The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1911-01-13
CANNON IS lICTCR
SPEAKER RULES ADVERSELY ON
A RESOLUTION SEEKING
TO AMEND RULES
RFCAINS HISLOST POWER
Decision Exactly Similar to One That
Started Fight last March.-Demo
Gratis Refuse to Support In
s%urgents.

SUI SCilS'
washington D G. - Sneaker Can
,Yn had his hnur of triumDh in the
0ouse. Badly battered in the three
I,vs' storm that swent the housc last
March. and tore from him much Of the
cover that had been his the speaker
.name hack" in 2 wav that brought 4
smile Of satisfaction TO his countpn-
nee and left his ancient enemies the
Insurgents discounted.
The snaakar Was sustained NV an
,~vnrwheIring majority ON a ruling
IDENTICAL with the one he made last
March when the house aDgriIv over
.1Icd his decision through \ conbiua-
ito of insJreent Republicans and
Democrats
ON the owe of +hnir rarurn +o mower
The Democrats voted almost solidIv to
sustain the chair The iuslrgents-27
Of them-stoOd 70 their guns and fought
fhe sneaker hrayeIv but dppriyed of
Democratic D thei" battle was a
! .OSJn2 one from Inc SIA1I-
It was the first big D0Iitical manpu-
YER of the present session of CONGRESS-
and the regular R]ppublicans were eIat.
Cd over the results They tainted the
Democrats increasingly for their
. change of front The house was in it's
gavest mood and during the three hours
that the fight lasted there was almost
continuous laughter.
Tainted for his inconsistency Rem
resentatiye FITZGERALD of New York
one of the Democratic leaders in the
rules fight. retorted that he did not
proDose To he foolish for the sake Of
consistency.
Storms Of G. O. q. AppIsuse.
When Champ Clark of Missouri
slated to succeed Sneaker Cannon,
voted to sustain the chair on the same
point of order that furnished the basis
for he successful ipsurgept campaten
Of last March. the Republicans broke in
TO storms of apDIause
It was on the point as 70 whether
! or not a proposed amendment To he
rules. offered from tbs floor coneti.
tuted a question of high constit ,~tioraI
privilege, that the storm broke. II was
nracisaIv this question that oored ont
the revolution" of last March when
Representative Norris of Nebraska of
fered an amendment providing for a
rules committee of IS membe,s to he
! elected by the house, instead of three
Out of Order. Rules Cannon
Speaker Cannon ruled the Norris
resolution u of order. Representative
Fuller of Illinois offered q resolution
amending the rules relating to the dis.
charge of committees from the con.
sideration of bills. II was nureIv tech.
nica1 A no;nt If ordar uos roisod
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 a yea and nay vote.
The speaker was sustained by 233 to
63. Those voting against the speaker
were:
hepuDllcans t2f-Cary tWls.), Cas-
slay lohlo), cooper (Wis), Davis
MIMI r1sh lNew York;, Haugen
llo"a)' Goode 'lowa), Hayes (Col.),
Hinshaw lNeo.), H~oillngsWorth tOhio),
rowland Coniol, kendall dowal, Kin.
Kaio lNeo.)' kopp (Wis,), Kuster'
mann WIS.,, Lenroot CWls.), Lin1-
Dergh MINI MADISON than.), Miller
tMinn, morse lWls.), Murdoch
MANS nelson lWls.)' Norris tNeb).
f~oinoexter tWash.), Stevenson
Mimi, Volstead (Minn.), Woods