Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-19
.NEWELLGAVE NOTICE CROWD AT CAPITOL
Objected to nstgaton of Great Throng Fought for Ad-
Newspaper Stories. mission to Galleries
PROTESTED TO BAL / NIGER FACED THE END BRAVELY
Examined by Investigating Old Guard Undsmayed Its I'm
Committee pending Defeat
c0NTRADICTs THE SECRETARY LOYAL TO THE LAST DITCH
Preferred
Latter Restoration of Rather Desert
Sites. Veteran Chief
Great Throng Fought for Ad-
mission to Galleries.
FACED THE END BRAvELY
old Guard" Undismayed at Its I'm.
pending Defeat.
LOYAL TO THE LAST DITCH
Preferred to Go Down Fighting
Rather Than Desert Their
Veteran Chief.

Wild applause from the packed and
damned galleries greeted an announce
ment by Speaker Cannon. fifteen minutes
after the House met today that IL refused
to adjourn on motion of Representative
Gaines of West Virginia. Why Mr.. Gaines
made the motion nobody seemed to have
clear idea. II IL was with the view OF
postponing the fatal day as long as pos
sible. he did not have the sympathy OF
the House leaders. They want the intol-
cradle situation in the House brought to
an end as soon as possible
But 1t was no wonder the galleries ap-
plauded. Most of the spectators in or
der to be sure of their seats had Jour-
neyed to the Capitol. from all over the
city, as early as 10 O'Clock, and after sit
ting in the uncomfortable, cramped chairs
for two hours. waiting for something of
Interest to occur. they were decidedly
averse to being sent out again without
hearing a word of impassioned oratory or
seeing single brick thrown.
Showed Interest in Fight.
1t has been many q long day since
there was such crowd at the CAPITOL.
when new Congress conveaes there Is
usually jam that packs the galleries
and perhaps oyerfiows a bit. but in the
memory of the old veterans of the House
and of the press gallery, there has never
been such gathering OF the public TO
witness any legislative proceedings i'm
the lower branch of the national legisla-
ture. 1t testifies more elouuently than
anything else could to the interest that Is
taken by the people of Neutrality-suspicious.
ably. too. only rejecting the feelings OF
the entire country-in the finish fight that
had peen Waged Tor the past several
days and that promised to reach its
sensational climax today
Out In the corridors thousands of the
disappointed pushed and pulled and surg
ed and scrambled in vain effort to get
near enough to one of the doors of the
House to catch even fleeing glimpse of
the proceedings going on within, or TO
catch word from the lips of one OF the
insurgents or the old guard
The big building-and there are not
many bigger on top of the earth-was
everywhere crowded. as thousands of late
arrivals unable even to get up on the gall
lery floor OF the House, spent their time
IN looking at the sights elsewhere under
those visitors who did remain were
unusually and distressingly persistent.
The guard at the main door of the House
chamber had to be redoubled, or else
SoiC VI the dIAlOuS spectators would
undoubtedly have forced their way right
onto the floor and mingled with the
members.
Waited for Stroke Of Noon.
OF course. every idea centered on the.
stroke of noon and on the history that
would be written after that hour
when does the Speaker come IMP ran
the whispers around the galleries. as the
hands of the clock closed together on
twelve and the House had not been
called to order. But they didn't have to
wait much longer, for just a second or so
after the big clocks near the Capitol had
finished striking the Speaker strobe into
the chamber from the door nearest his
private office and assembled the rostrum.
Wild applause burst forth. The regu-
guard. some Of them representing anti
Cannon districts and trembling on the
brink of defeat owing to their loyalty to
their legislative chief, whose personality
they love and whose courage they admire.
clapped their hands and banged their
desks. Some of them cheered. The gal
leries joined in the demonstration.
Then the gavel fell. and. while the jour-
nal Of the proceedings of the twenty-nine-
hour continuous session was being read
there was a lull.
The Speaker never looked better,
stronger, more vigorous and more deter
mined. While this formality was going
forward he sat in his chair. fiddling with
his new gavel-he smashed the other try
ing to keep order during the boisterous
session of Thursday highland looking
out over the House. His mouth was set
In a grim. straight line. and he was the
perfect embodiment of mo quarter
either asked or received.
Absolute Quiet Prevailed.
Then the droning of the journal clerk
died away and the Speaker, reading from
manuscript, started to deliver his opinion.
The members stirred in their seats and
the spectators In the galleries leaned for
ward. The House was absolutely dead
quiet.
OF course it was inevitable that he
should uphold the point of order made
by Representative Dalzell against the OBJ
noxious Norris amendment But the reg
ulars-the old guard once more-took this
chance of showing their loyalty and their
banged their desks and shouted. and
the racket died away some of the more
enthusiastic started ii up all over again.
There were whole lot Of dynamics
loose in the chamber today. All these
men who cheered and yelled and banged
their desks, as they smiled brayely
across the chamber at their colleague and
friend and leader, Uncle Joe We're alb
solutely certain that he was going down
to defeat and they. with him; that soon
his head would lie upon the block and
that perhaps. unless conditions changed
very much in their districts. they would
soon follow him. with a political Charon
to ferry them over the black waters OF
the feared and hated river StyX.
Went Down Undismayed.
But they might have been going to VIC
tory rather than to defeat, for all that
could have been guessed from the racket
they made, the way they looked and the
confident way they acted. There were
even some of the regulars who noticeably
turned I'D their noses when Representa-
tiyes Taylor and Rowland of Ohio, who
all this session have found 1t profitable
to denounce Cannon and Cannonism in
their districts and profit bv Can>o7 and
Cannonism In Washingto
fence for til ..st the
voted with the insurgents and
their democratic allies.
One of the regulars. stepping into the
corridor, said, with deep feeling I'm his
voice and written on his face: Gentle
men, my support of Uncle joe Cannon
today means that 1 won't even get the
in my district. But I'd rather
be consigned to political death and po-
litical torture than betray the patron
who has helped me- the colleague who
has worked with me and the friend who
has played with me than desert him at
this moment, I want to be sure and
certain, gentlemen. when / go TO bed
alone at night that am in decent COM
pany.''
And this man Is a member of the COM
,nS<tao nm rules of the HOusp That'a