Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-18

SuTSeHV, r6ClLluS INSTANCES
in which he declared members of the
house had been punished by the
speaker by being refused impoftan,
committee assignments, called by
name upon one after another of his
ment they had received at the hands
\ of the speaker.
Mr. Cannon had left the chair. and
stood on the raised dais at the clerk IS
desk, observing the Wisconsin member
with serious face
Interrupting~ at last, Mr.. Cannon ask
ed if Mr.. Gardner, of Massachusetts,
was in the house. and, the Massachu-
setts man appearing, the speaker ask
ed him to tell the house how he had
ceased to be chairman of the committee
on industrial arts and expositions.
Victims Called to Testify.
Mr. Gardner said he had gone off that
committee voluntarily in.order to avoid
embarrassment in his course as an in
surgent.
Mr.. Cannon then explained why he
had removed several members from
their committee places. Fowler. of New
Jersey, he said, as chairman of the
banking and currency committee, had
refused to report the emergency cur
rency bill after the republican caucus
twice had declared In favor of that leg
islation. Murdock of Kansas, Norris of
Nebraska, and-Cooper of Wisconsin, he
said, had refused to attend and abide
by the will Of the republican caucus.
and" said Mr.. Cannon, this being
a government by party, the speaker
made the appointments as he conceived
it to be his duty in respect to the trust
reposed in him by his party"
Struggle is Unprecedented.
Altogether the day brought forth
such struggle for mastery as has not
been witnessed in the house in decades.
torrent of oratory. perfervid appeals
in which humor. pathos, satire, sar-
casm, denunciation, and invective were
commingled, was unpent The insur-
gents, one after another, came forward.
crying out against the Cannon ring of
legislators and their rules under which
legislation has been stifed.
They pilloried the speaker, they
poured out the Walls of their wrath on
Dalzell and Payne and Smith of Iowa
and Tawney, who do his bidding. They
maintained their republcanism to be as
good as the republicanism of the reg
ulars but they arraigned Cannonism as
eti iiiiiAPtiouo SSCNSih NihSih AaSOiS
special interests at the expense of the
whole people.
Regulars Equally Vehement.
The regulars were quite as vehement.
and even more fervent, in pleading for
the preservation of the established
scheme Of things. One by one the
Cannon lieutenants came to bat with
their speeches, some excoriating the
insurgents and classifying them as
near democrats" some wheedling
them with fair promises, some be-
seeching the reunion Of of factions for
the sake of the grand old party. some
bidding them to pity "Uncle joe" held
up to scorn In the fullness OF his years,
and somea arguing from prNesslents the
majesty of the esg1gies the rebels sought
to smash.
The whole affair wasfa case No1
Speaker Cannon's chickens coming
home to roost. For months he has been
defending himself against the charge OF
czarism with the declaration that he
only did the bidding Of the majority
and that what the majority willed the
majority could do at any time.
The insurgents and democrats took
"Uncle Joe" at his word and on this
day, having majority, they demanded
that he do the bidding of the majority.
But "Uncle Joe" demurred.
The chicken that caused the most
trouble when it came home to roost
on the speakers desk was fowl Of the
latest Matching. This was the conten-
ton of "Uncle Joe" and his followers
that regular business could be set aside
at any time for business privileged to
be considered under the authority and
mandate of the constitution of the
United States, rules of the house to the
contrary Notwithstanding.