The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-03-23

Republican insurgents proceeded with
| defense of the course of the insur-
gents and scathing denunciation of
the regulars.
"The rules of this house give to the
speaker more power than is accorded
the presiding officers Of any other leg
islative body on EARTH" said Mr..
Cooper.
"He has the right to appoint all the
committees of the house, to name the
he himself presides over the most i'm
portant committeeman on rules
and on this floor he has the sole and
supreme right of reorganization of
members.
An extraordinary scene occurred
when Mr.. Cooper, giving individual in
| stances in which he declared men,
bers of the house had been punished
by the speaker by being refused i'm
| portant committee assignments, called
by name upon one after another of
his colleagues to testify as to the
treatment they had received at the
hands Of the speaker.
Washington, D. CATER being in
session thirty hours, the House ad-
joourned after one of the greatest par
liamentary struggles in it's history.
The result in nothing more nor less
than drawn battle.
When the final roll call came 1874
Republicans voted to postpone further
action on the Norris amendment and
$50 Democrats and insurgent Republic
cans voted to continue.
With the regular Republicans voted
IA of the insurgent following of Nor
ris, of Nebraska, who left him and
sided with the majority for a post
ponement.
Full Membership Present.
The house for the first time in the
present session had almost it's full
membership on the floor. When the
speakers gavel fell the members rose
YEARLY from their seats and filed out
through the aisles and in five minutes
the scene of the record-breaking en-
durance struggle was cleared of it's
400 principals. the. galleries were emp.
tied of the hundreds of spectators who
had occupied them constantly for near
ly 80 hours, and only score or so of
janitors moved about cleaning up the
evidence of the fray.
No such a series of scenes had been
witnessed in congress in recent years.
The performance embraced every
element, from the serio-tragic effort to
wrest from the speaker the chief
source of his power to the songs, jokes
and jests that the members banded
during the long hours of vigil.
The suggestion of a compromise by
the leaders of the Republican house or
ganization is regarded as confession
of defeat, and that Speaker Cannon is
to be shorn of his power in the house.
That Is the general opinion here of
the situation in the house of represen-
tative in the midst of the controversy
over the rules and the position of
Speaker Cannon.
There is a lull preliminary to pos
sible compromise between the Republi-
can organization of the house and the
insurgent minority of the party.
Through the entire contest MAORI.
ty of the Minnesota delegation has
stood on the various votes with the in
straightforward combination.
Nye Returns to Battlefield.
Representative Nye, OF Minneapolis.
was absent Thursday evening in Phila-
delphia, where he was making a pub
lie address, but he arrived in time to
aid the regular organization in effect
ing a postponement of the contes, I'M
til some compromise can be reached.
Representative STEVENSON, Miller
and Volstad also withdrew their sup
port from the superintendent com.
bination to aid in the movement of a
compromise adjustment.
The most conspicuous fact that has
stood out in the contest that has been
waging for the past sc hours is that
the insurgent addition to the numerical
strength of the Democrats is sufficient
to overthrow the Republican majority
and possibly to GUST the speaker from
the rules committee or even from the
speakership itself, if the united votes
of the Democrats and insurgents shall
be cast upon any of these propositions.
Another fact brought out by the pro-
longed contest is that the plan pro-
posed in the resolution offered by Rep.
resentative Norris of Nebraska, can
not command a majority of the house.
The efforts of the Republican lead
ers to secure compromise was d.
rected along the line of an election of
the committee on rules either by the
Republican caucus or by the house it.
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