Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-03-25
CANNON IS SHORN
OF HIS POWER

va
Rules by a Vote of
191 to 155
HOUSE REFUSE TO GUST HIM
Resolution Declaring the Speakers
Chair Vacant Defeated by SO Ma.
Jorlty-Democrats and Insurgents
Win Their Long Fight.
Official Record of the Downfall Of
Cannon.
Washington, Mar 22.-Following is
the chronological record of the vari'
Gus roll calls taken by the House OF
Representatives In the historic strug-
gle over Speaker Cannon:
Yeas. Nays.
On Dalzell's motion to lay on
table Norriss appeal from
Speakers ruling ........ .l64 1Sl
On Norris's motion ordering
the previous question on
his appeal .1S2 100
On "Shall the ruling of the
Chair be sustained?" .... .16O 18a
On ordering previous ques-
tion on adoption Of Norris
substitute ........lf 10Y
To substitute the new Norris
resolution for the old,
offered Thursday .193 168
To adopt the Norris resolu-
tlOu l'i Ao~
On Burleson's resolution to
declare the Speakers
chair vacant ............. .155 191
Having beaten Speaker Cannon on 6
consecutive roll calls by majorities
ranging from IT to 40, and after
throwing him off the Committee on
his power in the House. the Republi-
can insurgents turned squarely around
and helped to give him tremendous
vote of confidence, which was tanta-
mount to re-electing him to the
Speakership by majority of 36, ten
more votes than the majority had CIV
en- him upon his election to the place
a year ago.
Only eight insurgents voted against
Mr.. Cannon on the last roll call. BY
the other insurgents the result is re-
garded as long step toward harmony
in the Republican Party and the cleo
ton of Republican House next No
vember. BY the regulars it Is openly
hailed as a great victory for the
speaker, and their rejoicing not only
filled the House with cheers but Is
yet resounding everywhere they meet.
The Norris resolution, providing
for the election of an enlarged Com.
mittee on Rules on which the Speak
er should not be member, after hav-
ing been amended so as to avoid the
division of the House into groups, as
at first proposed, and making the
membership of the new committee ten
instead of fifteen with election by the
House within ten days, was adopted
by vote Of 191 to 155 after long
and exciting day Of roll calls and de-
bate.
Then came a speech from Mr.. Can
non, in which he declared that only
two courses lay open to him-one
was to resign, the other, to entertain
a motion to declare the Speakership
vacated He refused to resign, first,
because it would cause chaotic con-
dition in the House through the neces-
sity Of effecting reorganization in
mid-session. thereby endangering the
important Administration LEGISLATION,
and, second, because resignation
would be confession of either error or
misdoing, neither Of which he would
admit. So he urged the new majority
to put it's strength to the test. to
show the courage Of its convictions,
and submit the motion vacating the
Speakershlp.
Mr.. Norris, the insurgent leader,
whose alertness had brought about
the possibility of administering the de-
feat to the Speaker, sought to have
the House adjourn, but as has often
happened when the Republicans find
themselves in a hole Democrat as
found in the person Of Mr.. Burleson
OF Texas, who was ready to help pun
them out again.
BY a vote Of 191 to 155, the Republi-
can insurgents voting solidly with the
Democrats, the House had adopted the
resolution of Representative Norris.
Republican, of Nebraska, requiring a
reorganization of the Rules Commit
tee, increasing it's membership from
dve to ten, and declaring the Speaker
Ineligible to membership thereon.
BY the curiously Identical vote OF
191 to 155-but with a decidedly diff.
%oropt poraoprol of a1ipnm ant-tho