The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-19

At twelve minutes before five this
afternoon the house adjourned until
noon tomorrow, after one of the great
est parliamentary struggles in its his
tory. The result is nothing more or
less than a drawn battle. On final
roll call one hundred and sixty-four
Republicans voted to postpone further
action and $50 Democrats and In
surgents voted to continue. With the
regular Republicans voted fourteen in
surgents. The result they say con-
veyed no significance and does not
mean that they deserted the insurgent
cause. The lull in the long battle was
apparently welcomed by both sides,
although there was not a cheer of vic.
tory from either. The house for the
first time of the present session had
almost full membership on the floor
when it adjourned.
Representative Champ Clark said:
When the final vote is taken, it will
show that the other side of the house
Is licked
Representative Underwood said that
the Democrats voted against recess be
cause they considered that the fight
was won and that no compromise was
necessary. Even the regulars did not
claim victory.
Immediately after the recess the in
surgents convened in Representative
Gardner's room for further eonsid.
eratioH Of the Compromises. Several of
the most radical stated that they might
not attend the conference.
The insurgents who voted with the
regulars for recess were Representa-
tives Kendall. Pickett and Woods, ot
Inxuas KinCoi6 nf 10
Volstead of Minnesota. and Parsons
Fish and Foelker of New York.
Representative Norris, leader of the
insurgents, said these insurgents haC
been released from their pledges ano
allowed to vote for recess.
ON,POiNT OF DEFEAT.
In the early hours of the day the in
dications we're that Speaker Cannon
and the regular" organization were
on the point of a. decisive defeat al
the hands of the Republican insurgents
and Democrats who late yesterday af
ternoon and all night last night pound
ed the regular" position relentlessly
defeating the organization upon every
issue upon which there was vote.
1t was an oDen secret early today
that the regulars" believed they We're
beaten, that it was their plan to give
the speaker until IL o'clock to rule
upon the point of order upon which
the attack was centered and that only
a forlorn hope of some kind could be
relied upon to save the situation.
The regulars" in fact, took to the
woods" after several attempts to OBJ
tain recess had failed. The late
hours of the night were spent in angry
efforts on the part of the Democrats
to find out by the sergeant-at-arms was
bringing in none of the Republican alb
sentees whom he had been ordered tC
haul before the bar of the house. H.
did bring in five Democrats.
Mr.. Clayton of Alabama expressed
considerable surprise that so much
pains and expense for carriages and
! automobiles should result in nothing
but some early morning joy rides or
the part of the employees of the
house."
A HOT FIGHT.
1t was a memorable fight which day
light found in progress in the house
In a stubborn filibuster on the part OF
Speaker Cannon and the house organ
Ization, an equally relentless attack on
the part of the "allies"-these were
the distinguishing features in the hot
test fight that yet has been made to
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