The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21


Whip of the House.
clare the chair of the speaker vacant.
Forty-three Republican insurgents
voted for the new rule. Only nine
went on record to GUST the speaker.
After five hours of turbulent and re-
lentless onslaughts, which the COM
bined insurgents and Democrats leo
with invariable success against MI.
Cannon and the standpatters. and af-
ter the complete downfall of the
speakers dictatorial power, the finale
was dramatic in the extreme Uncle
Joe" confessing his defeat, read
statement in which he defended his
course contended that he had done
no political wrong and offered to en-
terrain a motion to declare the chair
vacant and the election of a successor
in order
Cannon Wins at Last.
In accordance with a prearranged
plan known to the speakers friends,
Mr. BurleSon, a Texas Democrat, Of
fered the resolution. and amid scenes
ed over the gave1 to Representative
Payne and retired to his room to
await the outcome. The Democrats
voted solidly to depose the speaker,
while all the regulars and most of the
insurgents voted against it.
The nine insurgents who voted to
Gust the speaker from the chair were:
Cary (Wis). Lenroot CWis): Nelson
I ,,
(Minn.), Poindexter CWash.), Davis
(Minn.), Murdoch (Kan.), Gronna
IN. ID.
with the announcement of the vote
of personal confidence in "Unc1e Joe,
a wild whoop went I'D from the floor
and swept the galleries. When the
speaker reappeared from his room
and resumed the gavel the enthusi-
asm grew. The members on the Re-
publican side to a man were on their
feet yelling, dancing about in the
aisles. excited1y shaking hands with
one another. and in other ways giving
vent to their joy in the reunion of the
factions IN this tribute of respect and
affection for the Danville sage.
The galleries. largely filled with
gayly CARRIED women, were all a-f1utter
with handkerchiefs.
Mr. Cannon looked upon this scene
with a solemn and unmoved counte-
nance. Three Republican members
went weaving their way down the
crowed aisle. waving aloft a huge
American flag. and the members pro-
ceeded to go into another series of
1ubilant antics.
At this moment came the motion to |
adjourn. which the speaker banged !
home with his new gaVel. Then he |
stepped down from the rostrum fairly |
into the arms Of in upsurging crowd of |
Republicans, standpatters, and insur- |
gents alike, who troored forward to
wiring his hand
There were Tawney and Payne and |
Dalzell and Ill the rest of the Cannon |
"o1d guard" who showered congratuia- |
tions on the uphill fight the Illinoisan |
had made Then there were Hayes of |
California, Madison of Kansas and |
Norris of Nebraska, whose resolution |
brought on the revolution, and half a |
dozen other leading insurgents who /
regard Mr.. Cannon as a likeable old |
although the representative of |
a pernicious system. They shook his /
hand and Uncle Joe" returned the |
compliment with apparent sincerity
A few minutes later as the spectators /
were troopinz from the gallery and 1
members were f1ocking into the cloak
rooms the last scene was enacted. On I
the disheveled battle ground the old |
guard gathered about the speaker |
" lille Jim Tawney of Minnesota led a
mighty chorus in this song:
o, dear old Uncle Joe,
Search high and low
You'll ne'er find such a one
AS dear old Uncle Joe.
''You are the only speaker ever elect
ed twice in one session" said Dalzell
as he grasped the speakers hand.
Defeat is bad, but victory is great"
said Scott of Kansas.
'You are the biggest man in Amer
ca today" said one, and several greet
I'd him with Great Mr.. Speaker,
great
Murdoch Wanted Finish Fight.
Representative Victor Murdoch of
kansas, recognizing that compromise
vas impossible, refused to attend the
house conference in the morning. He |
With members of his family. but the
galleries were already packed and the
rails outside fairly damned with peo-
lie so that even a congressman fam
" could not get near the doors.
TT all depends on how many lnsuF-
Trsaf hITlrd0flE