The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-20

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Try. For mn audience tho participants
I In the fight had every person that
could ha squeezed into tho galleries
OF tho Ifousc, particularly tho whole
or tho SENATE, and every individual, by
previous membership or otherwise, who
could claim the privilege OF tho floor.
That was only the most infinitesithnl
traction OF the real audience. however.
! Tho whole country watched and waited
Tor tho result Of tho struggle
What Will be tho definite, tangible
results OF the big victory of the allies
no ono is yet in a position or of a
mind to say. Admittedly. Cannonisin is
ended for one thing. No ~. VIII the
Speaker and his closc-corporation
Rules Committee DO able, to force
through the House what measures they
please or Withhold those they do not
like. Not again. is II claimed. will
debate BIO prohibited. while the Speak
er's fayorites will be shorn Of the priv
ileges they have not only used, but
abused.
There will be new Committee on
Rules. 1t will be a Republican COM
mittee, and the Insurgents themselves
say they arc not assured they Will
members will first be selected in party
caucus, in all probability. before they
are elected by the House Tho 1nsur-
gents have promised to go into eau
Gus for that purpose. and they Will be
there a mighty small minority. But
even II they are not represented and
the new committee IS controlled by the
Cannon Regulars. 1t will be a commit
tee that will have upon 1t tho fear of
tho happenings OF this day. and the
old high-handed methods are not like
~ to be repeated.
Claim n Triumph.
There are those among the Regulars
who hold that by the work or tho
strenuous day insurgency in the Re-
publican party was destroyed They
even go SO far as to clainl-men like
DalzelI, Boutell and Mann--that the
real result OF the day was tv!umpF.i
for the Speaker. meaning thereby what
they call tho final vote OF confidence"
THE 1nsurgent leaders arc not worrS-l
ing about that view Of the case, never
theless And in tho view of the In.
surEcnt leaders. as we'll as OF the
other larger minds OF the House, the
have justified themselves.
Their Justification was in their victory,
they are no longer regarded
as Insurgents. but as revolutionists
became revolution whenit
succeeded.
The Insurgent leadcrs--Norris. who
Introduced the resolution that over
turned Cannon and led the fight; Mur-
dock, whom the Speaker has referred to
as "a wild.eyed son Of Destiny; Cooper,
Madison, Gardner, Fish, Fowler anu
the rest--can so homo and ask their
constituents for an Endorsement as men
who have done something and can cite
their very success as justification tor
breaking away from party uictat'on:
Norris and oil the rest can also take
some pride In the fact that throughout
tho struggle they fought fairly. TO
be sure, they cut off the stalWarts
without debate when they desired to
do SO, but then Tawney, Dalzell and
Mann had been offered fair share IN
the discussion, but refused IT IN tns
hone that chance might be offered
them to filibustcr and thereby stave Off
defeat for another day or week.
1t was a clean cut, decisive victory
that the allies won. Their first point
was carried by clear majority OF
seventeen, and on the bis vote Of the
day. the adoption OF the Norris rcso- |
/, luton, they won by majority OF
rhirty-six. The Regulars cannot claim
that the allies scratched through or
\ that their own defeat was a scratch or
nuke.
Both sides were ready for the fray
when the House was convened at u
O'Clock. Every man who could be
reached and brought here in time, to
take part In the struggle was In his
seat, and those who were absent or not
paired were SO few that 1t was known
that tho result would not be affected
by their absence.
Brings It on HimHclf.
81 Tho conference that had been held
between the 1nsurgent and Regular
leaders at o o'clock had been a dismal
failure. Cannon madc 1t a failure him
self. When he had had time to think
1t over last night he refused to humil-
iato himself by acqulcscIng by bring
3 Ing In rulo that would put him off
the Rules Committee, and the 1nsur-
gents declined to yield that point to
get a compromise. So the conference
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