The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-14

ing the power of memory.
 He asserted that the fight against the house rules was simply an effort to prevent any tariff legislation, which is the same preposterous fable by which President Taft and his cab inet were induced to snatch the speak CT anu his precious rules as brand from the burning on March 15.
 The statement is not true, and the only way the speaker can be excus. ed for making it Is that he has for gotten utterly what happened that day in the house of representatives
 He knows that the resolution which I offered by authority of the Democratic caucus and the insurgent Republicans of the house to elect committee of fifteen to report a re- vised set of rules specifically author. ized the speaker to appoint the com mittee on ways anr means, enrolled bills and rules, the only three commit tees which have and could have any thing whatsoever to do with the ta fl bill.
 Tt was specifically and clearly stated in the debate on my resolution and subsequently that the alliance or cooperation, or whatever anybody m, nx plooeo 4o oau i+ 1.at,,.;,t 4hn large majority of Democrats and the insurgent Republicans, went only to a reformation of the rules, the speak CT undoubtedly read my resolution.
 Consequently every member of the house, whether Cannonite or anti Cannonite, and every other well in- formed citizen of the republic, must have been utterly amazed when they read his assertion made at Elgin and repeated elsewhere, that the fight to revise the rules was an effort to de- feat tariff legislation.
 His caper is the old trick of the ink fish to darken the waters. He was acting on the principle that any port is good in storm.
 But he will deceive nobody by such perversions of history. The fight to revise the rules has been on in one shape or another to my certain knowledge for twenty-one years, and it will continue never fear, until it is crowned with complete success.
 Tt Is not true that I was endeav- oring to prevent tariff legislation, or desired to. do SO. As I had been work ing tooth and nail all my life for a reduction of the tariff, I would have been an idiot to try to prevent any tariff revision downward, which might be promised or expected from the Re publicans"
 One of the speakers fayorite chaa es is that I, while denouncing him as czar am ambitious to be czar my self, which is too ridiculous to talk about.
 By revising ae rules lose half the power I had as minority leader and shear mysel # at least one-half my power. Should I becomes peaker, but I believed then and believe Iaw that 1 was righ. and working for the public good, for avery patriotic eiti- zen of the republic certainly must de sire to see the house of representa- tive restored to its alcient place of honor and power in our system of government
 The public good demands it as we'll as the public conscience. Ger tainly in giving up one-half of my power in esse and in posse doesn't look like I aspire to be czar, though I would like to be speaker.
 "Mr Speaker Cannon shall not de- grade the lght to reform the rules into a personal quarrel between him and me. It Is Y great public ques-  lions. He and myself are mere incl dents in this battle for reform: I inveigh against the system, not against the man.
 T wish Uncle Joe, as an individual. prosperity, happiness and length of days; but unfortunately he seems to regard every man opposed to the des- potism of the house rules as his per sonal enemy.
 However much I may regret his halIucination in that regard, can not cure it, and shall pursue the even even tenor of my way. striving to to the right as God gives me to see the right.
 Mir. Speaker Cannon may rage un- iii he has mt he can- not terrify tne ..sS. |. no are the ob- iects of his spleen. He Is fond of quoting scripture, although he gen orally quotes from it incorrectly. He should ponder that portion of holy writ which says: Thou shalt not hear false witness aealns thy neigh