Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-19
THE FIGHT IN THE HOUSE.

the victOrit III insuFgeL u and deGctriss
Yesterday evening agreed 10 allow the
Htuse ID adjourn until today In order t1
arrange o compromise.
After nearly 80 hours OF constant coz
Act g truce was declared LIST, In the Of
ternooo, and at 4.4S O'Clock the House
adj urned until IL O'Clock today.
The armlstice vas sought BY the re-
gular republicans. They practically
acknowledged their defeat. They realized
that they must corssnt to immediate
amendment of the rules. But they hoped
to bring this about In q manner thst will
not split the republican party vide open
aud turn The control OF the House oVei
to tae democrats and insurgents.
The main point Of disagreement wai
over tae composition Of the new commit.
tee on rules. The insurgents and demo
Gratis insisted thst the speaker shall moi
be a member OF the committee. Nj.
Cannon refused to be eliminated, and L.
sisted that he shall be member OF any
rules committee thst is created.
The indies lions yesterday evening were
that a new committee on rules will be
created, prehsps along !heslines OF The
Norris resolution; that Mr.. Cannon will
be excluded from the committee, and
that be must accept bis defeat with a.
good grace az he can.
II the issus could have been brought
to O vote al any time Thursday night or
yesterday, Mr.. Cannon and his organl-
zstIon would have been knocked ont 8.
a blow. Ever since Wednesday after
noon, when Representative Norris, the
insurgent from Nebrssks, sprung bis
resolu,Ion to create a new committee on
rules and strip the speaker OF his power,
MIR. Cannon and his followers he'd sim
ply been fighting to gain time, 10 the
nope that they could rally enough "reg'
ulars" to stem the tide or by some par
lismentsry trick prevent dsfest.
Asttsted In the Gazette the House a
2 O'Clock yesterday decided to recess fol
two hours for q parliamentary confer
encf.
The afternoon conference was without
definite result beyond tentative agree.
ment that II an armlstlce could be ar.
ranged until tomorrow the republicans
might reach q compromise among them
selves.
Alta O'Clock the HcuIe met for an
other htu', but nothing was disclosed ss
10 the negotiations.
Speaker Cannon said be was ready t,
rule on the point OF order raised at the
beginning of hostil.tlss on Thursday,
and some of tie iusnrgents we're anxious
to have the matter settled of1hsnd, bul
enough insu gents j,ined with the regu.
lsrs to postpone acton uotiI 1905
o'clock today, BY which time they hope
to be able to effect compromise that
will save the speaker from personal hu'
milistlon.
When the 6nal vote came In tbt
meeting to ADJOURN till t>dsy 164 re
pubIicaps vCt,d to pTtpone further
action on the resolution offered BY Rep
reseutative Norris until tomorrow, anC
100 democrats and intu'gsnt repub
Ilcans voted TO continue. With thu
regular republicans voted fourteen o
The lntu gent following Of Mr.. Norris, o
Nebrsska, who left him and sided will
the msjlrity for postpouement. Thu
result, they said, conveyed no slgnifi
canoe, aud meant sn5thicg else than ths
thy had deserted the in'urgents.
II was said last night that Spsskei
Cannon, Il the democrats and reprbll
csn insurgents succeeded today 10 lhsil
plans to change The procedure by Great
10 uew committee on rules, will holC
that the democrats have obtained con
troll OF the House, and that he election
Of the new speaker should logically
follow.
1t Is also said that had he made hi
uIirg yesterday upholding the poin
Of order against the Norris resolution
for a new committee, as he was pre-
pared to do, aud had been ovsrruled, 81
be expected to be, tender Of his fesig
nation dout tess would have followed
L! was this ont.ngency that confronted
me Insurgents on the brink and movsC
them to assent to postpOuement, ID
the hope OF q compromise that would
reach t7e deslred end and avert com
plets reorganization.
CANNON OYERRULED.
AZ three minutes to IL, this morning
tho conierere, between the regulsrs Aur
insurgents broke up Wlthcui any COM
promise having been reached. IL VA
anrou lced By both sides that the fight
Is on 10 the 6nish aud that the Is
sue will be brought to an end by al oul
and cui battle on the door OF the House
~ neoD.
The insurgents withdrew to the COM
laIttee room OF Mr.. Gardner, where they
tried to reach an agreement OF what they
will demand.
The failure of this MORNINGS con-
ference was brought about by the abso.
;u'e refusal OF Speaker Cannon to agree
b. get of the committee on rules, even
though he was not formally ousted.
1--WE will win the ba tie without a
doubt" said Mr.. Learoo! Up, Wis.
after be emerged from the conference,
"snd the oulY question now Is whai
T,m the victory will take. 1t Is Ger
tiin at any rate, that the speaker will be
taken of the committee On rules. The
question that we Insurgents will meet to
settle are only mInor issues IS to the
form Of our resolution"
The rsgusrI were much disappointed
over the failure to compromise when
they csme out OF the committee room
they looked as though they had been
awake for q week.
After the confer NE fsil9T, MesIs