Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1910-03-26
TO CUT DOWN
SPEAEER'SPOWER
House Ants Plan TO Elect
All Committees.
CANNON'S LAST TERM IN CHAIR
Changes In Rules Not to Come This
Session, II Is Said-Will Elect New
Committee In Ten Days.

Committee In Ten Days.
TIE success OF the house insurgents
in ousting Speaker Cannon from the
committee on rules will be followed
b. an attemptto take from him the
power To name committees.
This Will not be done this session
or In this congress In all probability
II II likely no further attempt will be
made to change the rules this session
But when the next house Is organized.
then II is probable that the great
work which was begun in the last
few days will be completed by pro-
vision In the rules that the house
shall elect its own committees as the
senate does now. Until that IL done
the speaker will have more authority
than large share OF the house mem
bers believe he can be safely entrust.
ed with.
Having passed the Norris resolution
enlarging the rules committee and re-
moving Speaker Cannon from It. the
next thing for the house TO do is to
pick the new rules committee. That
body has been composed OF Speaker
Cannon. Representative Dalzell and
Representative w. |. Smith. Repubi
cans. and Champ Clark and Fitzger-
aid. Democrats. II will now consist Of
six Republicans and four Democrats.
and Mr.. Cannon will not be one Of the
Republicans.
Under the resolution of Mr.. Norris
the election must be in the next ten
days. II is expected the Republicans
will caucus to select their six men,
hers. and that the Democrats will cau
rus to pick their four The probabili-
ties are that the regulars will control
the situation as to the caucus so
completely that not an insurgent will
be put on the rules committee. thouPh
for the sake OF inducing party har-
mony some concessions may be made.
Representative John Dalzell OF
Pennsylvania. one of the high priests
OF the Republican organization in the
house. n man unrelenting In his bitter
antagonism to the progressive wing OF
his party. has long been Identified with
the rules committee. Almost ms much
as Cannon himself. he typifies In the
eyes OF the country the tyranny exer-
clsed through a long series Of years
by the committee on rules. The house
regulars would go far to smooth things
over In the house and satisfy the sen.
tlment In the country against control
fthe house by a small element II
Daizell were kept of the new rules
committee. but there Is no sign thus
far that anything of this kind will he
done.
II Is probable Dalzell and Smith will
be kept on. and that such powerful
chairmen OF committees as Tawney,
Payne. Weeks OF Massachusetts. and
Mann. of Illinois. will be added on the
Republican side. While these men.
and others aligned with them. who
are possibilities. are Cannon men. II
would he. impossible for them to run
the rules committee with the high
hand II has been run in the past.
The first battle against the system
that has so long dominated the house
has been Taught and the system has
lost. II is n forerunner OF other bat.
tles by those who believe the house
should he the truly representative
body that the fathers Of the republic
contemplated. Not only has the Can.
non organization been shattered. but
the whole organization OF which 10.
saph G. Cannon Is the head In the
honse and Nelson W. Aldrich Is the
head In the senate has been Jared.
Not yet & the end In sight OF re-
volt against rule OF the house by a
small coterie OF powerful politicians
But a tremendous step In advance has
been taken since the outbreak Of the
Democrats and insurgents last Thurs.
day afternoon against the speaker.
These are he chief things that have
been accomplished:
BY 1871 to 1855 the house adopted the
amended Norris resolution. which de-
poses the speaker from the rules com
mIttee and cnlarges that committee to
ten.
Speaker Cannon has been ide an
absolute impossibllitv for RS ction
to the position OF speaker OF III. $50
after this congress. despite the
that the house on Saturday. By vote
Of 1877 10 1855. refused to throw him
out OF Office.