Show A TE I 1 BY insurgents i SHORN OF VAT POWER AFTER sensational POLITICAL BATTLE In republicans republican and democrats democrat succeed d in removing speaker from committee on rule es out but refute refuse to declare speak phlp enship vacant I 1 laih tj after one of the most moat I 1 lansat i political battles lu ili l tory house ot of G ca cannon on saturday lost the ancient prestige and weapons wea pon pono ot that office when the allied republica insurgents and democrats took grand him not only the chairmanship of but even membership in ili he all powerful committee on rules ill chief ajeet la in his stock of power by a yae ot of to the republican la sur gents voting solidly with the democrats Demo ciata the house adopted the he resolution of mr air norris republican lot JOSEPH Q G CANNON of nebraska requiring a reorganization ion of at the rules committee increasing tta its membership from five to ten tell and declaring decia ting the speaker ineligible to membership thereon by the curiously identical vote of isilta to ISS but with a decidedly different personnel of alignment the house defeated a resolution of representative senta tive dureson burleson of texas declaring the vacant and ordering the immediate election of a successor to mr cannon the norris resolution was a aa follows there shall be a committee on rules elected by the house hitherto the committee of five like all other house committees has been appointed by the speaker consisting of ten members six of whom shall be members of the majority party the speaker shall not be a member of the committee and the committee shall elect its own chairman from its own Irl mem embers bera resolved further that within ten days after the adoption of I 1 this his resolution there shall be an election of this committee and immediately upon its election the present committee on rules shall be dis dig solved it II was upon the adoption of this resolution that alite one ot of the greatest contests in the history of the house bouse was wall waged the regular republicans were opposed to the adoption of the resolution which means I 1 the 9 practical de of the speaker tp eaker while the insurgent republicans joined with the democrats and succeeded after a bitter and prolonged fight in securing votes enough to pass jasd the th resolution when the tumult had partially subsided after the vote orl on the tha norris mao lutton had been takei take speaker cannon gained the attention of the members and made an address in which ho he declared there are two courses open opan for the speaker to pursue one is to resign and permit the new combination of democrats and insurgents to choose a speaker in harmony with its lt acts and purposes pur posea the other la Is for that combination to declare a vacancy in tile the cirice of speaker and proceed to the election of V new speaker the speaker declared chatto thatto that to voluntarily resign would be a confession confes 1 of weakness or mistake and an apology for past actions and as aa he was not conscious of at wrongdoing wrong doing had construed the rules rulea as he founder them and As aa they flad bad been construed hy by loiis lous speakers he would not resign the vote on the motion to declare the vacant showed that there was no desire upon the part 0 of the majority to change speakers but simply to eliminate the speaker from fhe the on rules kon on thursday representative norris norela introduced it A privileged resolution to change he houie hoube on rules aug augmenting men ng the membership to fifteen t en an and d el eliminating I 1 the speaker speak r ai A thir thirty y hour br session ex the liveliest 1 n recent at I 1 legislative gisla tive an annals nills followed 0 on friday rid it the house bouso adjourned and a series of 0 conferences with a view to compromise wore were started A earn coin promise measure camake ta anake the committee ten in num berand to displace future aror membership was injected y on saturday when the house convened at noon speaker cannon sus BUS I 1 pined I 1 1 n d representative dalzelle dalzells Ual Dal zella zells point il afa f order against ae the norris resolution v nbrina gilr appealed and the house voted 0 o sustain him representative noris moved the he pre lolis violis question on fel ls s resolution shutting out debate tile the norris morris resolution was voted on arid was wag sustained by the house aroll A roll call was then taken on the 9 question u 7 shall th the decision of tho the speaker p ak stand as aa the decision of the douse i u ell lind and the speaker wan over aled the norris resolution was then voted on air by the he house having beeta acen out of tile the hands of the speak speaker or lind and ghen direct 0 to o the 01 8 for division Bp cannons term expired expire 1 next march ilar cli but lt il la is persistently rumored that tat ile hi will alil reslan before that time this givets rise tu to speculation as to who will be his lit a successor the D dem em 4 ft cral rats will it is said ald advocate ail champ alark lark while the he father ot of the resold jan on which has been the bono bone 0 of f con coll mitlon for the past few da days ys laepe e s norris of nebraska Is now I 1 lii athe fhe limelight and will probably bo be a candidate but in ili the lie meantime joseph 0 heinon la Is still the speaker of t the ile deause ause though shorn ot at much of his forstr power |