The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-19

s.suxuurzzzuuzrzsnznz l the House and the elimination of the | speaker Friends of the speaker let it be | known that he did not relish such com promise.
 The insurgent agents declared that the | elimination of the speaker from the pro posed committee was the main plank
 in their platform, and that the matter | could not be compromised on party | basis in any other manner. While no | agreement was reached some of those at | tending the conference felt that a com | promise could be reached over night, and with that in view those present hurried | back to the floor of the House at the con- | cusion of the recess at o'clock. Cannon Announces Ready After rapping for order Speaker Cannon declared:' "The chair is ready to make his ruling on the point of order" Repre- sentative Tawney moved at once for a recess until 11:55 o'clock tomorrow morn ing MT. Bartlett of Georgia raised the point of order that it was not in order to move for a recess after the chair had announced a determination to give the long-waited ruling.
 Speaker Cannon read the book of rules and decided that d motion for recess was not privileged in the face of de- mana TOT the regular OfueI. MI- IdWicy dissented, but Speaker Cannon replied that the kind of motion MT. Tawney wished to make .has not been privileged since 1S90." Mir. Tawney then wanted to know whether, if an order for adjourn ment until noon tomorrow were carried. the pending question would stlll be the pending question at noon tomorrow.
 After consulting the House parlimen- tartan. MT. Cannon held that in the opin- inn of tIa chair if an adiOurnmeQt were taken until tomorrow that the pending point of order would come up when the House then meets. Mir. Gaines of West Virginia thereupon moved that the an nouncement of Speaker Cannon's ruling be postponed until 12:05 o'clock tomorrow
 MT. Underwood of Alabama moved, by way of substitute. that the speaker be re- quired to deliver his ruling immediately
 He charged MT. Gaines with dilatoriness Representative Clayton of Alabama in quired whether the adoption of the motion to postpone the announcement of the speakers ruling would carry along with 1t the Norris resolution itself.
 That's a conundrum," replied Mir Can non. 'grhe chair will not attempt to an- swer The chair has already announced that he Is now ready to rule unless the House desires otherwise. The chair will entertain a motion to table the motion to postpone the announcement of the chairs ruling on the pending point of order.'
 Motion By Norris
 MT Norris, author of the main resolu- tion which precipitated the present fight over the rules, moved as substitute that the speaker be required to make his ruling now" MT. Cannon ruled that this substitute was out of order as the chair was ready to rule any time the House would permit. The Hughes motion to postpone the announcement of the speakers decision respecting the Norris resolution was then renewed and carried on roll call by vote of 161 to 15l, with F voting absent.
 On this ballot 10 insurgents voted with the regulars in favor of postponement They were Messrs Davidson of Wiscon- sin, Fish of New York, Gardner of Mas sachusetts. Kendall, Piclet and Woods of Iowa. Hayes of California, Kinkaid of Nebraska Steenerson and Volstead of Minnesota. Accordingly the speaker will not deliver his ruling until noon tomor- row.
 The fact that 10 insurgents saw fit to vote with the regulars in favor of this postponement was rather disappointing to many of the democrats, who were aware that but for this temporary shifting of part of the irsurgent strength the motion to postpone the announcement from the speaker could never have prevailed. They knew that the insurgents could deliver 3S votes against the Cannon regime any time they cared to ballot as a unit and were hopeful of administering stinging de- feat to Speaker Cannon before the close of the afternoon.
 House Adjourns
 | After the House agreed to this post | ponement it adjourned at o'clock, 29 | hours after the opening of the session of | the legislative day of yesterday. | These insurgents who by their votes en- abled the majority to postpone the ruling of the speaker until tomorrow explained afterward that this vote could not be considered test of strength or taken as | a criterion of what may happen tomor- | row.
 l Representative Fish and other leaders | of the insurgents said that their sole ob- l ject in voting in favor of postponement Of action until tomorrow is to afford the republicans, insurgents and regulars, an | opportunity of coming together with a compromise within their own ranks. The overtures for this compromise came from the regulars and whie-opinion among the l insurgents was divided at the time the House adjourned over, the advisability of accepting q truce most of them voiced the belief that if such compromise | fected they would not be loyal repubi- | cans if they failed to ascertain upon what
 basis party harmony might be restored, even if only temporarily.
 We have B votes said Representative | Fish tonight q hope we can come to an agreement with the regulars for an | amendment of the rules along the general
 lines suggested by MT. Norris. I am not | particular over the details of the resolu-
 ton so long as the object we seek Is no'
 thwarted, that of not having any speak CT represented on the proposed new rules
 committee. If we cannot reach an agree
 inent. the fight will be resumed 10 m ish. Should the speaker declare the NOT ris resolution not in order. we Will ap-
 peal from the decision. carry the appea
 and adopt the Norris resolution. we ano
 the democrats have votes enough to de
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