The Cairo bulletin., 1910-03-21

Washington, March 2U.~-lne tllaDic
j struggle over the speakership in the
Nhouse of repres entatiycs which
Rreaehed climax yesterday in the
destruction Of the speakers power in
the committee on rules and the de-
termination by the house to recon
struct that committee, yet leaving
Cannon the speakership itself, may
have marked not SO much the ending
Of three days battle as tn ebeginning
of great political war 1t is reeog-
nized by all factions that his posi-.
bility is the principal feature of the
political situation in washington to-
day.
Hardly anybody here thinks the
condition of affairs after the mo-
mentous battle represents any salts
factory conclusion. The speaker and
his friends appear to interpret the
refusal of the house to depose him as
justifying them in claiming to have
wrested victory from defeat, en-
I dorsement from Reputation. Not a
few insurgents who voted for Can
8 mons retention are wondering today
ii they made d political blunder;
whether their antl.Cannon constitu-
: ents will not, indeed, hold their re
! tanning him in the speakership to
have nullifled their vote to eliminate
Ia, ln p,t1n INIT
Returned to the Fold"
The Republican regulars compla-
| Gently claim that the insurgents who
voted for the speaker have returned
h to the party fold. The Democrats
taunt these insurgents with having
4 been reereant to the logic of their
insurgency. Even in the senate the
regulars are apprehensive lest the
| insurgent confagraton may be about
| to spread to that house; the insurg-
ent senators are wondering whether
| they made the most OF their oppor-
! tunity.
Cannon's defiant speech last night
| before the Illinois Republican Asso.
/ citation, in which he contemporary
i denounced the insurgent members of
4 the house who stood by him in the
4 final test as "cowardly members OF
Il congress without the courage of their
convictions" has cut to the quick
those men who responded with their
votes to what they say they believed
to be their duty to the party and
] country, and saved him from utter
humiliation.
Insurgents Are Bitter
Today the feeling among these in
surgents is one of btterest resent
ment over the attitude assumed to-
ward them.
One of them, who refused to allow
his name to be used, said: we in
surgents who cast our votes yesterday
against unseating Cannon were the
bravest men in the house. 1t took
consummate courage that will prob
ably cost me my seat in congress,
But il we are to be met with calumny
because we sacrificed ourselves to
save the house of representatives
from chaos, disorder and prevent the
ruin Of the Republican party, then
favor carrying the war to finish"
The next conflict will come, II ii
comes. on the selection Of the new
rules committee provided for by the
Norris resolution.
Neither the regular Republicans
nor Democrats have yet made any ar
rangements for party caucuses, but
both caucuses will be he'd in the next
three or four days.
May Caucus Today.
Representative Tawney, one of the
leaders Of the Republicans, said that
undoubtedly one would occur perhaps
tomorrow.
OF this committee the Republicans
will choose six members and the
Democrats four. Whether the In
surgents will be given representation
among the six Republicans Is nov
unknown. They says they have moi
asked and do not care for membership
ON the new committee.
The Democrats will choose theil
four members in caucus, and they ex
\ pect their selections to be ratified b.
the vote Of the house. Of these four
three are practically certain to b
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