Arizona republican., 1911-04-04
THE LEADER IF MINORITY
 House Republicans Agree Upon Mr. Mann
 MANY INSURGENTS ABSENT
A Harmonious Caucus Ex- cept as to the Plan of Se- lecting Minority Members
 for Committee Assign ments-Cannon's Wishes.

Washington. April 3-Representative Mann of Illinois was unanimously placed in nomination as minority can didate for speaker of the house at to- nights caucus of the republican repre- sentatives. The selection followed a vigorous nominating speech by Mir. Cannon, who. with Representative Madison of Kansas, insurgent repUbli- can. and Catlin of Missouri. escorted Mir Mann to the speakers rOstrum.
 The endorsement means that Mann will receive the republican vote of the house tomorrow and become the active head of the minority party in the house. More than a dozen insurgents were not present. Tn the afternoon the insur- gents held a meeting at which forty six were either present or accounted for
 For more than four hours the cau- GUS discussed party leadership and the method of filling committee assign ments Many Of those who are op- posed to Mir Mann did not attend There was no concerted action. how ever. toward disagreeing from the gen. eral program.
 Among the insurgents who were ab- sent were: Norris of Nebraska. Mur- dock of Kansas. LenrOOt and Cooper of Wisconsin. H.aughen and Hubbard of Iowa. Anderson of Missouri and Kent of California Several ether in- surgents had not re.ched the city.
 The proceedings were hal mOnious ex- cept as t0 the method of selecting the minority members of the standing committees of the house. Speaker Can non strongly advocated the selection by the minority floor leader. He reviewed his eight years as a speaker and point ed out the satisfactory results which he believed had been obtained by plac- ing upon one man the responsibility of selecting the members of the commit tees.
 Mr. Madison of Kansas advocated the plan of having a committee on commit tees.
 A substitute calling for com mittee of seven republicans to act as a committee on committees was of fered by Mir. Good of Iowa. The de- bate over the committee provision continued two and a half hours. There Were many advocates of a committee on committees in addition to insur- gents. The caucus was marked by the first protest of the republican minority against the democrats divid- ing up the committee places. Mir Mann presented a lengthy protest against increasing the members of the fifteen leading committees with out prOpOrtiOnately increasing the number of places given the minority. He said this would be an unfair ap- portionment and contrary to the rules of the past congress
 He declared that whenever the membership of the committees had been increased in the past 1t has been customary to give the minority a fair proposition.
 Mir. Dwight was not again nom mated for the republican whip. The caucus endorsed all the eleven off cers who served in the republican house. None of these will be re- elected. however. except the chaplain. Rev. Henry Couden.
 Following the nomination of Mir. Mann as the new candidate for speaker he was escorted to the caucus room by Messrs. Cannon. Madison and Catlin. Mir. Mann was received with rOusing cheers.
 After lengthy debate the caucus voted down a plan similar to the demo- cratic method making appointments through a special committee. It is placed in the hands of MT Mann with to name the republican menI- bers of standing committees.
 substitute plan calling for a spe- ciaI committee was voted down but the republicans present were left free to take whatever action they desire in the house in supporting or opposing the rule providing for a committee on