Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-03-26
AFTERMATH OF STRUGGLE.
AL Parties Now Accuse the Other of
Effect


Washington, March 21.-The titanic
struggle over the speakership of the
house of representatives, which reached
its climax late Saturday in the destruc-
ton of the speaker IS power in the COM
mittee on rules, yet leaving Mr.. Cannon
not so much the ending of three days
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 momentous
battle represents a satisfactory condi
ton. The speaker and his friends APP
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 a 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.
The republican regulars complacentlY
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 contemptuously
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 convic-
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
Is per cent slough from the republi-
can party. They destroyed the commit
tee on rules. Then what did they do7
A resolution was presented declaring
the Office of speaker vacant.
"Then what did these men who have
been denouncing my personality, these
simon-pure followers of Cummins and
La Toilette, do then7 Only eight of
them had the courage of their convic-
tions. The result was that, while l was
> elected speaker by majority of 26 last
9 March, they refused to turn me out by
9 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 biblical
example, Let there be light and there
: was light.
"You in Washington know different
ly. But the people in the country ap-
parently believe the uplift magazines
. and the cowardly members of congress
> who wrought such havoc today. They
: said the speaker should not be a mem
Der of the committee on rules, which
- they made over into a committee of 10
Much depends upon the makeup of that
committee.
n "May God bless and keep these men
for, so far as L am concerned, He only
IS can bless them. Many so-called repub
# licans are, in fact, populists, and are
d trying to Guido Organism"
n ENGINE SOMERSAULTS