Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-03-31
MINORITY LEADER
IN NEXT HOUSE
considered Likely That Speaker
Cannon viii Take Up the
Task.
OTHER NAMES MENTIONED
compromise Be Necessary to Find Se-
eeptabIe Leader-senate Republic
ans Worrying Over Successor to
Aldrich - Democrats Plan
Tariff Revision.
Rx GEORGE CLINTON.

washington. - Republicans OF the
house Of representatives like the Re
nubl;cans of the senate are discussing
n advance the question OF the legisla-
five leadership of their party when at
the next session II becomes the minor
Nv marty. Speaker Cannon will leave
.tba chief chair of the house to take
his place on the floor. and there Is
feeling among the party members that
he ought to be officlally recognized by
the organization as the leader on the
aoor Whether or not he is finally rec
oenized as leader Mr.. Cannon VIII
he one Of the chief guides Of Repub-
licsn thought and one Of the. chief
workers. along lines of opposition to
Democratic endeavor, but as every
body knows there is an element In the
Republican ranks which will be loath
10 accept the actual officially recog-
nized leadership of Mr.. Cannon.
II seems altogether likely from the
advance view point that Mr.. Cannon
VIII be leader de jure as well as leader
De facto, but there are good many
Republicans who think that 1t is posi-
bic compromise may be made. and
some man acceptable both to organi-
ration men and insurgents may be CIV
en- recognition as actual chief. Repre-
sentative Payne of New York, the au-
thor Of the tariff bill. who is at pres
ent the Republican house leader, but
there IL feeling that Mr.. Payne is
Wiling to give over the responsibility
Of position which carries with IL any
amount of hard work. Representative
Dalzeil Of Pennsylvania as far as brain
and ability are concerned is amply
qualified for the leadership, but his
views Of party procedure and Of legis-
lation are not those of the progress
sives, and they probably would enter
objections Of much the same kind to
him that they entered against the lead
ership of Mr.. Cannon.
Mccall a Possibility.
There is Representative Samuel W.
Mccall, Republican, Of Massachusetts,,
who piloted the Canadian reciprocity
I'LL through the house at the present
session. Mr. Mccall Is generally &C
counted an organization Republican.
but at times he has stood with the 9TH
er faction Of the party. Mr.. Mccall
Il one OF the two or three lien in the
house known as scholars In politics"
Long before the Republican party had
committed itself in a national conven-
ton to revision Of the tariff Mr.. Nc
Call had made speeches on behalf of
cuts In the schedules. He was early
recognized as a tariff reformer, but
nevertheless when the Payne-Aldrich
BIN was put to its passage in the house
Mr. Mccall voted for It and this kept
his party tariff regularity.
This Massachusetts, man is a skilled
debater and his speeches are highly
finished. II should be said that when
the revolt came In the house against
the rule OF Speaker Cannon that Mr..
Mccall paid tribute to the speaker
which for eloquence rarely has been
surpassed In the history Of the house
Of representatives. That speech made
the organization men forget Mr.. Nc.
Calls tariff ''heresy." but 1t did not
endear him particularly to the oppo-
nents Of the speaker.
The progressive and insurgent Re
publicans in the house like McCall's
stand for conservation, and for half a
dozen other measures and It is posi-.
Ole that they would hail his choice as
leader with a whole heart, but It must
90 said that the chances seem to favor
me selection Of man whose "organi-
nation orthodoxy" never has been in
the least questioned. So-called regular
republicans will have a majority Of the
party membership IN the next house
ana they can do as they wish In the
matter OF selecting a leader, and the
chances Of compromise choice de-
pend entirely on the belief or lack of
oeliet OF the party majority as to
Nnetner or not the time has come to
a'tempt to patch up differences.
Who VIII Succeed ALBRIGHT
me Republicans Of the senate
sun are thinking over the matter
Oh the leadership Of their party
~ mat body after March 4 when Sen.
a.or Aidrich leaves the service. Sen
s'or hale Of Maine during the last
uays OF the present session has been
ssuns as Republican leader, but Hale
a'so sewers his connection with the
senate at the end of the present ses.
sun Senator Boise Penrose Of Penn
,sivania has been suggested for the
.aoersnip. but there is a good deal
- opposition to his choice, coming
iseiy from the Republicans who
we're not in sympathy with the pro
sions OF the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill,
ne Republicans known sometimes as
sives.
senator Penrose is member of the
senate finance committee, the chair.
aanship Of which usually carries sen.
&c leadership with It. II he is made
.airman Of the committee, a position
nncn ne would get II promotion in
ssuiar line were given him, he prob
GUY WIZ be made the Republican lead
$, put II Is conceivable that a prece
ven. might be broken and that the
&0srship might be given to some one