Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-12
tnsurgent Republicans Of
House Bested by Regulars.
DEMOCRATS DIVIDE VOTE
Election to Fill Vacancy in the Com
mite on Rules.
RIGHTS OF MINORITY LEADER
Chairman Underwood and Others
Contend for Supremacy of Prece-
dent in Making Selections.


The insurgent republicans Of the House
are much chagrined at their failure yes
terday to bring about the defeat of Mi
nority Leader Mann's Recommendation for
the election OF Representative Philip
Campbell Of Kansas to the vacancy on the
rules committee caused by the death, dur
Ing the summer recess, of Representative
Madison Of the same state, Mr. Madison
was an insurgent. Mr.. Campbell is q
regular and has the reputation of being
something of a reactionary.
The insurgents who stirred up a row in
the Sixty-first Congress by combining with
the democratic side and putting through
several rules reforms, hung together yes
/ terday, and on their proposition to SUBJ
stitute the name Of Representative Victor
Murdoch for that OF Mr.. Campbell had
the support of eighty-one democrats who
refused to follow Majority Leader Under
wood in standing by the nomination OF
Campbell.
The regular republicans. who secured
the election Of their candidate through
the assistance of Mr.. Underwood, are
Jub1lant that the democratic party WASH t
unit on the proposition, and say that
Mr.. Underwood now knows what it is
to have an instruction on his hands
They predict that yesterdays fight was
just forerunner Of rows to come in
| the ranks of the House democracy.
Views of Democrats.
This seems a rather wide view to take
OF yesterdays performance, however in
| asmuch as many of the democrats who
voted contrary to Mr.. Underwood's adj
vice say today that no great issue was
involved and that. thinking Minority
Leader Mann had treated the republi-
can progresaves unfairly in rep.aoing
one OF them with a reacuOnary, they
| had simply voted their personal convic-
tons on the subject. Most of them
didn't agree with Mr.. Underwood that
any principle of importance was involved
| in the Endorsement OF the minority lead
ers selection of one Of his own strength
or that the effect of the vote ON the ques-
| ton, whichever way 1t went, would be
nything but transient.
The motion made by Mr.. Norris to
substitute the name of Representative
Murdoch for that of Mr.. Campbell was
rejected by a vote of 107 to 1877. Inn
mediately thereafter Mr.. Norris moved
Washington, an insurgent. he elected
to succeed the late Mr.. Madison on
the Hardwick special sugar committee.
This motion was defeated, 1877 to 81.
ton to the fact that the republican
caucus called following the converting
Of the first session Of the Sixty-secOnd
Congress. had directed him to make the
minority committee assignments
Mr.. Underwood's Position.
Majority Leader Underwood had the
| dorsement of Mr.. Mann's nomination of
Campbell:
"For number of years the demo-
| House, when the republicans were in
control. that We should have the right
to select and name our own committee
places. When this House was organ
| lied we conceded to the republican side
Of the House the right to name the
revision. SO that we might balance the
| committee. At the direction OF the
democratic, caucus / notified the gentle
man from Illinois that his side of the
House could fill the committee places,
either by their caucus or in the man.
ner they saw fit. The republican eau
| Gus. instead OF selecting their commit
| tee places by a committee on commit
! rs we do. determined that they desired
| to have their selections made by their
own leader as representing the repub-
lican party.
Now 1 say as long as they present
| men who are honest, who are capable
of filing the positions on their side Of
| the House, the responsible head of the
republican party, responsible because
| he Is ordered to do SO by his caucus
and with the authority of his party, is
republican side. just as IL we were in
the minority and / was the minority
leader / would demand the unequivO-
cable right of my party to name the
places If I were acting by authority
| of my party so that / do not enter
gentlemen. The gentleman from Kan
sas Is my personal friend and has been
| for many years, but believe right now
the correct position for every democrat
on the floor of this House is to recog-
nize in the leadership of the gentle
man from Illinois what we have al
ways demanded as our right on this
| side of the House, and that is that the
recognized authority Of the democratic
party should have the right to name
the men to fill the minority places.
Republican Leaders Right.
IT think it is our duty to say that
| the recognized head Of the republican
party has the right to fill the places.
Now, we prefer and think it is more
| in accord with democratic doctrine, more
| In accord with our views Of the stu
alton, for our caucus to select the men.
| The republican party thinks it is moro
in accord with their doctrine that their
leader should select the men. That is
| a question not for US to determine. but
| for them to determine. We are re-
sponSible to the country for the posi-
ton we take in selecting our commit
tees. They are responsible to the coun-
| try for the position they take in NAM
| ing their committeeman in the House
and the only right that we claim for
the democratic party to supervise their
selection is that they shall name honest
and capable men to fill the positions
on the committees. Now; there the, , can be, be
no question of that KIND between the
I think it is our duty to support the
nomination made by the gentleman from
Illinois,
Use FOR BELvOIR PROPERTY.