Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1913-04-25
J BY Lynn Haines.

after congress. vital events like that
do not Happen Every since the
people began to realize that their ma
tional legislature was an isolated in
stitntiOn, prostituted to the purposes
of professional politicians, it has re-
qaired more and more of subtle
scheming to keep the old crowd in
control. The organization of this
new congress presented problems
such as the bosses had never faced
before. Their supremacy was threat
ened as it had not been threatened at
the; opening Of any previous session.
Yet they triumphed, almost without a
struggle.
The house of representatives is to
be the same in the Sixty-third con-
gress at is was in he Sixty-second.
That was settled on the opening day,
with the balloting for speaker and the
adoption of the old rules. Vastly more
.hsn these momentous issues were de-
eided on that occasion. The progress
sives permitted themselves to be d.
vided, unwillingly perhaps, but none
the less completely, into warning fac
tional groups; they laid down their
only effective weapon; they surren-
dered the only opportunity that will
come to them to fight effectively to
free congress from the domination of
caucus and committees.
= An Interpretation of the situation
will be somewhat easier if we pause
here to inspect the first roll call of
the session. When the time came for
mally ito ratify the Organization de-
cided upon months before by the
leaders, the democrats unanimously
supported Champ Clark for speaker.
The republicans and bull moosers d.
yided as follows:
F For Mr.. Mann, Killarney, Ander-
son, Anthony, Austin, Avis, Barch-
field, Bartholdt, Barton, Britten,
Browne, Wis, Browning, Burke, Pa,
Burke, IS. D., Butler, Calder, Camp
bell, Cramton, Curry, Davis, Mimi,
Dillon, Dunn, Dyer, Edmonds, Esch,
Fairchild, Farr, Fess, Fordney, Freer,
4 French, Gardner, Gillett, Good, Good
win, Me, Graham, Pa, Green, Iowa,
Greene, Mass, Greene, VT, Griest,
Hamilton, Mich, Hamilton, N. Y,
HaWley,., Hayes, 'Helgesen, Kinds,
Humphrey, Wash, Johnson, Utah,
Johnson, Wash, Kahn, Keister, Kelly,
8 Mich, Kennedy, R. l., Kent, Kiess, Pa,
knoWland, Kreider, LaFollette, Lang
ham, Langley, Lenroot, Lindquist,
h Mcclure, Okla, Mckenzie, tMcLaugh-
lin, madden, Manahan. Martin, S. D.,
Merrett, Miller, Mondell, Moore, Nor
gan, Okla, MORN, Moss, w. Va, Mott,
Parker, Patton Pa, Payne, Plat
& PIumley, Porter, Powers, Prouty, Rob,
erts, Mass, Roberts, New, Rogers
Scott, Sells, Shrove, Sinnett, Slemp
Sloan, Smith, Idaho, Smith, J. NJ. G..
Smith, MINI, Smith, Saml. w., Stat
3. ford, Stevenson, Stevens, Mimi
d Sutherland Switzer, Towner, Tread
way, Ware, Volstead, Wallin, Wilder
ills. iWinslow, Woods, Young, Mich
81 For Mr. Murdoch, .1S.-Bell, Cal.
bryan, Chandler, Copley, Falcooner
Einebaugh, Rulings, Kelly, Pa, LAT
n ferty, Lewis, Pa, Lindbergh, Nolan
supley, Stephens, Cal, Temple, Thorn
Il son, Ill, Walters, Woodruff.
;s8I For Mr.. Cooper GARY, Mapcs
Norton, Young, N. D.
For Mr. Nelson, cooper.
s z,8s It required about forty minutes tt
\ h take this vote in the house; it tool
$$5i# about forty weeks of prodigious politi
cal planning to make 1t what it was.
4 The system in congress-and b.
that i mean the methods by which ;
few politicians control the member
sf5 ship and activities of every session
is based upon two vicious practices
f1 partyism, and ~ the, complet
exclusion, during the critical organ
ization3 periods of the new membe
element.
Partyism, under the present cond
lions, means the dividing and .subd
Yiding of the progressives into antas
anisfic groups. 1t means not only tina
the prcgressives are kept apart, 'br
5# aat they are set to fighting, in eyer
crisis, progressive against progre
siye. at means that each party sll;.
ss@ gegregate and submerge its own pr,
sressives. ..s .s@
he new member problem is jus
as simple. More than one hnndre
ana fifty congressman entered tt
house for the first time April sevcnt
Ilese new members came fresh fro
the people, bearing a direct commi
sion To do certain things, to represel
their cons ituents along certain line
ret not one of them was gIven eve
alae smallest ch ance to work for
slange HI the conditions that maj
sae last congress the pIaything of.
feW past-nas ter oliticians. The /
Il ION Of the new congress vi
noelivered TO the minutest dets
old iii bers, which Is done eve
.Ifrnrtsli Issingg igllprailt Of 4
mol ssIIss, either their pow
gu III op rtilnity, all that the ne
III diit with only d few exec
sissfss III III t5 iii rye iIlt TIL their reSpe