The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1910-03-22
Down BUT NOTOUT
Cannon. 0usted From Com.
mittee. RemainSSp Speaker.
he CANNOT BE REFLECTED
House Antis Plan 70 Take Power &c
Appoint Committees From the
Speaker al the Next Ses-
sion Of Congress

SAW " WI aSs
Washington March 2l.-With Can
non ordered from the committee on
rules In the rebellion of insurgents.
the next step in house reform prob
ably will be TO take from the speaker
the power TO name committees.
This will not be done this session
or in this congress in all probability.
II is likely no further attempt will be
made to change the rules this session.
But when the next house is organized.
then it is probable that the great
work which was begun in the last
few days will be completed by q pro
vision in the rules that the house
shall elect its own committees as the
senate does now. Until that is done
the speaker will have more authority
than a large share OF the house mem
bers believe he can be safely entrust-
ed with.
Having passed the Norris resolution
enlarging the rules committee ard re-
moving Speaker Cannon from II. the
NEXT thing for the house 10 do is 10
pick the new rules committee That
body has been composed OF Speaker
Cannon Representative Dalzell and
Representative W. l. Smith. Republi-
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
election In Ten Days.
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 mem.
bers. and that the Democrats will eau.
Gus 10 pick their four The probabili.
ties are that the regulars will control
the situation as 10 the caucus SC
completely that not an iRsurgent will
be put on The rules committee. though
for the SAX OF iniucing party har
mony some ccnccss' ne may be made
Representative John D1lzen OF
PeNnsy ivania one OF tho high priests
Of the Republican crs2l ian ion IN the
house. man uprelenting in his bitter
aptagonisIu to the progress i've wing OF
his party. has long been identified with
the rules committee Almost as much
as Cannon himself he tvpifes in TIE
eyes of the country the tyranny exer
cised 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
timent in the country against control
o fthe house by a small element II
Dalzell We're kept on the new rules
committee But there is no sign thus
far that ANYTHING OF this kind will be
done.
Oalzeli TO Be Named
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. {,
would be 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 fought and the system has
lost II is a forerunner OF other bat
ties by those who believe the house
should be the truly representative
hGNAt the fathers OF the republic
contemplated. DOT only has the Can
nol organization been shattered. but
the whole organization OF whl6h- -
sepk G. Cannon IL the head in the
house and Nelson W Aldrich is the
head in the senate has been Jared.
Not yet is the end IN sight of re-
volt against rule OF the house By a
small coterie OF powerful politicians.
But tremendous step IN advance has
been taken since the outbreak OF the
day afternoon against the speaker.
These are the chief things that have
been accomplished.
BY 1917 to l55 the house adopted the
amended Norris resolution. which de.
poses the speaker from the rules com.
mittee and enlarges that committee 10
ten
Speaker Cannon has been made an
absolute impossibility for reelection
~ NAN RtaANtRas VI ~ anti VI tlf MUSE
after this congress. despite the fact
that the house on Saturday by vote
OF 1871 TO 1855. refused 10 throw him
out of Office
II has been shown beyond peradven.
ture that the rules can be amended
that there is point beyond which
the rights OF house members cannot
with IMMUNITY he trampled on. and
that the rules of the house are some
thing bigger and broader than parti
sanship.
The loss of control OF the house b.
the regular organization as 10 rules
means that it has lost control for thi.
session of the legislative situation and
cannot dictate what legislation shall
pass and what shall not
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