Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-11
CANNON WILL AID
IN LIMITING RULE
OF NEXT SPEAKER
Prospect of Lively Contest in the
House Over Selection OF the
Standing Committees
DEMOCRATS FRAME DEMANDS
Claim viii Be Made Long Service
Entities Them to important :
ChairmanShips
DEMOCRATS FRAME DEMANDS
Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1o.-Another
contest over the question of taking
from the speaker the power to name
the standing committees is expected
to develop soon after the house of rep
resentatives assemblies next month.
This time 1t is not unlikely that the
movement will receive the support of
Speaker Cannon and his allies, mas
much as the next assignments will be
made by the Democrats.
Interviews with Representatives
Murdock of Kansas and Norris of Ne
braska indicate that they intend to lose
no time in reopening the fight waged
by insurgent Republicans last session,
which reformed the rules and deposed
Speaker Cannon from membership on
the rules committee. That contest
was won by insurgent and Democratic
coalition.
1t is not known what the attitude of
the Democrats i'll be in the coming
session when an effort is made to still
further shear the speakership of It's
great authority, but the chances are
they will seek to force the battle over
to the succeeding session, when they
will be in undisputed control.
HOPE OF HARMONY IMPERMED
Some members of the house, who are
now ncES1 D0IlON0 LIlctl IL LbO pO"CA ~
appoint committees is taken away from
the Democratic speaker at the Sixty
second congress and handed over to
the house membership all hope OF har-
mony in the Democratic ranks may
be abandoned. 1t would mean the up
setting of the seniority rule and the
turning down of many men of long
service who have been the minority
ranking members of the most power
full committees On the other hand,
it Is pointed out that harmony also
would suffer from a maintenance OF the
seniority rule, as that rule would give
to the south the chairmanships of all or
the great committees and leave un-
recognized the new Democratic mem
bership from the northern and western
states.
Under the seniority rule the COM
mittee on agriculture would go to
Lamb of Virginia, foreign affairs to
Flood of Virginia, immigration to
Burnett of Alabama, Indian affairs to
Stephens of Texas, interstate and
foreign commerce to Adamson of
Georgia, judiciary to Clayton Of Ala
bama, merchant marine and fisheries
to Clark of Florida, naval affairs to
Padgett of Tennessee, patents to Le-
gare of South Carolina, pensions to
Richardson of Alabama, postofiices to
Moon of Tennessee, printing to Finley
OF South CarOnndy puDllC UulluluSS "
Sheppard of Texas, public lands to
Robinson of Arkansas, rivers and
harbors to Sparkman of Florida, ter
ritories to Lloyd OF Missouri, and ways
and means, the greatest of all, to IN
derwood of Alabama, unless Champ
Clark of Missouri, who is now the
ranking minority leader, should fail
to capture the speakership.
MINORITY TO MAKE DEMAND
Appropriations, under the seniority
rules, would go to Fitzgerald of New
York, but it is said that such is his
>unpopularity with the prospective
speaker that this place probably will
be given to Burleson of Texas. Mill
tary affairs under the seniority ar
rangement would go to Sulzer of New
York, and there is little doubt that
he will capture this important chair
manship under whatever plan Is
adopted.
whether the seniority rule is re-
tanned or the speaker be permitted to
name committees, or whether their
selection be left to the membership of
the house, all of those who are now
the minority ranking members of the
principal committees are expected to
insist upon promotion to chairman
ships. They will claim that their long
service in the house entities them to
these places as matter of right.