Show SPEAKER CANNONS LAMENT LAMEN Theres something amusing in the way Uncle Joe Cannon takes the son sen senates ates action on the statehood bill and Philippine tariff bill Hear him Do they the senate leaders think the house was born In the wood to be scared by an owl Also Br r Jim Watson of Indiana wants to know if the house ivill stand the it has received at the hands of the senate BeIng a long way from Washington possibly the situation may not be vis visible visible ible clearly but we opine the house will do what it that is mighty utile little Under the established by the Republican party members of the house have about as much voice In Inthe Inthe the go government emment as a lot of little school schoolboys schoolboys boys They do what they are told to todo todo do by the speaker and do it when and how he pleases If he nods they snore and when he takes snuff they sneeze It Is only natural under the regime now In vogue that the action of the house should be regarded with con contempt tempt or entirely Ignored by the son sen senate ate There is no discussion In the house houseworth houseworth worth considering seriously the ml mi minority Is chok choked d off and the majority dominated by the rules committee With all the power of a czar and the contempt for others opinions which an autocrat can feel fee Uncle Joe has so ruled rued his subjects that neither the country the senate nor the mom mem bers ers of the b house use themselves can have much respect for it And until it once more assumes Its proper prerogatives and presumes to do a little thinking on its own account it will be scared by bythe bythe the hoot of an owl 01 slapped In the face by the senate and kicked out biennial biennially IJ ly by a disgusted it ought to be beTo beTo To return to the main question To date dale the house has done nothing which we of the weSt can regard with any degree of pride or pleasure It passed the PhilippIne tariff bill without proper discussion and trIed to ruin the most important new agricultural Industry of the west The s nate enate killed thc thET bill bili Then the house passed the joint state statehood hood bill under th speakers lash and without even a ch chance nce to vote on sep separation separation of the territories The he senate sanate amended the bill and sent it back In both cases the senate has the sentiment of the west behind It It If the speaker like it ft the west does |