Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-11
TWICE ovERTHREw CANNON
AS INSURGENTS HEAD
Norris Thorn in Speakers Side and
Dislike is Mutual-Dolliver Com
ments on Gag Rule as Applied to
Pinchot and Draws an Apt llIustra-
ton of the Conditions.
Especial Correspondence.

GtlllGu away the AOlOlS VI tioiaiiiis-
tering its first defeat to the house or
ganization, is expected to be announced
within few weeks as a candidate for
senator from Nebraska, to succeed
Senator Burkett. Norris is one of the
original progressive group, who opened
the fight against the house organlZa-
ton two years ago and have kept 1t
alive ever since. He has confined his
insurgency pretty closely TO the ques-
| ton of the house rules, making that
the one issue. In doing this he has
been animated by the belief that 1T was
possible for the insurgents to get more
votes, and to get them sooner, or that
proposition alone. than if they got other
matters mixed up with their fight for
| reorganization of the house
| Norris is probably more unpopular
with Speaker Cannon than any other
progressive; yet he voted for Cannon
| for speaker, after supporting Cooper of
Wisconsin In the house republican
caucus More than that he voted for
the Payne Aldrich tariff bill. He has
been a progressive of the most radical
sort during all his service in congress-
and the last two years has become
known as one of the best parliamentary
fighters in the body.
Bitter Attack on Cannon.
Norris is especially disliked by the
sneaker because of his part in the fight.
while the tariff bill was under consid-
Grafton. to strike out of the measure
the countervailing duty on petroleum
l.
cularly insistent that that duty should
be retained, and even took the foor'
at the close of a long and bitter dis
cussion, to oppose the amendment
Norris made bitter speech attacking
the speaker and for that and the fact
that the speakers side lost on the vote
he has been beyond the pale OF forgive
ness.
Now the sins OF this prairie member
have been added to by the furthef
crime of beating the organization IN
J. the matter of the Ballinger-Plncho'
resolution. The organization plan was
! handsomely set up, for the purpose o
!, having the committee named. on th'
mart of the house, by the speaker
: was we'll understood that the speaker
was to name, as head of the hous'
/, division, his lieutenant DalzeN o
O Pennsylvania
. Norris moved the amendment to hav'
. the committee elected by the house
, and on the call of the roll 1t carrie'
by three majority. 1t was not only
I direct defeat for the organization, blu
9 i, was aAdefeat on the particular pro
r position which has been nearest to IN
!. heart of Mr. Norris. He has from tn
J. beginning of the anti-Cannon flgh
d urged that the real secret of the speak
~ ar,s mower was the fact that he name
q the committees of the house Las
March. when the house organized, Nor
ris moved a scheme for amendmen
y of the rules, which would have pro
vided for the appointment of commit
tees by the house itself. thru an cleo
D tive committee The proposal was re
n iected: but the vote that the hons
Of shall name the investigating Commute
u. ,s a victory, on the very same PROPOSE
" ton, for Mr. Norris.
a He's a Good Fighter.
Ia Tn addition to the distinction
NJ having beaten the speaker twice. MOI
20 ris enjoys the dubious satisfaction {
- having been elected to the seat he no
~ occupies by smaller majority tina
&c any other member of the present nous
ID received. He defeated his democrat
w opponent by just twenty-five votes. 4
st. that. he ran remarkably, for Nebrasi
ms went democratic, and the democra
Nv carried three of the six districts in II
%, state. But it is a very close distrie
and Norris would have a hard fight
be returned this year. His friends ha'
strongly urged him to run for the sci
ate.
on Recently Mr.. Norris was among Il
ne progressives who discovered that Il
to postoffice department was not accep
S. ing and acting on his recommendation
on for appointment of postmasters.
ax promptly wrote letter to Preside
,ar Taft, saying that it was the presiden
M right to withdraw all patronage: b
- protesting against having it put on t
~ ground that the people who were tn
~ Disseminated against were not in syr
se pathy with progressive policies. He G
- clared that for himself, and for t
rest of the insurgents, he consider
it particularly unfair and unjust
place the action on such grounds, b
cause they had been the persistent a
es- vocates of progressive policies, a
ar their fight had been to change the ru
aC' OF Inc nOusc.
Dts And the next day he won his fl
Ter fight of the session.
zoo Now 1T is confidently believed tt
,a Norris. who has been considering
- senatorial candidacy for months pa
., 40 will be announced, and that he v
lie make a hard fight for the republic
'he nomination.
on DolIiver on Gag Rule.
Senator Dolliver. who is the wit q
the orator of the upper chamf
caused a great sensation when he {
Tor. peared on the floor the other day w
-, that letter from Forester Pinchot 6
~, asked the privilege of reading 1t.
~ The Iowan was one of the features
n"s the tariff insurgency last spring, {
REQ the speeches in which he made the t
anc Tiff interesting enough to hold a croy
lcei ed gallery and the full senate hour
iap ter hour, are remembered as among
ctol most remarkable achievements OF
wed tariff debate.
ain Wherefore, when Dolliver prepa
as the seeming spokesman OF Pincl
he was Instantly the center Of inter
II he was to take charge Of Pinch
'ang case, there would certainly be sol
'ry? thing doing every minute and an o
pop worth going to hear.
der After the session, therefore, he
lila. repeatedly urged to explain what 1t
imeant. Was he going to handle