Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-19
LAST NIGHTS RESPITE.
Insurgents Aid Regulars in Securing
Postponement-Iowa Hold Balance.

Postponement-iowan Hold Balance.
Washington, March 19.-After twen-
ty-seven hours of such a struggle in
the house of representatives over the
issue Of Cannonism as has not been
witnessed before in, this generation,
and probably not in the history Of the
republic. the fate OF Speaker Cannon
last night practically rests with GER
tain members of the Iowa delegation.
These members are Representatives
Good, Woods. Kendall, Pickett and
Dawson. If these members Of the house
stand firm and insist that a resolution
shall be passed providing that the
speaker of the house shall not be a
member Of the rules committee, this
question will be settled and settled for
all time in just one way, namely, it
will be decided that the speaker shall
not be a member Of this powerful and
influential committee.
At the same time, the rules commit
tee will be enlarged to ten or fifteen
members.
At twelve minutes before O'clock
last night the house of represent ntatives
adjourned until noon today, after one
of the greatest parliamentary struggles
in It's history. The result then was
nothing more nor less than drawn
battle. When the final roll call came
164 republicans voted to postpone fur
ther action on the Norris amendment
until today and $50 democrats and in
surgent republicans voted to continue.
With the regular republicans voted
fourteen of the insurgents following
Norris, of Nebraska, who left him and
sided with the majority for postpone-
ment. The result, they said. conveyed
no significance and meant anything
else than that they had deserted the
insurgent cause
The lull in the long battle came with
apparent welcome to both sides. aitho
there was not a cheer Of victory from
either. When the speaker put the mo-
ton to adjourn, a general chorus of
ayes came from the republican side.
The democrats made no protest and
there was no answer to the call for the
noes.
The house for the first time in the
present session had almost its full
membership on the floor. When the
speakers gavel fell the members rose
wearily from their seats and filed out
thru the Uttered aisles, and in five
minutes the scene Of the record break
ing endurance struggle was cleared Of
it's 400 principals, the galleries were
emptied of the hundreds Of spectators
who have occupied them constantly. for
nearly thirty hours, and only score
of janitors moved about cleaning up
the evidences of the fray.
Biggest Fight in Years.
NO such series of scenes have been
witnessed in a congress in recent years.
.I,ne performance embraced every eie-
ment from the io-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. Always there
two opposing sides, over which they
fought and wrangled fercely,, but for
hours at time the scene took on the
aspect Of a comic opera and laughter
and applause ruled the house.
What Of the result? The unusual
and almost iaexplicable ending caused
a thousand questions as to the meaning
of the armistice. Did 1t mean that The,
regulars had won over enough of the
insurgents to obtain truce in the fight
and time enough to rally their forces
and form some new plan of action?
Or were both sides weary and worn
to the limit of physical exhaustion and
glad Of an opportunity to defer the
final struggle for few hours and give
all g chance to freshen themselves for
1t?
"we have lost nothing" said Repre-
sentative Norris This postponement
means not thing more than that
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