Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-05
All Known Methods Employed.

There was series or roll calls on par
liamentary motions. every one of which
meant the loss Of more than a half hour
At last, while the vote was being taken
on the resolution to force the bill to
passage, Republican Leader Payne. re-
alizing both the impracticability of reach
ing a favorable vote and the narrow
margin of time before the noon adjourn
ment, asked the attention OF the House,
and in brief statement withdrew the
bill. This probably eliminated the tariff
board legislation for long time TO
come, for the democrats who accomplish
ed it's defeat Will control the House in the
coming Sixty-second Congress.
The House then turned its attention
to the appropriation bills.
The clock was set back a half hour,
and in strong contrast with the turbulent
scenes which had gone before the House
devoted itself to an exchange of cour-
teSies. These were the more notable by
reason of the fact that they marked the
retirement of the venerable Speaker Can
non and the passage of House control
from powerful republican majority to a
democratic majority even larger.
First Speaker Cannon asked Mr..
Underwood of Alabama, who will head
the ways and means committee Of the
new House. to take the chair, and Mr..
Cannon took a seat with his colleague.
Then Speaker-to-Be Clark offered d
resolution paying high personal
tribute 10 the recurring speaker, ana
acting Speaker Underwood put the
resolution before the House, which
adopted it unanimously.
Clark's Tribute to Cannon.
In his speech Mr.. Clark character
lied the Speaker as "a great histori-
cal character"
Mr.. Clark said. in part:
1T does not make a particle of diff
ference whether we like him or dis
like him, whether we indorse what he
| has done in whole or In part. or not at
all He is a man with whom the his
torian will deal in days to come, and
he Will occupy large space. Human
nature is a very curious and unrelta BILE
institution. Under strife of circum-
stances and aggravatiOn good men say
what in good humor they never would
dream of saying. Courteous men when
mad will act discourteously. Men who
are ordinarily just when in temper
viii be unjust. And while we do not
1ndorSe everything that Speaker Can
non has done. or everything Speaker Can
non has said, and while perhaps he
and all the rest of us would have need
TO ask that some of our verbal sins at
least should be forgiven, / offer this
resolution without retracting anything
from the principles that we have ad-
vocated in this Congress or any other,
without apologiZing to any mortal
man for the talk of the minority in
TINS House during this Congress-; and,
according to the others the same hon
esty and patriotism that we claim for
ourselves, / believe this resolution is
| just and ought to pass
Il am certain when the heat of the &C.
casion is passed, when we come tn re-
! fleet on il, that We all wish for the re-
uring Speaker peace. plenty. prosperity,
| happiness and length of days"
House Gives Voice to Cheers.
The -esolution provided for commit
tee or two to notify Mr. Cannon of the
adoption OF the resolution and to escort
him back to the rostrum. Acting Speak
/ er Underwood appointed Mr.. Clark and
| Mr.. Mann of Illinois Down the main
aisle Mr.. Cannon, with Mr. Clark hold
. ing his arm and Mr.. Mann close beside.
/ marched up TO the rostrum amid tumult-
Gus cheers. There Mr.. Clark intro .uced
TO the House "our cid familiar friend the
| Hon. Joseph Ct. Cannon, known from the
Atlantic TO the Pacific as Uncle joe "
! he Is the second man in the history of
! the government TO serve as Speaker of
| the House as long as eight yeals" said
| Mr.. Clark, and ne is the only man in
| the history OF the republic that ever
served in the House thirty-six years"
Response by Uncle Joe.
The valedlc,ory of Speaker Cannon
in laying down the gavel after his event
full term in the speakership referred to
| his selection eight years ago. after near
ly thirty years Of service in the House
Four times. he said, he had received the
vote of a majority of the House and be-
| come Speaker. He recalled when he first
marched down the aisle to become Speak
er. when the present Senator JOAN Sharp
| Williams OF Mississippi introduced him.
From that time 20 this" said Mr.. Can
| non, Il have never forgotten that my
duty to the House was to obey its will
and enforce its rules and preside with