Show SPEAKER CANNON GIVES A DINNER M a r Was in Honor Bonor of the Gridiron Club an Organization of Wash WashIngton Ington Correspondents SKITS SKIT SONGS SPEECHES M N GUESTS PRESENT arch 1 Cannon tonight gave gae a dInner to the GrIdIron c iu the famous organization of Ij correspondents Whose guest b bi bas ha been on many occasions during the tw past years A b d com oman was invited to meet t th and nearly guests assembled iu itt the beautifully decorated room of the New Willard hotel at th nv tC of t the e speaker speake It waS vas not dinner although seme Gridiron methods were intro The rhe rules of the club as to Phort speeches which are never pub werd Invoked di while skits and tongs hi 1 lh the club entertained the peal rs A number ot or Very good speeches peeches made The club p presented to Sp speaker er Cannon a large 1 decorated and hIm hirn that white no one could be made th honorary member of the dub Ul grIdIron which he received meant that he was its best DIstinguished Guests Among the guests were Pre Vice President Fairbanks S Root Shaw Taft and Wll WI Associate Justice Hal Ian Sir Morl mer Durand the British ambas ambassador ador Baron Earon Rosen the am ambas bas ador Cardinal Gibbons former PresIdent LevI P Morton Ed Janes tames James presIdent of o Ill Illi Illinois nois hols Theodore P chairman ot the canal corn com iD IL H GearY resident presIdent of the Stool corporation Paul ot th the Equitable Life Assur Robert Robort Mather Rock Island railroad Stuyvesant Fish flit DU hots Central E l fl f Harriman Southern Pacific railroad Tames James Spey Speyer er No Neit York Oscar S Straus New NewYork NewYork York Charles Charie W Needham George Washington univ I George R Pock Peck ChIcago Milwaukee St Paul John S Runnells Pullman companY and twenty newspaper edi publishers and writers twenty States senators and nearly sIx sIxt sixty t ty prominent members of the house of r resen |