The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-01
SPEAKER DEFINES CANTONESE
ITS 30 YEARS or WORK VITAL
IZING REPUBLICIN Policies.
Incle N Defends ihe TaFiR. WhaCks the
Insurgents. Explains FGss's Election
snd Gives GOy. Guild = WailoD On ills
white MOuntala Reserve scheme.

Insurgents. Explains FSss's Election
snd Gives Goy. Guild = Wailop On iils
white Mountaia Reserve scheme.
BosroS. April O.-Uncle Joe Cannon.
Speaker Of the House. blew into town
bright and early this morning and yielded
gracefully 10 a superior force when a
squad Of newspaper reporters held him
up at the hotel for an interview.
A series % questions was put 20 the
Speaker by one Joe Cannon. q reporter.
and the Speaker answered them.
Mr. Speaker. What i your definition Of
i Cannonismy
Ny name is Cannon. This Is my Eigh-
tenth Congress. and On the ath ~ March
next will have completed thiriy-siK years
OF service without a break. save along IN
the Fitty-second Congress. Then In q
fighting district was defeated by 100 votes
| on account Of having assisted Mr.. speaker
Reed In tablishing the principle that a
ina iOrity Of the House could not h. present
for mischief and absent for business
Mr. Reed vas denounced az Car more
bitterly than have been denounced. and
yet Mr. Reed would have been pOwerles-
TO work out this parliamentary reform
without having constantly With him vote
Of the majority Of the peoples representa-
tiNes
! A.. Speaker Of the House OF Representa-
| tives | have cooperat.d with the Brpubli-
can majority In vitalizing and maintaining
/ the Republican policies. and this too when
tho minority was demanding To control the
majority
! There is no action and never has been
any action OF the speaker of the national
/ House Of Representatives. and never viii
I b. a. long a. We keep our form OF Govern
men,. that amounts to as much us the
blank paper upon which Il Is written eye
Cspt a. q i made vital by a majority "
the people Representatives.
Our friends the enemy cry Cannonism
one minute and then boast nat they hav"
! destroyed Car Cannon They did take
! Car cannon on the Committee On Rules ami
made new Committee on Rules with exactly
the same power that the old committee had
IN reporting resolutions or bills referred
20 that committee 20 the House for its coz
sidera'ion Having bv q combination Of
so-caled progressive Republicans and a
solid minority, taken the speaker from the
COMMITTEES on Rules they stopped short Of
declarinR vacancy IN the Speakefship
Why did the insurgents refuse to vote 10
declare the Chair vacant
That j. matter of opinion lndIscu-sing
the present situation In the House ! DO %
from an entirely imperronal standpoint
The followers OF Mr. La Toilette did vote
to declare the Speakershlp vacant. The
followers Of other sO-called progressive
Republicans did not vote
You ask WHY. would have 20 enter into
the domain ofspeculation. Nv own opinion
h that u a small minority Of the majority
mad united with the Democratic minority
aud voted o declare the Speakership vacant
they. the new majority. would have had the
espnnsiDility Of eIeCting a Speaker. aad
unless their minority had had the DISPOSE
ton TO be controlled hy the Democratic
| minority with whom they acted and elected
Mr. champ CLARK speaker. then In ny
Judgment there v ould have been no speaker
elected
The legislation Of this session would have
ended with a resolution Of ten lines con-
unuing the appropriations for another
I year and the country, y Ould have AZ once
| been Informed Of what u does not nov
know. that there - no reliable Republican
majority IN the national House Of Repre-
sentatiyes The country would have held
| the new power responsible and there would
have been elected 10 the next Congress
a real Republican majority and the cam
paign would have been all over except the
shouting.
Realizing What the buzz Jaw would do
they failed 20 march up 70 what they pro-
fe-sed sud 20 the consequences Of their
! profession 30 the wicked Gar Cannon
still prrsides over the deliberations Of the
greatest legislative body on earth.
did not resign the speakrrshp because
the confusion that would have come would
nave D-vn CHARGED 90 INV aciion and that
Of the reg liar Republicans. For reasons
I have before stated / should have vel
coined vacancy In the Speakership caused
by the combination 81 the minority u The
majority cooperating WIth the Democratic
minority. thus creating a new alliance.
What IL your definition 81 an insurgent2
An editor Who demands free speech
ct the press banquet and has the police
called 10 10 suppress him.
NJ Speaker. DO you believe IN the con-
servation of our natural resources
les. aud am not d new convert. vas
one Of the eylngelz % conservation In
congress who secured the enactment u
law Withdrawing ull The arid lands from
entry In Ises
Rut how about the oon.sryatIo Of the
Fast th. White Mountain reserve
That h another experiment, suspect.
but ~ one Representative ! had enough
confidence m Representative Work 10
cooperate with him 10 Vrtting biz bill con
sidared in tho House ta0 wears ago and the
bill passed the HOuz" u th" senate had
passed that bill YOU would now have IN"
White Mountain reserve begun but whether
such a reserve Will prevent floods and
drOugnts In the future - one Of the qurs-
tons Of which the authorities do not agree
Two years ago YOU had a severe drought
in New England. iIst a. ~ had 20 th" West
but your Distinguished Gov Guild held me
r@sponsible and laid u all 10 Cannon ! l
confess / felt pretty badly about the Gov
ernor's aTraisnmeut until read the Brad
ford history Of Plymouth plantation and
di.coysrsd that the worst drought ever
erusrienced in Massachusetts, was in 1923
the second Summer after The landing Of the
PILGRIMS and before they had cleared away
any Of the primeyal forests
II AM not mistaken Gov Bradford ar
tributsd tho drought 20 ~" disDlsa-ure
Of the Almighty. aud in hi- history he says
that the Pilgrims appointed . day 81 fasting
ans prayer. after which the RAN came with
out any thunder OF sind ! commend the
Bradford history 20 Gov Guild
MISSING GILMORE JlFFF.