Show CANNON DEFEATED BY insurgents A SHORN OF VAST POWERS AFTER sensational POLITICAL BATTLE I 1 insurgent ne urgent republicans and democrats succeed in removing speaker from committee on rules but refuse to declare vacant washington after one of the most 6 sensational political battles in tile history of the ilia house bouso of representatives speaker joseph 0 cannon on oil saturday lost loat the ancient prestige and weapon of that office when the allied Ro republican publican insurgents uta and democrats took from him not only the clifair chairmanship nian or of but oven even membership in the all powerful committee on rules niles the chlof chief asset in ilia his stock of oc power by a voto vote of to tho the republican insurgents voting solidly with tho the democrats the house adopted ill the resolution of mr air norris republican JOSEPH G CANNON of at nebraska requiring a reorganization ot at tho the rules committee increasing its membership irom from five to ten andt and declaring the speaker ineligible to tov membership thereon by the curiously identical vote of to but with a decidedly different personnel of align alignment inq n t the libuse house defeated A a resolution of representative senta tive burleson Bu of texas declaring the vacant and ordering the immediate election of a successor to mr cannon the norris resolution was as an follows there shall bo be a committee on elected by the h house use hitherto the committee of five like all other house committees has been appointed by the speaker consisting of ton members six of whom shall bo be members oi of the ilia majority party the speaker shall not be a member of the committee and the committee shall elect its own chairman from its own members resolved further that within ten days after the adoption of this resolution there ahall bo be an election of this committee and immediately upon Us its election tho the present committee on rules shall be bb dissolved it was upon the adoption of this resolution that one of the greatest contests in the history of the house was waged the regular republicans wore were opposed to the adoption of tho ilia resolution which menns means the practical dethroning de of the speaker while tho the insurgent republicans joined with the democrats and succeeded after a b itter bitter and prolonged fight in in securing votes enough to pass the tha resolution when tho the tumult had partially subsided after the vote on the norris orals resol resolution ution had been taken speaker cannon gained tile the attention or of the members and made an address in which he declared there are two courses open for the speaker to pursue ono Is to resign and permit the new combination of democrats and insurgents to choose a speaker in harmony with its acts and purposes tho the other Is tor for that combination to declare a vacancy in the office of speaker and proceed to the election of a new speaker the speaker declared that to voluntarily resign would be a confession of weakness or mistake and an apolo apology gy for past actions and as he was not con conscious of wrongdoing wrong doing had construed tho the rules as lie he found them and as they had been construed by previous speakers ep eakers he would not resign the vote on the motion to declare the vacant showed that there was no desire upon the part of the majority to change speakers but comply to eliminate the speaker from the tha committee on rules on thursday representative norris morris introduced n privileged resolution to chanow the house committee on rules augmenting tho the membership to fifteen and eliminating tho ilia speaker A thirty hour session Bes the liveliest in recent legislative annals followed on friday tile tho house adjourned and a series of conferences with a view to compromise started A corn com promise measure to malio make the committee ten in number and to displace future speakers brorn membership was waa rejected on saturday when the house con at noon I 1 JS speaker cannon sustained dalzelle dalzells Dal zells point ot of order against the norris resolution norris appealed and tile the house voted 0 0 o sustain him representative norris moved the previous lous question on his resolution shutting abutting out debate the norris resolution was voted on and was sustained by the house A roll call was waa then taken on tile tho question shall the ilia decision of the speaker stand as tho the decision of the house and tile the speaker was overruled the norris resolution was then voted on by the house having been taken out of ilia hands of the speaker find and given direct to the representatives alvea for division speaker cannons term expires next march but it Is persistently rumored that lie ha will resign before that time this gives rise to speculation as to who will be his successor the democrats will it Is IB said advocate champ dark clark while the father bather of the resolution which lias has been the bone of contention for the past few days norris of nebraska Is now in ili the limelight and will probably bo be a candidate but in ili the meantime joseph G cannon Is still the he speaker of the house though shorn of much of his former power |