The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-24
'lLLINOISANS TO
WAGE CAMP AIeN
DURING SUMMER
Morse ADOPTS Three-Day Recess
4 kRule; Intervention In Strike
Becomes Possibility.

uois congressmen are preparing
4 tHfs week for the biennial pre-
election pilgrimage back to the
down-state districts where they
win seek the endorsement OF their
constituents On the work OF the
present session Of congress.
- A period Of three day recesses
will probably begin about Jaly 1.
binder this arrangement. the house
will remain technically in session
!. iyf1t all of the members who have
fight on their hands in the fall eiec-
lions will be enabled to devote them
I sselses to their campaigns. More
fortunate members OF the house,
who have little opposition, VIII
meet every three days 10 read tne
house Journal and mark time wnlie
the senate iisposes Of the tarin and
the bonus.
Among the first of the down
state Illinois congressmen to leave
washington will be Representatives
Loren Wheeler, Springfield. and
- William A. Rodenberg, East 81.
I,ouis. The political situation at
home. however, has nothing TO do
:. with the departure OF either-of these
members. Rodenberg is not a can
didate for reelection, but later in the
44summer he will take the stump for
- state Treasurer Ed Miller who is
-. fhe Republican nominee in the
Twenty-second Illinois district
( Representative Wheeler's family
!. has lust returned to Springfield,
= and the congressman will leave
hare shortly to Join them.
Representative Guy l. Shaw,
Besrdstown, probably faces the
= strongest Democratic opposition OF
any down-state member, but he is
manning to remain in Washington
- until late in July. Henry T. Ralney,
: .Carrouton. who represented the
twentieth district in congress IL
s. wears. ia again the nominee against
+ shaw Raiuey is already making
mn active canvass of the district,
ana has announced stumping tour
ON which he will attack the tarin'
a. the Republican revenue bill, ana IN
general the record OF the Harding
administration.
Il Representative Allen F. Moore,
Montieello, recently spent seVeral
weeks in the Nineteenth dlstrict IN
a conference with his aides ana Will
s probably remain in Washington
during most OF the month OF guy;
He will make an active canvass Oh
the district Just before the NoVem'
Der election.
s. Er-Coyernor Richard Yates, now
,ranresentatiye-a plans to
leave washington within about ten
DAYS start on a lecture tour which
- will take him to Nebraska, Iowa, ana
other states west of the, Mississippi.
He will not commence his I'M
= nois campaign for reelection unui
X September or October.
Among the down-state members
who are now absent are Cllnord
ireland, Peoria. and Charles e. Ful-
Ier Belyidere, and Ira c. Copiey,
aurora. ireland and Copley, both
cf whom were beaten in the April
primary, have been absent from
the capital ever since that time, Cop
n lev having sailed for Europe, while
Fl ireland motored to the Pacific coast
y TO attend the Shriners' convention.
Ireland spoke a few days ago IN
Portland. Ore, and IT has been an
nounced here that he will leave TINS
week on his return overland 10
Washington. 80
"JTncIe Joe" Cannon. Danville,
will be one of the last of the 1lli-
noisans to leave Washington this
summer. il was announced here to-
dav having spent more than half
of his Sc years in Washington, the
former speaker appears unmlndtul
of the torrid summer heat OF the
canitaI. A little later, however,
"JIncIe Joe" will seek a quiet haunt
along the New England shore, where
no can rest up preparatory to the
December session, which is TO De
his last.
Representatives William ]. Ora
ham. Aledo, and John G, Mckenzie,
Elizabeth. also expect to remain here
until midsummer.
The possibility of federal inter
yention in the coal strike doomed
more strongly here, today, as the
result of the clash at Herrin. VIII
hanson county, between the coal
miners and southern Illinois oper-
ators.
REPRESENTATIVE Edward E. Deni-
son. Marion, congressman from the
Tweuty-fifth district. in which the
uprising occurred. is being kept ad-
vised by wire of developments in
the Herrin coal field. but refused
TODAY to make any public comment
on the situation.
other members OF congress. how
ever. frankly stated the view that
the outbreak of open warfare be-
tween the miners and operators in
Illinois will hasten action by the
federal government to promote a
settlement of the strike.
This was the precise position TAX
en- here today in an exclusive IN
terview by Representative Oscar
Bland, Republican. Indiana, who is
a member of the House committee
on labor. Bland is the author of
the resolution under which the Ia,
Dor committee has just completed
an investigation of the coal indus
try, directing the hearing before \
which John L. Lewis, Springfield, !,
head of the mine workers and lead
ing operators from Illinois and 9TH
er states appeared to present their
views.
The unfortunate situation in
Illinois shows that conditions i
growing out OF the strike are be-
coming more acute and, TO my
mind. clearly indicate thai the
time has come when the governs
ment must act to effect settle
nent between the miners and the
operators. Representative Bland