Show HOUSE RUN BY SPEAKER RUNS completely AWAY WITH legislative PROCEDURE HE BREAKS ALL PREVIOUS REC IN THE DISPATCH OF BUS INESS i washington feb 12 speaker cannon today took the bit in his teeth and ran completely away with legislative procedure incidentally he broke all previous ricorda in the dispatch of private pension bills under ahls 33 of these measures ot relict passed by tho house in nearly tho ot this time was consumed in committee of the whole the passed the bills en bloc under consent which the speaker himself asked for about half bt the bills were disposed 0 under this request those with amendment when objection was temporarily pora rily made tho speaker plainly showed hla disappointment of dragging the proceedings the objection was withdrawn whereupon the remaining bills were declared passed without even the formality of having the clerk read their numbers when the committee of the whole had taken favorable action on private pension bills speaker cannon inaugurated augu rated an entirely new procedure to expedite their passage tho usual custom haa been for the clerks to report each bill by number the speaker then putties the question cpr its engrossment and third reading when the title was again reported b the clerk the question on the passage of tho bill was then put by the speaker and the result or the vote announced which invariably was tor tho passage ot the bill today speaker cannon followed this procedure with the first bill he then suddenly stopped and addressing the house made this explanation A large number of bill have been reported from the committee of the whole with the recommendation that they do pass without amendment gentlemen are aware that the committee ot the whole has had tor tome hours bills under consideration Is there a desire apon the part of any member that any ona ot these bills recommended without amendment should be considered separately pausing tor a moment sir cannon continued the chair propounds that query with a view to asking the house for unanimous consent that all these respective bills be considered as read the third time and passed upon the reading of their number by the clerk after another pause the speaker repeated with great deliberation and emphasis on each word la there ab another elapsed when the announcement eme amid applause the chair acara none over bills were disposed of in about five minutes the bills with amendments were then reported when the chair put the feame question mr fanley objected with the statement that be did ayt consider this a mode of procedure tor a legislative body tha objection is perfectly proper cannon this method of procedure could ip aly be done by unanimous consent an d the ch alpha be envery careful ty ully the house and it ts aulta within the power of any member to object then with a look pt he concluded objection Is made the clerk will report the first bill the first ball contained an amendment and when the cerk announced that fact the speaker inquired factitiously tiou sly does the gentleman from south carolina desire to hear the amendment read no replied mr fanley welt continued aha speaker the gentleman does not know what tho nature of the amendment is neither does the chair he then instated on the reading of the entire amendment and nhen this was done his announcement of the third reading and passage of this bill was noticeably slow in the meantime chairman of the pension committee aad several of mr finless Fin leys colleagues went to his scat to remonstrate with him for the objection after a few minutes mr robinson of indiana interrupted the proceed ings and said he to repeat th previous request tor unanimous consent the speaker put the request again and no objection was made whereupon alio entire remaining bills were declared passed without even reading their numbers and all the previous records 0 pension legislation by the house were completely eclipsed mr grosvenor of ohio made what lie declared with some heat was his last attempt to get aday set tor the consideration of the bill creating a joint commission to consider tho question of ship subsidy his request was that this measure bo made a special order for february 20 after several objections had been made and withdrawn mr hardwick lck of Geor glar objected because mr Bartlett bad objected when the request was made previously and was not time at p ro the adjourned until monday 1 |