The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-03-25
TO CUT DOWN
SpEAKER'SPOWE
Mouse Ants Plan to Elect
All Committees.
LANNON'S LAST TERM IN CHAIR
CHANGE In Rules Not to Come '""
session, It is said-Wil Elect NC"
Committee In Ten Days.

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exs.ior II Is Said-Wil Elect ne"
Committee In Ten Days.
The success OF the house Insurgents
10 ousting Speaker Cannon from tne
committee ON rules will be followed
NJ an attcmptto take from MN Tue
mower TO name committees.
This will not be done this session
or in his congress in all ~probaDihN'
If is likely no further attempt VIII DC
made m change the rules this session
p,t when he next house Is ORGANIZED
then II is probable that the great
work which was begun In the last
few DAVIS will be completed by a pro
vision in the rules that the mouse
mail elect it's own committees as the
senate does now. Until that Is Done
The sneaker will have more authority
than a large share OF the house mem
horo believe he can be safely sntrust-
ed with.
Having PASSED the Norris resolution
,nlarging the rules committee ano Re
moving Speaker Cannon from II, the
iuext thing for the house 10 90 10 W
nick the new rules committee. That
lhoav has been composed OF Speaker
Cannon. Representative Dalzell anu
;Renresentative w. /. Smith, Repuoli'
loans and Champ Clark and F1tzger'
laid. Democrats. 1t will now consist OF
lsix Republicans and four Democrats
l.rd Mr. Cannon will not be one OF the
Republicans.
Under the resolution OF Mr.. Norris
&he election must be In the next ten
havs. II is expected the Republicans
viii caucus 10 select their six mem
bers. and that the Democrats Will eau
Gus 10 pick their four. The prooabin.
Ties are that the regulars will control
the situation as to the caucus SO
completely hat not an insurgent VIII
10 nut on the rules committee. though
for the sake Of inducing party mar
uonv some concessions may be mace.
Representative John Dalzell. OF
psnnsvlvania one OF the high priests
~ the Republican organization In the
house. a man unrelenting in his bitter
antagonism TO the progressive wins Of
his nartv. has long been Identified Win
the rules committee. Almost as much
as Cannon himself. he typiies In the
eve. of the country the tyranny eXer
cised through a long series OF years
bv the committee on rules. The mouse
regulars would 90 far TO smooth things
cver In the house and satisfy the sen
timent IN the country against contro
G fine house by a small element b
Dslzell were kept of the new rules
committee But there is no sign thu
far that ANYTHING Of this kind will b.
done.
II IS probable Dalzell and Smith vii
be kept on. and that such powerful
chairmen Of committees as Tawney
PAYNE. Weeks. of Massachusetts,. snC
Mann. of Illinois. will be added on the
R~apuhlican side While these men
and others aligned with them. wh'
are possibilities are Cannon men. i
would be- impossible for them TO rui
the rules committee with the higl
hand it has been run in the past
Ut HIEN W0NANE 0rAAH' N|
that has so long dominated the hous'
has been fought and the system ha
LOST. II is g %forerunner OF other bat
Ties by those who believe the hous.
should be the truly r~epresentatiy'
body that the fathers of the repubh
contemplated. Not only has the Car
non organization been shattered. bu
the whole organization OF which JC
seph G. Cannon is the head in tn
house and Nelson W. Aldrich is tn
head in the senate has been Jared.
Not vet is the end in sight OF RI
volt against rule Of the house by
small coterie of powerful politician
Rut a tremendous step in advance ha
beeu taken since the outbreak of tn
Democrats and insurgents last Thur
dav afternoon against the speake
These are the chief things that hay
been accomplished:
Bv 1871 to 155 the house adopted Il
amended Norris resolution. which d
poses the speaker from the rules col
mittee and enlsrges that committee
ten.
Speaker Cannon has been made
absolute impOssibility for reelectiC
TO the position Of speaker Of the hou'
after this congress. despite the ia
that the house on Saturday. by q vo
Of 1871 to 155. refused to throw hi
ont OF Office.
as Dead In Train Wreck.
Az least forty-hve persons we