing
committees, they won the victory they had
been working for and that to have fol
lowed that up by an attempt to depose the
speaker would have brought about chaos
in the house and probably an adjournment
without action on important pending
measures. He charged Representative
Burleson Of Texas with attempting
to trick the insurgents with the reso-
luton to GUST Cannon.
To the Ala Of Norris.
During the day Mr.. Norris said he had
information which would effectually dis
prove the statements made by II. d.
Sutherland, the democratic nominee for
congress- and others to the effect that in
surgent leaders IN congress had declined
TO aid him in his campaign for reelection.
Congressman Madison Of Kansas had
written him that he would come to the
Fifth district to make speeches for him
on October II and Is and Congressman
Victor Murdoch of the same state had in
formed him that he would be in the dis
trict for a similar purpose on October p
and o. Both were prominent in the stand
with Norrls,to take from the speaker the
power OF naming committees Senator
Cummins volunteered to make two
speeches in the district but Mr.. Norris
yielded one to the state committee for
Lincoln and the other will be made here
on October 26. Senators LaFollette and
Dolliver planned to come but both have
been forced to cancel their dates on &C
count Of sickness.
Work of the Trusts.
In his speech Mr.. Norris said the support
of the Tammany democrats made it pos
sible for Cannon's friends to secure the
adoption Of the old rules at the beginning
Of the last session and that in return the
Cannon influences helped Tammany ma
nipulate legislation at Albany. He said
the Standard OIL company, the sugar
trust. and numerous other gigantic con-
Germs vitality interested in the impending
tariff revision also exerted a potential
influence for the speaker and the adoption
Of the old rules
Mr.. Norris declared that the fight Of the
Insurgents was not TOT revenge on Cannon,
but for a change in the rules which gave
Cannon control of the committees. He
said the Cannon influence tried to force
them to turn their fight into a personal
attack, when, after they finally won their
victory. Burleson presented the motion to
depose the speaker. Burleson made this
move, he said, after a conference with
Representative Tawney, one Of Cannon 8
chief supporters. The defeat of that mo-
ton, Mr.. Norris declared, was the vote of
all votes which required the most courage
on the part of the insurgents. If they had
allowed it's adoption they would have made
difficult, IL not impossible the future en-
actment Of progressive legislation. But
they refused to be trapped and between
then and the adjournment more progress
sive legislation was enacted than at any
other session in the history of congress.