The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1912-01-18
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
Trend of Affairs, Political and
Otherwise, at the Seat of
National Government
Special To The News

Representative George w. Nor
ris has the distinction of being the
first congressman to make a dent
in the solid front the democratic
majority of the House has been
able to muster on nearl v all occa
sions. After as neat scrap as
has been pulled off this session the
Nebraskan took eighty-one demo-
Gratis of the progressive kind,
away from Leader Underwood,
they having joined with the twen-
ty-six progressive republicans in
attempting to defeat the placing
of Representative Campbell of
Kansas on the Committee on Rules
to succeed former Representative
Madison of Kansas. Mr.. Norris
made it plain that his position was
not one of personal opposition to
Mr.. Campbell, or Republican
Leader Mann, who was responsible
for the naming of Mr.. Campbell,
but be fought, as he always has,
against the system of the caucus
through which power Mr.. Mann
controlled the nomination. The
placing of Mr.. Campbell on the
committee prevailed by a vote of
167 to 1O7. While the occurrence
marked division between the two
branches of the republican party
that has often been in evidence
heretofore, yet the real concern
felt at the Capital resulting from
the clash, is that for the first time
since he assumed the party leader
ship Mr.. Underwood was unable
to control his forces, indicating
that possibly he is not, after all,
the real Moses, destined to lead
the long cared democratic animal
out of the wilderness.
The Committee on Expenditures
in the Interior Department was
before the House asking for an
appropriation for junket among
the White Earth Indians of Min
nesota, and for further cash to
make another side trip to the
Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. A
number of congressman declared
that the democratic members of
the committee were wandering
afar from the legitimate scope of
the work laid out for them. Mr..
Humphrey, of Washington, child
ed the majority for abandoning
their "Dick- to- Dick" episode. Mr..
Burke, of South Dakota, declared
that he does not oppose any in
vestigation that any committee of
this House may in good faith un-
dertake, but | do insist that these
investigating committees, or rath-
er the expenditures committee,
should be kept within the scope of
the rules of the House of Repre-
sentatives and the resolution num-
Der 1O3, which was adopted by
this House, which does not enlarge
the jurisdiction of these expendi-
lures committees one iOta."
The name of Senator Cummins
of Iowa, persistently finds place
in the political gossip of the Cap
ital as a probability on the presi-
dental ticket of 1912. For many
weeks the thermometers have been
specializing on the effect of putting
out a boom for Taft and Cum
mins," but more recently there
has been a renewal of the talk for
Cummins for first place, it being
urged that he stands for every
thing that Senator La Toilette
advocates, and would not only en-
tirely satisfy the republican pro-
gressives, but would at the same
time be very satisfactory to the
regulars, with whom he has for
many years been on very good
terms. OF course the Cummins
movement does not loom large, as
the Taft and La Toilette campaigns
hold the center of attraction. But
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