Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-20
associated Press1
ASSOCIATED Press1
WASHINGTON, March 10.
w Joseph Guerney Cannon
of DanNille LII is cti1l

w Joseph Guerney Cannon
' of Danville, ILL.,, is still
speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives.
But he lost today the ancient
prestige and weapon of that office
when the allied Republican in
surgents and Democrats took
from him not only the chairman
ship of, but even membership in,
the all-Powerful committee on
rules, the chief asset in his stock
of power.
Amid scenes of widest dis
order, for the like of which one
must go back to the exciting days
Just prior to the Civil War-per-
haps even those times might not
duplicate 1.-THE veteran speaker,
almost "A years old, stood erect
and defiant, his head bloody but
unbowed.'
AT the end, when big Texas
Democrat accepted the speakers
daring challenge and introduced
resolution to fling him out of the
speakership, the Republican reg
ulars and insurgents, with few
exceptions, rallied with almost
unbroken party front and gave
him vote which almost offset
the "repudiation of Cannonism.
This is what happened:
Shorn of Power by Combine
BY a. vote of 191 to 155, the Repub-
lican insurgents voting solidly with the
Democrats, the house adopted the
resolution of Representative Norris,
Republican of Nebraska, requiring a
reorganization of the rules commit
tee, increasing it's membership from
FIVE to ter. and declaring the speaker
ineligible to membership thereon.
By the curiously identical vote of 191
to 155-but with a decidedly different
personnel of alignment-the house de-
feated a resolution of Representative
Burleson of Texas, declaring the
speakership vacant and ordering the
immediate election of a successor to
Mr. Cannon.
The Norris resolution was as follows:
"There shall be a committee on
rules elected by the house (hitherto the
committee of five, like all other house
committees, has been appointed by the
speaker) consisting of ten members.
six of whom shall be members of the
majority party The speaker shall not
be a member of the committee, and
the committee shall elect its own
chairman from its own members.
Resolved further, that within ten
days after the adoption of this reso-
luton, there shall be an election of
this committee and Immediately upon
its election, the present committee on
rules shall be dissolved
Representative Burleson's resolution
follows:
Resolved that the office of speaker
of the house of representatives is
hereby declared to be vacant and the
house of representatives shall proceed
to the election of a speaker"
Cannon Declines to Comment
Speaker Cannon declined tonight to
comment on the extraordinary events
of the day. He was in his office sur
rounded by three or four loyal friends
when a newspaper man approached
him, and asked him what he had to
say about his victory"
"Oh, nothing at all, I guess. There
is not any comment for me to make.
Besides, you will have your papers
full in the morning anyway, and you
don't need any comment from me-"
But hasn't the newly elected speak
er any announcement to make of his
future policy?"
The speaker laughed.
'Ill just keep on speaking and pray
ing" he said.
Champ Clark, minority leader in the
house, said in the course of an oral
statement issued tonight:
"The Republicans are on the tobog-
gan slide, and if Democrats outside of
congress will get together as the Dem
ocrats in the house have gotten togeth-
er our victories this year and in 1912
will be as sweeping as those of 1890
and 1892"
Mr.. Norris of Nebraska said in part;
1--WE have won all that we fought
for all that we expected to get when
we went into the last movement that
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