Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-03-25
AFTERMATH OF STRUGGLE,
All Parties Now Accuse the Other
Effect,

All Parties Now Accuse the Other j.
Effect.
Washington, March 21.-The titan;o
struggle over the speakership of tbs
house of representatives, which reaobaa
it's climax late Saturday in the destrpe.
ton of the speaker s power in the com.
mittee on rules, yet leaving Mr.. Cannon
the speakership itself, may have marked
not so much the ending of three dav.,
battle as the beginning of great politi.
cal war.
The recognition by all factions Of this
possibility was the principal feature to.
day in the political situation in Wash.
ington.
Hardly anybody here thinks the con.
dition of affairs after the momentops
battle represents a satisfactory condi.
ton. The speaker and his friends ap.
pear to interpret the refusal of the
house to depose him as justifying them
in claiming to have wrested victory
| from defeat.
Not a few of the insurgents who
voted for Mr.. Cannon s retention are
wondering today if they made politi-
cal blunder, and whether their anti.
| Cannon constituents will not indeed
hold the retention of Cannon in the
speakership to have nullifed the vote
| to eliminate him from the rules com.
mittee.
| Whacks at Insurgents.
| ho
claim the insurgents who voted for the
speaker have returned to the party fold.
The democrats taunt these insurgents
with having been recreant to the logic
of their insurgency.
| Nobody seems entirely happy about
the outcome. Even in the senate the
regulars are apprehensive lest the in.
surgent confagration may spread to
that house; the insurgent senators are
wondering whether they have made the
most of their opportunities.
Cannon's Speech stings.
Speaker Cannon IS defiant speech Sat
urday before the Illinois Republican as
ISOLATION, in which he contemporary
denounced the insurgent members of the
house who stood by him in the final test
as "cowardly members of congress
without the courage of their convie
tions,'' has cut to the quick those men
who responded with their votes to what
they say they believed to be their duty
to the party and to the country, and
saved him from utter humiliation.
Today the feeling among these in
surgents was one of bitterness and re-
sentiment over the attitude assumed
toward them.
Summary of Speech.
The portion of the speakers speech
that has thus enraged the insurgents
who saved him the speakership follows
"There was new majority made to-
day. 1t consisted of the democrats and
a Is per cent slough from the republl.
can party. They destroyed the commit
tee on rules. Then what did they dol
A resolution was presented declaring
the Office of speaker vacant.
"Then what did these men who have
been denouncing my personality, these
blHOn-puFe 1OlloWeTS O1 CuHLlHlho NV
La Toilette, do thenR Only eight Of
them. had the courage of their convlc'
tions. The result was that, while was
elected speaker by majority of S6 last
March, they refused to turn me out 9
a majority of SO.
"This combination abolished the
committee on rules, which has, after ALL
simply the power to report to the house
and seem to think it is like the bibllcsl
example, Let there be light and there
was light
"You in Washington know different
ly. But the people in the country aPI
parently believe the uplift magazine
, and the cowardly members of congress
, who wrought such havoc today. Ihe'
said the speaker should not be mem
Der of the committee on rules, Wnch
they made over into committee OF ~
Much depends upon the makeup OF tns'
committee.
"May God bless and keep these mel
for, so far as I am concerned, He oni'
can bless them. Many so-called repuu
; licans are, in fact, populists, and az
trying to outdo Organism.