The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-08
HOUSE HONORS ''JOE"' CANNON.
 AGED 80 YEARS
Former Speaker Is Recipient of FeIicitatiOnS From
 Colleagues.

| Washington, May 8-Party lines
 disappeared and old scores were for gotten by the House Saturday when, during the first hour of it's regular
 session, it joined in paying tribute to Representative Cannon, of Illinois, the l former Speaker, who was 80 years old Sunday. Never before in the his- tory of the House had an hour of the working session been set aside to
 honor a living member.
 | One of the original progressives, Representative Cooper, of Wisconsin, presided during the greater part of the ceremonies. One of the original revolters against the so-called Can non ru1e' for years he fought the then Speaker but today he presided as friend.
 Speaker Clark in a humorous and friendly speech, termed MT. Cannon one of the ''top notcher class of men tai pugiists.''
 He also wrote into the record for posterity the statement that once dur ing debate, with his own eyes he saw MT. Cannon perform the unsua1 feat of describing a complete circle on one heel
 Speaker Cannon owes it to him self and to his countrymen to write a book of "reminiscences, Speaker Clark said, Jobs vengefu1 declara- tionP oh that mine adversary had
 written a book to the contrary not withstanding. Evidently the man of T.z did not have in his minds eye Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson when he gave voice to that far Iesounding and malicious deSfre."
 Still carrying himself as straight kasNan Indian and as ruddy checked as a school girl, MT. Cannon marched down the center aisle of the House and delivered Nan address of apprecia- tio1i, filled with "reminiscences of rs,% oaI- 1A shadows of Blaine. lRaldel1, Ben Butler, George E Pow q, Sunset Cox. Pig Iron" Kelley and a~score of other contemporaries Of MT Can non to the halls where once they serv- ed MT. Cannon was 'qId.- k to observe the non-partisan character of the oc- casion and his opening words were :il appreciation of it.
 errhis is a sample of the partisan ship of the House. he said. "I can say with the psalmist, The lines have fallen unto me in pleasant placesf and of both sides of the House arp more inclined to accept the plain evidence of fact that the popular and pie turesoue fiction which divides this body into partisan groups on all questions shuts out personal rela- senfatfves regardless of Npartytto work out in legislation the greatest good to the greatest number.
 Representative Rodenberg, of Illi- nois, referred to theNcourage of MT. Cannon in the stormy days when he was Speaker.
 ..Itds but human to err,' he said, and Uncle Joe has at all tin.es been intensely human; but no man, living or dead, ever saw him lower his colors or hoist the white flag of surrender
 MT. Cannon now is closing his goth term in Congress He ca.ne here dur ing the 43rd Congress and since that time has been defeated twice, once in 1892 and again in 1912. One other man who served in the forty third Congress, General Isaac Sher- wood, of Ohio, is in the present Con gress. His term of service has been much shorter than that of MT. Gam non, however. Despite his years. Mr. Cannon still takes an active part in debate and smokes as many cigars as ever.