River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-12
CANNON IS VICTOR
SPEAKER RULES ADVERSELY ON
A RESOLUTION SEEKING
TO AMEND RULES
DEFIES THE HOUSE; SUSTAINED
Decision Exactly Similar to One That
Started Fight Last March.-Demo-
Gratis Refuse to Support In
surgents.

Washington, D. C. - Speaker Can
non had his hour of triumph in the
house. Badly battered in the three
days storm that swept the house last
March and tore from him much of the
power that had been his, the speaker
"came back" in way that brought a
smile of satisfaction to his counter,
ance and left his ancient enemies, the
insurgents" discounted
The speaker was sustained by an
overwhelming majority on a ruling
identical with the one he made last
March when the house angrily over
ito of insurgent Republicans and
! Democrats.
On the eve of their return to power,
the Democrats voted almost solidly to
sustain the chair. The insurgents-27
of them-stoOd to their guns and fought
the speaker bravely, but deprived Of
Democratic support, their battle was a
| losing one from the start.
1t was the first big political maneu-
yer of the present session of congress
and the regular Republicans were elat-
| ed over the results. They tainted the
Democrats increasingly for their
change of front. The house was in its
! gayest mood and during the three hours
| that the fight lasted, there was almost
continuous laughter.
Tainted for his inconsistency, Rep
resentative Fitzgerald of New York,
| one of the Democratic leaders in the
rules fight, retorted that he did not
propose to be foolish for the sake of
consistency.
Storms of G. o. p. Applause.
When Champ Clark of Missouri,
slated to succeed Speaker Cannon,
voted to sustain the chair on the same
point of order that furnished the basis
for the successful insurgent campaign
of last March, the Republicans broke in
to storms of applause.
1t was on the point as to whether
or not proposed amendment to the
rules, offered from the floor, consti-
tuted question of high constitutional
privilege, that the storm broke. 1t was
precisely this question that called out
the revolution" of last March when
| Representative Norris of Nebraska of
fered an amendment providing for
rules committee of Is members to be
elected by the house, instead of three
members appointed by the speaker.
Out of Order, Rules Cannon.
Speaker Cannon ruled the Norris
resolution out of order Representative
Fuller of Illinois offered a resolution
amending the rules relating to the dis
charge of committees from the con-
sideration of bills. 1t was purely tech
meal. A point of order was raised
against it, and the speaker, declaring he
would ignore the precedent set by the
house last March when it overruled his
ruling in the Norris case, held that the
Fuller resolution was not privileged.
An appeal from the chair was imme-
diately taken by a regular Republican,
Mr.. Gaines of West Virginia, who de-
manded yea and nay vote.
The speaker was sustained by 233 to
So. Those voting against the speaker
were:
Republicans (27-Cary (Wis.), Cas-
sidy (Ohio), Cooper wis, Davis
(Minn), Fish New York;, Haugen
Qowa), Goode Qowa), Hayes (CoI),
Hinshaw (Neb), Hollingsworth (Ohio)
Rowland (Ohio), Kendall Qowal, Kin
kaid (Neb.), Kopp (Wis), Kuster-
mann (Wis.), Lerroot (Wis.), Linl-
bergh (Minn), Madison (Kan), Miller
(Minn., Morse (Wis) Murdoch
(Kans), Nelson CWis), Norris (Neb),
Poindexter Wash), Stevenson
(Minn), Volstead (Minn.), Woods
Qowa).
Democrats (25)-Booher (MoD, Glass
(Va.), Cullop Qnd), Flood (Va),
Floyd (Ark), Hamlin (Mo), Hay
Wa.), Helm (Ky), Jamison Qowa,),
Johnson Is. c., Lively (Tex.), Ma
guire (Neb.), Moss Ind), A. M. Palm
er (Pa) Rauch QndD, Rothermel
(Pa), SABBATH Qll), Saunders (Va.),
Sims (Tenn), Small On. c., Sulzer On.
W, Thomas (Ky), Touvelle (Ohio),
TurnbulI (Va), Wallace (Ark.), Wat
kins La).
Norris Resolution Read.
To point the similarity of the ques-
ton raised and the one raised at the
time of the insurgent battle last March,
the speaker had the Norris resolution
read in full, together with an extract
from the journal of the house telling
some of the details of the fight that
followed and the overthrow of the
speaker. He also had read extracts
from remarks made last March by
Champ Clark and Representative I'm
derwood.