The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-07
TUESDAY MARKS PASSING
OF REPUBLICAN HOUSE RULE

Washington, D. c., Mar. S1.-Tues-
day as the hands of the clock point
to the noon hour, Major Alexander
Mcdowell of Pennsylvania, clerk of
the hous of representatives in eight
congresses, win mount the desk of the
speaker to perform his last official
act He will call the house to order.
He will preside while the roll is called
and a speaker is elected.
Champ Clark will be the new speak
er and when the oath has been admin
istered to him by Representative
Henry H. Bingham of Philadelphia,
Father of the House" the last vestige
of fourteen years republican control
0 fthat body woll have vanished.
South Trimble of Kentucky will sue
ceed Major Mcdowell as clerk. The
place pays $6,500 a year. His election
is the one certainty aside from Champ
Clark and the ways and means and
rules committees this near the day of
assembling. W. H. Ryan of New
York, like Trimble, a former member
of congress, may be elected sergeant
alarms, another $6,5OO position He
has a strong competitor in Stokes
Jackson, chairman of the democratic
state committee of Indiana.
1t is proposed to plocate the Indian
ians by giving Jackson the $4,000 posi-
tion of doorkeeper. To do so will wipe
off the tentative slate Joseph Sinnot
of Virginia for doorkeeper If Vir-
ginians will stand for this, Sinnott
may have for consolation the chief
clerkship under the clerk Of the
house, a $4,000 place. The postmas-
tership of the house, $4,000 position,
is dangling between Ohio and New
York.
Despite positive statements tele-
graphed to western newspapers
Speaker Cannon has not said that he
will refuse to be candidate for the
republican caucus nomination for
speaker. But neither will he be can
didate in the active sense. He says
that there are many opposed to mis- Sc
lection for leadership, and that he pre-
fers party harmony to leadership. He
will be satisfied if there can be una
nimity of choice. If he is not chosen,
his successor in leadership will be
Mann of Illinois Cannon is holding
himself aloof from discussion and has
been putting in his time gathering and
digesting material for an anti-reciproc
ity speech.
Senator James A. Reed of Kansas
City reached Washington yesterday
for the extra session. He is accom-
panied by Mrs. Reed. They have taken
apartments at the Cairo, where Sena-
tor Warner made his Washington
home. The senator said last night he
had not had an opportunity to see any
of the democratic leaders of the SEN
ate, but that he would get in touch
with the congressional situation today.
Senator Bristow of Kansas also ar
rived in Washington last night. He
and Senator LaFollette are the only
progressive republican senators in the
city. Senator Bristow stated that a
conference of the progressives would
be held next week to discuss the sit
uation in the senate relative to the
proposed Canadian reciprocity agree
ment, tariff revision and plans for the
reorganization of the senate.
The only members of the Kansas
delegation in Washington are Repre-
sentative Campbell and Representa-
tive Mitchell, who was accompanied
by Mrs Mitchell, and his secretary,
l.. c. Haynes of Kansas City, Kans.,
arrived yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Nit
chell are at the Congress Hall Hotel
The other Kansans are expected to
arrive in time for the republican eau
Gus to be held Monday night.