The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-30
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Congressman Anthony Says In
surgency Is Dying.
Republicans of Kansas Will Fall
Into Line.
SPEAKER OF HOUSE
Will Be Not Cannon But w. /.
Smith.
Says He Advocated Revision of
the Rules.
OF HOUSE

the session is printed editorially in the
I-eavenworth Times today and is as
follows:
THE last session will go down on
record as the greatest law making body
in the history of the American con-
gress. The credit for the successful
ending of the session belongs entirely
to William H. Taft. He succeeded in
harmonizing. both by argument and by
threat and use of the big stick, Re
publican majority, during most of the
session hopelessly split by the desertion
of the so-called insurgent Republicans
from the regular or administration Re
publican organization. President TAFT
has seen nearly every one of the
Roosevelt-Taft policies of government
enacted into law. Never before have
the demands of the people of the coun-
try been so fully carried out by any
law making body.
This splendid finish of the congress
sional session was made possible only
when the insurgent Republicans came
back on the reservation and went into
the regular party caucus on the postal
savings bank bill, after which the reg
ular organization had votes enough TO
enact the legislation desired by the
president.
The Last of Insurgency.
In my opinion we have seen the last
of organized Republican insurgency in
congress. President Taft will stand for
no more party disloyalty, the presl-
dents recent turn down of senator
Bristow indica ting what he Will de-
mand in the shape of loyalty to party
principles. The Republicans OF Kansas
will. in my opinion, fail IN me ana
lovaIIy support Taft and the natloIlaI
adninistrati ton. the same as the Repuo-
1{caDs in other so-called insurgent
states like Iowa, Wisconsin and Mil
nesota. have given indications of DO
ing. o,., I'll, not
the
house I think / can name waiter L.
smith of Iowa, the congressman VINO
recently defeated the organization VI
Senators Cummins and Dolliver, as the
man the Republicans Will agree S Spoalt -
tbex, control the next congress Spear
. cannon can we'll afford to retire at
the end of his four terms, full OF hohoT
and years. and with the respect anu
admiration of his country1neh. a.,
ticallv every change neeueo III Tic
,,,1es of the house has been accom-
@rbe removal of the speaker from
tho committee on rules was an empty
victory for the Insurgents rms Hee e.7
60. committee is still representative
~ fbe majority of the house and VIII
out it no important leg SlaIlon s,i
ever be brought to vote against M
bustering tactics of an unscrupulouS
onDos{tion The committee on rules
has only acted half a dozen times TINS
session. but at critical times Ine nouee
couldn't do business without the power
10 limit debate lodged somewhere,
,cs5r 70 he exercised when called Tor
Inv a majority of the house. with the
adoption of the recent resolution
which provides an easy method LOT the
majority of compelling an unWllling
l.aoI1n1itfee to forthwith report bill
which 1t has had under consideration
for a reasonable time and ialleo TO
make a report thereon, II can truly De
said that practically every needed re
oh been
rules of the house of representatives
'r-he makeup of the Republican mem
b~-ship and the attitude of the various
s-roups toward certain policies and the
rules question is an interesting study.
Three Groups in Congress.
ss-The Republican membership of the
lower house of congress is really di-
vided into three groups Whlch may
be known as 'standpat protectlon1sts'
progressive Republicans and 1nsur-
''The mistake made by most news
raper and magazine critics of the pres
ent house of representatives is that
thew classify as a reactionary every
man who does not fully agree With
them on the question of revision of
the rules and the question of tariff
reform, and this classification is not
at all fair
ssThe present Republican member
ship of the house of representatives IS
made up of three groups of men: First,
there is a minority of what you mlght
cali the ultra protectioniStS numbering
thirty or forty men. Then there is
small group who call themselves in
surgent Republicans, numbering per
haps thirty men, who represent the
free trade tendency and antl-national
administration element on the Repub-
lican side. And, lastly, there is the
great majority of the Republican
membership of the house numbering
more than $50 members, who are
neither 'standpatters' nor insurgents
but who may be truthfully called and
really are progressive Republicans.
These are the men who may be said
to be supporters of and wrede ready at
any time to cast their votes for meas
ures embodying what are known as
the Roosevelt-Taft principles of pro-
gressive Republicanism. And to be
perfectly fair some of those classified
as standpatters or as insurgents were
willing to stand for some of these
policies.
Advocated Revision OF Rules.
IT am one of those Republican men,
hers who from the start has advocated
revision of the rules of the house of
representatives When I came to con-
gress two years ago one of my first
acts was to Join with nineteen other
men in signing call for a Republican
caucus to revise the rules of the house.
Out of that movement has come a
number of very vital reforms in the
house rules. but most of the 'uplift'
magazines and reform ewspapers
have not given to the couatry the I'M
biased truth nor accredited to the
movement the success it has achieved.
1--WE have secured the inauguration
Of what is known as the unanimous
consent calendar which eliminates
.fhe necessity of a member going to the
Speakers room to obtain consent for |
recognition to call uD a bill. as when !
'nlaced on this calendar the bill comes |
aup automatically for consideration be- |
'fore the house. although the speaker |
- 4t,a house has the same right to OBJ