The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30
AFT PUTS BRAKES
N|N5URGENT MOVE
pes Not Favor Present Fight
; to Gust Cannon From
Speakership.
KS LEGISLATION FIRST
e Makes 1t Clear That Party
Should Harmonic and
] Get to Work.
SKIS LEGISLATION FIRST
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l-esident Taft has put the brakes on
lie insurgent movement TO take
,eaker Cannon from the COMMITTEES
d Rules. He told Judge Goebel and
scbolas Longworth, OF the Ohio dele
ition, that he thought all agitation
ir changes In rules should cease un-
4 the legislation to which the party
Iood committed shall have been
issed.
tThe President made 1t clear that he
tould insist on the passage OF laws
4. had recommended. After this work
rs been done by the House. the Pres
'ent is said to have declared. he had
- objections to discussion over
,!anges in the House rules.
Fnvors Some Changes.
Friends of the President assert that
y. inc1ines TO the wisdom OF making
bme changes. but has not committed
,imself to the plan OF enlargement OF
lie committee and the ineiigibility of
he Speaker to serve on it. The In
iirgents, under Hayes, Of California,
IRE working for an immediate change
- the rules. along the lines OF the
owler resolution, enarging the COM
L.ttee from five to nine or fifteen
luS INV LASihSS's ~ -
,lected By the House. 1t is believed
MS committee would be representa-
I've of the House for the majority
n Many regulars have lined UP with
EIr. Hayes, and it seems possible that
ONE change is to be made. The regu-
E4rs say the Committee on Rules must
ave its chairman, and they assert
ght in a new committee over its
Hartman would disrupt It, and cause
onfusion and discord. The Speaker,
IS head of the House majority, should
Re chairman of the committee, which
5 charged with responsibility for en-
otment OF party legislative policies.
20 restrict the power Of the Speaker
0 as to make him only parliamen-
airy presiding officer. will require &
general revision OF the rules that will
AXE weeks OF consideration 10 per-
Get
Receiving Comfort.
The insurgents arc receiving conf
'ort in their fight against Cannon.
Republican organizations in dissatis-
led sections of the country are adopt
ng resolutions of commentator and
forwarding them to the insurgents. 1t
s significant that these resolutions
zllude to Cannon and Aldrieh as rep
resentatives OF "the interests" Re-
publican leaders are pointing to the
fact that these resolutions by impli-
ration attack President Taft and the
Republican party.
The President has defended Aldrich
and the Republican party organization
and appealed to all Republioans to
harmonic
a sample of the resolutions being
sent in came to Representative Davis
70. @,n, Ja,sr nd
! is: At a meeting Of the Central Re-
publican Committee of Hudson coun-
ty, held on January 90. at Jersey City,
n J., the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
''Rcsolved. That this committee
heartily indorses the action OF the
members of Congress who are making
such a valiant fight against CannonisnJ
and Aldrichism. and that we express
to them our hope that this light viii
contiRGe until the influence OF the spe-
c'al interests is entirely destroyed.
(Signed1 Ts.tFRANR. j. HIGGINS,
"'Secretary'