Show 41 GA CANNON NON PLEADS FOR FORk MEMORIAL N Former i S Speaker ea k er Re Refers ers Humorously Humorously Humor Humor- to Himself and to Utahn 0 of Same Sanle Name VT GIO Jan 24 Appealing Appealing t W to the lIo so toda today to pa pass s the genato bill bUl for a J Lincoln me- me 1 orial structure In n Washington ton former Speaker esker Cannon declared that It was aion a profanation ro anai ion of ot l Lincoln's namo name to use yit ft In connection with i the promotion of or off t f ro road roid d project Thero There are certain great characters C that will wUl dwell in tho the history oC of the thet t country said Mr rr Cannon First and barely first Washington second Lincoln IAn Lin coin coln oln third thin Lee Iee a a. great man a Jr great nt general who who did his duty from his patriotic standpoint fourth Jefferson Jetterson a great man performing n. n great service for the tho republic as he saw aW his hla dutrA duty A hundred years ears from now tho the or ordinary or- or reader will recall this period r an and there will be e in tho the mouths of ot the school children n the names names of Washing Washington ton ion on Lincoln Grant Leo an and Jefferson 1 Davis PaVIa But 3 you ou u will m have havo to search the t-ho he Congressional Record and the ency- ency Gr t to find rind out about the balance f Hof fot us vs who have been speakers ers mem menu Lora of ot Congress in tho the House an and senate Take Talo air Mr r. r Cannon f for r instance 1 t vl ti I have hao boon been speaker for eight years They will wm say si say it docs does appear that there r was a a. m. m man n from Illinois b by the tho namo name of t Cannon but I dont don't know much about there was was' another man b by the name of ot Cannon In n Congress from Utah lIE It was said ald that he ho had seventeen se J wh wives s. s tf i The Tho memorial bill will be taken up t r lIn in tho the House nox next Wednesday |