Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-25
FOUR DEMOCRATS
FOR COMMITTEE
ON RULESCHOSEN
CLARK, UNDERWOOD, DIXON
AND FITZGERALD WIN
RESOLUTION OF INSTRUCTION BY
SIMS is BLOCKED
Tennessee Representative Sought to
Commit Choice of Caucus to
House, but Motion to Adj
lourn Defeats Purpose
Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, March 24.-With
scarcely the semblance of a struggle,
the Democratic members of the house
tonight named the following four mi
nority members of the rules committee
on rules:
Champ Clark of Missouri. 125 votes.
Oscar Underwood of Alabama, 102.
Lincoln Dixon of Indiana, so.
John j. Fitzgerald of. New York IS,
A long list of candidates received
scattering votes.
Representative Slayden Of Texas, re-
ceived 50, the highest number given
to an unsuccessful aspirant.
The total vote of the caucus was
140, and the number necessary to elect
Il.
The expected fight on Representative
FITZGERALD for his attitude on the rules
question at the beginning of the present
congress, when he, with % other Dem
ocrates, left the leadership of Champ
Clark and voted with the Republicans,
materialized early in the meeting, but
failed of any definite result.
Representative Sims of Tennessee
headed the faction opposed to the Sc
lection of Fitzgerald, and introduced a
resolution to instruct Democratic mem
bers to support a resolution to provide
for the election by the house of
committee to select all the standing
committees.
The power of selection IS now vest
ed in the speaker
The maximum strength shown by
the followers of Sims was 80, which
they polled against a motion to ad-
journ.
The Sims resolution did not come to
a vote, as a motion to adjourn was
carried before he could get it up for
consideration.
Text of Sims Resolution
The Sims resolution follows:
Resolved, by the Democratic mem
bers of the house of representatives
in 61st congress in caucus assembled,
that we hereby instruct the Democra-
tic members of the rules committee
selected by this caucus to support any
resolution or bill seeking to take from
the speaker of the house the power to
appoint the standing committees of the
house, and that they use all honora Bile
efforts to bring about such a change
in the rules Of the house as to have
q committee on committees, elected
by the house, whose duty it shall be
to appoint all the standing committees
thereof"
When the caucus adjourned, Mr..
Sims announced he would circulate a
call for another caucus to consider his
resolution. only twenty-five sigma
lures under the rules are required to
compel the holding Of another caucus.
Mr.. Sims was not in the best of
humor over the manner in which his
resolution was treated.
Will Ask Another Caucus
"They win find they are not through
with this matter he said Il shall
take steps to have another caucus
called to commit the party and the
Democratic members of the new rules
committee to this proposition"
The minority leaders, Clark and
Underwood, apparently were satisfied
with the result Of the caucus.
The house committee on rules, IN its
entirety, is as follows: Dalzell Of
Pennsylvania. chairman; Smith Of
Iowa, Lawrence of Massachusetts,,
Fassett of New York. Smith of Cali
fornia, Boutel Of Illinois, Clark of
Missouri Underwood of Alabama,
Fitzgerald of New York and Dixon Of
Indiana.
Representative Haugen of Iowa may
make the next move on the insurgent
checker board. Haugen was the one
who placed Norris of Nebraska. the
author Of the rules committee enlarge
ment resolution, in nomination at last
nights caucus Norris, however, re-
ceiVed only seven votes, the insurgent
vote going almost altogether Ia
Gardner Of Massachusetts.