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Show WITH A GRIM SMILE OF SATISFACTION "UNCLE JOE" SHOWS HIS POLITICAL ENEMIES THAT HE I COULD "COME BACK." 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Spenkor Cannon had his hour of triumph in the hemsc todav in winning the first important political maneuver of the present session of congress. "Badly battered In the three days' storm that -swept the house last March, tho speaker "came back" in u way that brought a grim smile of satisfaction sat-isfaction to his countenance anJ left his enemies, the insurgents, dlsconi-fltted. dlsconi-fltted. Majority Sustain Speaker. Tho speaker today was sustained by a large majority on a ruling Identical Iden-tical with tho one he made last March, when, the houso overruled his decision through a combination of In-surgent In-surgent ilopuhlicans and Democrats. On the eve of their return to power, tho Democrats voted to sustain the ruling of (ho chair. Tlic insurgents twenty-seven of litem slood by their guns and fought tho speaker bravely In a lost cause. It was on the point as to whether a proposed "amendment to tho rules, offered from the floor, constituted a question of high constitutional privilege, privi-lege, that the storm broke. It was precisely this question that called out tho "revolution" of last March, when 1 Representative Norrls of, Nebraska offered of-fered nn amendmont providing for a rulos committee of fifteen members to bo elected by tho house, instead of three members appointed by tho speaker Ruled Resolution Out of Order. Speaker Cannon ruled tho Norrls resolution out of order. Today Representative Rep-resentative Fuller of lllnols offered a resolution ainondlng tho nilo relating to the dlschnrge of committees from the consideration or bills. It was purely technical. A point of order was raised agaiust It, and the speaker, declaring de-claring he would Ignoro the precedent set by ho house last March when It overruled his ruling In the Norrls case, held that the Fuller resolution was not privileged. ' An appeal from tho chair was Immediately Im-mediately taken by a regular Republican, Repub-lican, Mr. Gaines of West Virginia, who demanded a yea and nay voto. The speaker was sustained by 2C3 to B3. Sneaker Cannon's ruling was delivered de-livered in his most Impressive manner. man-ner. He gesticulated at times with tho gavel clutched in his left hand. Again he would pause, put down the gavel and speak almost in a whisper. Tho attention was such, however, that ho could be heard In tho far corners of the gallery. Had Resolution Read in Full. To point the similarly of the question ques-tion raised today and the one raised laBt March, tho speaker had the Norrls Nor-rls resolution read In full, together with an extract from the journal of the house giving the details of tho fight that followed and that ovorlhrew tho speaker. He also had Tead extracts ex-tracts from the remarks then made by Champ Clark and Representative Underwood "The chair," he said, "would have no difficulty In promptly ruling in harmony har-mony with all the precedents so far as the chair is able to ascertain, from tho beginning of this house In Ita sittings sit-tings under the constitution except one. That precedent was made In the last session of the present congress upon a resolution precisely similar In principle to this." Tho speaker said that under the "great parliamentary reforms" of last March there is still no way under the rules to amend the rules except by revolution If we are to tako the word and vote of the gentlemen in the houso last session, constituting fonhe time being a majority of tho houBO. Majority Have the Power. "Now tho chair desires to say in this connection,'' he continued, "that it Is within the power of the house, acting by a majority, to do anything that a majority votes for, having complete com-plete control in the premises", whether justified by tho fixed law of the land, the constitution or otherwise There ! was a way, however, without violating 1 either the letter or the Bplrit of tho j constitution, without violating a rule I of the house, by which a majority of this house, when tho precedent was made, might have worked its 'will, j "But the minorty of tho houso sub-I sub-I stantlally acting together, and reln-. reln-. forced by a minority of the majority, I made a new majority, and that ficw I majority, under tho leadership of the , gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Clark), worked a revolution. Now, that could have been accomplished by a majority majori-ty driving tho speaker from the committee com-mittee on rules, declaring Ihe place vacant and electing some new member mem-ber who would work tho will of the majority, but that course was not pursued. House is in Good Temper. "However, tho houso Is now In good temper. There Is no election pending pend-ing in the near futuic. The great ' press of the country and the great t leaders are quiet. W are not excited. ex-cited. I "The chair declines to follow the judgment or the house at this last session of this congress, under which it made the precedent, and In making this decision the cliar makes It with the highest respect for the house, because be-cause the present occupant of tho chair, after nearly forty years of service, ser-vice, has the highest respect for the llouso and lias no desire now or In tho future, by voice, vote or ruling, to favor fa-vor any rules of procedure which will thwart or unduly embarrass the house In working Its will. "The chair, therefore, In effect appeals ap-peals to the houso from a decision of tho same house, made In great ox-cltoment, ox-cltoment, when tho waves or partisanship partisan-ship were high, doing so alter the wind has ceased and the bellows have passed away and tho sea Is serenely bluo Sustains Point of Order. "The chair, thcrororc, sustains tho point of order." In the course of the debate that preceded the voto, tho Republican members taunted the Democrats unceasingly un-ceasingly for their change of front. The houso was in its gayest mood, and In the three hours that tho fight lasted there was an almost continuous continu-ous gale of laughter. Charged with inconsistency. Representative Repre-sentative Fitzgerald of New York, Sno of the Democratic leaders in tile rules I fight, retorted that for the sako of consistency he did not propose to ho foolish. When Champ Clark of Missouri, slated to succeed Speaker Cannon, voted to sustain tho chnlr on tho same point of order which furnished tho basis for the successful insurgent campaign last March, the Republicans broke Into a storm of applause Thought Speaker Was Right. Mr Underwood of Alabama Joined Mr. Fitzgerald In frankly admitting that he thought tho speaker was right In his ruling last March, and that he ruled in lino with the precedents of the house. "But," said Mr Underwood, "we voted to overrule the speaker because wo thought that the time had come for a revolution and for the majority of tho house to express its will. At that time there was reason to helievo that tho ruleB commltteo was trying |