Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-12
RULES LITTLE CHANGED,
WILL DEMOCRATS BE HossED7
Is Center Of Interest in Warrington
No Factions Among Majority, But
Ranks Are Divided Into elements"
Offensive and Defensive Alliance
Between Leaders.
Especial Correspondence


the house of representatives. and
Champ Clark sits on the throne Of
Cannon and Reed. The democrats are
actually in control of what constitu-
! ton phraseology denominates "the
more numerous branch Of the legislat-
ure" The republicans hope that they
| are in control Of the senate. but no.
/ body knows just yet whether their
hope is justified by the facts.
| The house is the center of interest.
| VIII Champ Clark earn for himself the
title Of GEAR" that was created for
! Speaker Reed and that descended to
]! his successors in office? That is the
question which agitates the speculative
mind in Washington today
| There are those who say that the
| loss of the power to appoint commit
| tees has taken from the speaker the
greater part of his official influence
and that Champ Clark will be merely
a figurehead while Oscar Underwood,
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee, bosses the house.
Will the House Be 6ossed?
There are those who say that the
rules have been changed only in micro
| ScOplC DETAILS, anu lIAdI AifS opSehfNSA
still is the all-powerful parliamentary
! monarch whose wish will be the la"
Of the majority party.
There are those, but they are all
democrats, who say that the house
| will not be bossed by anybody, that 1t
will be governed by itself and that
Champ Clark will be its leader. lead
er who will lead and not drive.
l In any event the character of the
| leading democrats of the house be-
comes Of great interest to the conn-
try. for it is they who will decide how
this house shall be run Whatever
may have been said in passion and
heat, the majority Of tie house a,ways
has run away to play with the dem
| ocrats.
| First Of all there Is Champ Clark.
with his lawn tie, his bull voice. his
bucolic vernacular and his presidential
bee. The new speaker Is all that the
orthodox leader is supposed not to De-
He never wears gum shoes, ne never
rhispers and sometimes he talks
! little too much-as witness his break
With respect to the annexation OF Can
ada II has been the fashion, there
fore. to apply to him the orthodox
yards,tick Of orthodox leadership ana
he has not measured up to the 1oo.
Clark the Biggest Democrat.
/ But the facts are that he has been
/ the most successful leader the dem
| ocrats were able to find IN the sixteen
Years OF theE wandering in the wilder
mess Of the minority. Joe BAILEY
couldn't lead them, Jim" Richardson
couldn't lead them, John Sharp Will
Hams couldn't lead them far-Champ
Clark led them all the way thru. Inc
other three leaders started out IN each
congress with a solid party Deh1no
| them, but the party soon became COL
lection Of factions fighting among
| them selves. Clark started with a serl-
Gus bolt-fhe detection OF the famous
"twenty-three" who bolted the demo-
cratic caucus to save Uncle Joe Cannon
from humiliation and parliamentary
destruction. That breach appeared to
be permanent, but, by legerdermain OF
alchemy, Clark united the two factions
and brought the democrats up solidly
to support his program. Then they
carried the elections and the other day
the caucus showed that the new ma
jority begins as a harmonious unit. The
pessimists quote "red in the morning
sailors warning" but the fact is that
tChamp Clark believes that the outlook
for harmony Is good, with himself In
the role Of chief harmonizer.
Now Oscar Underwood looks more
like a real leader, on form. He is suave
as Clark is blunt, he is studiously care
full in speech as Clark is studiously
careless, he is conservative in state
ment as Clark is radical. he has the APP
pearance of having Information as
Clark has the appearance Of having I'm
pulses. And, most important, he Is the
chairman Of the ways and means COM
mittee that makes the tariff bills, that
plans the legislative policy, and thai
appoints the committees.
If the time should come in the course
Of this congress that Underwood should
, break with Clark ana stteIuptt &c Se!:s
the reins Of power, it would be a pretty
fight.
Offensive and Defensive Alliance.
But there is every reason to believ<
, that their working agreement is in thu
form Of an offensive and defensive al
lance. that each recognizes the value
OF the qualities Of the other, and the,
will work together in the future as the,
have In the past.
II II the break should come, there IS NJ
certainty that Underwood would b,
successful He is suspected Of con
: servatisrn, and this democratic hous,
{ Is saturated with progressivism. If tn
democrats OF the house are called upol
to choose between C1arlks heart an,
l Underwood'e head they probably will
: rally where waves the white lawn tie
Then there is Robert L. Henry
chairman Of the committee on rules. I
win be his province to report the spe
; cial rules which will enable the dem
: ocfats to put thru their bills in spite o
{ Mr.. Mann's filibusters. Already tn
> lrepublicans guns are trained on Henry
!. His code Of rules, albeit as like tn
, Reed Cannon rules as two peas in
. pod. will be subjected to criticism b.
men who know vastly more about tn
intftcactes OF parliamentary law tina,
Henry. or any other man on the rule
! committee.
} Henry 70 Put Rules over
Hut with sixty-odd majority benin,
In Mr.. Hsnry wiz - abls 70 ..pu