Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-21
POLITICAL WAR IMMINENT
IN CONGRESS


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limit fixed BY the .ssrris resolutto I
for the election q a. a..0 committee.
0f this committee. the republicans
will choose six members ana the dem
~oerats four. Y afinei the insurgents
viii be given Isp. ssent,ilon am,ng
the six republicans IS rop unknown.
They say they hav4 not asked AMI
do o care for membership on .hc
new committee.
We don wish to assume RESPONSE
bfiity for legislation or try 10 force
ourselves on the house ln that way.
said one Of the members. III would
not be just for us 10 do sor
Tho democrats will choose their
four members IN caucus and expect
their selections will be ratified by the
vote OF the house. OF these four.
three are practically certain 10 be
Minority Leader Champ Clark. Fitz-
gerald Of New York and Underwood
of Alabama. The first two are mem
bers of the old committee and UNI
doubleday will he accorded similar
honors on the new. There is q gem
eral demand among the democrats
that Underwood. who is Leader
Ciark's first Lieutenant on the floor.
be given a place. The fourth demo-
crat has not yet been even discussed
to any extent.
To attempt To predict whom the re-
publicans VIII select would he the
merest speculation. Besides Speaker
Cannon. Daizeii Of PENNSYLVANIA and
Smith OF Iowa. are in the republican
memers OF the present rules commit
ice, BY the terms OF the Norris
amendment Speaker Cannon is specif-
.ically eliminated from the new COM
mittee. The democratic leaders said
they expected no difficulty in having |
their selection for this committee rat
flied By the house, as the insurgent |
republicans a given them a pledge |
10 support the democratic nominees. |
partl} in consideration Of the unani- |
nous vote Of the democrats for the |
Norris amendment.
But the high ly important selection
Of this new rules committee was or
secondary consideration in the talk
today rs TO whether the war within
the ranks of the republican party was
20 continue or not
The legislative program in congress
was scarcely mentioned AT nh except in
connection with the probable delay Il
VIII encounter before the political air
has become sufficiently clarified to 20
ahead with legislation. 1t was gem
orally recognized that some semblanee
quietude must be restored before
congress can proceed with the calm
consideration Of important measures.
Every important administration
measure is halted where II stood last
Wednesday, while the preliminary
Of the battle began.
A republican. high in the councils
h party aud of eminent political
Judgment gave IL As his opinion today
the worst was now over in re-
publican strife and that permanent
peace would shortly ensne.
Thu party n the Dquso Is more
now than for a hong time he
iaid. There win he no disposition to
abuse the %insurgent members. but on ]
contrary an effort to conciliate F..
hem. :
~ make q guess thai the congress
committee VIII from this time
forward lend its aid 10 the election OF
hose men who yesterday stood by the
ltrty and every effort Will be made
o secure their return TO congress
What about the issue OF Cannon
Cannonism p" was asked.
That is going 10 he taken care Of.
you can count upon it," was the
'eplN. IT is a good prediction TO
make that Speaker Cannon VIII am
long before the campaign for
he election OF a new congress begins.
hat he will not again be a candidate
or speaker.
Where. then, viii be the issue YOU
peak ofn' 1t Will not exist II is
this basis that the warning ele-
of the republican party can Ia
easily brought together and thatl
8 what Is going to happen
This republican believed that the
fleet of the battlc Of last week will
'e advantageous 10 an administration
now In congress. He ex-
his opinion that both sides 10
ne republican ranks would stand
old for the TAFT program and that
party pledges would be fully re-
.cemcd.
In the meantime. al these various
onjectures Of party seers must await
he verdict of time. All sides are
II only from the sheer tx
OF the struggle from which
hey have Just emerged. Tomorrow .
he b~edragsled ranks VIII he reformed
nd move forward TO whatever there [
be TO meet. .
Much depends on whether the in .
lreents, who lined ZAP and prevented =
he crushing defeat Of Speaker Can -
and his onstinE from the chair. n
my 10 ne rewarded last night with
enunciation at the speakers hands
th De placated or whether they NAV
N ~ ANfN AAAAUff tt~tlNBNfMf IL
ma thus driven into more relentless
ahellion.
u was even said today bv a promi-
member az the house that n sec-
assault might occur upon the
20 remove him from the
1eakcrship and IL was pointed outI
the insurgents who stood by the
'eaker might next time be leadingiI
ie eight to down him A motion toll
ecltre the speakcrship vacant IS IN
any time iH the house and this
.emher believed that the p~recedeut
" ITS use. established YESTERDAY
.leht be invoked any time that sit-
alton seems 10 warrant it.
There was talk. also. of a furthcrU
tack upon the rules Of the house.
iw that a big entering wedge has
inserted, although it was doubt
generally whether this would Dc
-pcdient from a political standpoint
necessary for the present.
The appointment OF an the commit
es oi the house by the house witself
stead % by the speaker j. spoken
as the next move OF the reformers
the rules, but as such action az this
would entirely d~isorranize the
iuse. u is not likely 10 be couSid-
Ell before the beginning of the nrxf
RESIDENT DEEPLY
INTERESTED ~ Eighth
Albany. y. Y. March 1a-Presidant
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