The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-08
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INSURGENTS GLOAT
 OVER WALLOPING GIVEN JOE CANNON
Especial from United Press.)

Washington. Jan. 8.-Hugging them selves with glee over the walloping they gave the Cannon organization, the House insurgents are today preparing for the next encounter.
 IF told you we'd get him before the session was much older. We can Victor Murdock, chief of the insur- gents, member from Kansas. Nearly all of them are echoing T told you so," and nearly all of them are protesting that they are just as loyal as ever to President Taft and the party-when Taft and the party are right.
 Speaker Cannon lost temporary hold of his reins and whip in the adoption last night of an amendment to the Jones' Humphrey joint resolution. of- fered by Representative Norris of Me- braska. which gave the House instead of Uncle Joe'' the power to select the six Representatives who will serve form the committee which will inves- tigate the Ballinger -Pinchot squabble.
 We were off our guard for a few minutes. that's how it came to hap pen," said one. eff we could have postponed the thing for a little while We would have had plenty of votes in the chamber to defeat the insurgents. Of course it was unexrected. If it had not been unexpected 1t would not have happened. Neither is 1t very pleasant for the Speaker. but he is good loser and you'll not hear him hummins up weep. If the personal equation had not entered into the mat ter two men would not have voted with the opposition and the vote would have stood 148 against 147 and the Norris amendment would have been lost.''
 Tt is just that personal equation which the Cannon people so lightly dis Speaker every once in while this ses- sion and will finally cause his retire ment from public fife" said one of the insurgents. "The Speaker has made so many enemies by his arbitrary rul- ings and his riding rough-shod over individual members that scores of them are waiting. for an excuse to jump up and swat him. They can only do .his when some matter, like the Ballinger-Pinchot affair comes up and they are able to prove their fealty to the administration and at the same time rap the Speaker and his rules. Every one of the Republican insur- gents voted to pass the resolution of investigation and the Cannon crowd will find it difficult to convince anyone that in voting against them we Op- posed the administration.''
 Representative Dwight, the Republi- can whip of the House. is coming in for large share of blame for the Cannon defeat. Had he been "up to snuff, some of the Speakers friends gre saying, he would have gotten to the fact that trouble was brewing. He would have seen the gathering of the Democrats in their seats and in the cleak rooms and would have had suf- ficient number of organization repre- sentatives in reach to defeat the oppo- sition.
 For the next few days Dwight will probably wish ttat some other fellow was the whip" It is not claimed by even the most rabid insurgents that the defeat of the Speaker yesterday necessarily endan ITS his job during the present Congrt 5.
 It shows that the insurgents now have a tentative hold on the balance of power and that by combining with the Democrats they can come pretty nearly defeating the Speaker any time they want to. unless the matter up for consideration is purely a party ques- tiOn