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Show liiliTT ! sim place III Not Permit Use I of Bis Name. ! U He Is Pleased With ?)ob He Now Has, and 1 Wants No Other, Hfcer Is All-Powerful in Matter of National legislation, and Uncle-ff Uncle-ff Joe Knows a Good Thing. TWICAGO, 1 Speaker Joe .Cannon's friends hare and else-j else-j Vhere have been Instructed to do jail' In their power to head off the ML of the speaker for second place Khe Republican ticket. . It Is paid of the most powerful men In jfousc have been 'forced by under, Kio effect such an organization, or fallh with him. Ho is almost Bvni not have the Vice-Presidency tall not have the vice-presidency tr any considerations. Uncle Joe's Kd Insist that he must consent to K presiding ofllcer of the Republl- Katlonal convention, but the speak-Tirlsc speak-Tirlsc In his generation, and has an-Kct an-Kct that he will not lake the K, ami that he will not bo to Chlco-Et Chlco-Et all dining convention week un-Wlt un-Wlt can be guaranteed that Plait's flrmance at Philadelphia will not be Bated. The speaker has passed word n frlendE Uiat the boom for him Ke Vice-Presidency must be stamp-Hut stamp-Hut forthwith. He does not want Mi Vice-President, has a much better me already, likes hla Job, and Is not jKu4 to go into honorable retire--t merely to give some of the as- statesmen In the House a chance Ken Into bis shoes. K; Speaker Is All-Powerful. w centralization of power in the of the speaker, which began with Bu 3. Reed under th operation Be rules he created, lias progressed Krolnt where the executivo ofllcer Bm Houss practically Irdlcatcs legls-K. legls-K. He possesses more than the Krwer of the President, because Bin create while the President can Bfotbld, and this latter power Is es-Wlr es-Wlr unusual and distinctly limited. B? President's functions are purely Btlve, -while the speaker of tho Be baa vested in him a curious mix-Bpf mix-Bpf executive, legislative and Jufll- Eer tho present system not! a bill k considered In the House of Repetitive."), Rep-etitive."), not a man con be recog-not recog-not a thing be done without the -B co-operation of the Speaker. ijBWrmore, there Is a vast section of BfUon which must under the con-'(Bgm con-'(Bgm originate In the House. The (er branch of Congress, therefore, Hwltwlf much more powerful than Wutc, and the Speaker, even if BFlia were the same, would wield Ie4ter power than the Vlce-Presi-L0 President pro tempore of jSpeaker appoints all committees .W House, He possesses unlimited ?M 01 recognition of members. His tWR ?n P?lnts of order can be up3et vu.n;clse short of a revolution in ?p.trt; ln Plnt of fact. leBls-ImvJ? leBls-ImvJ? lhe Houce. oven down to the IKf lf detal1' la outned and ar-P ar-P jor la the Speaker's private of- Vm not on 1,16 fl0r of the House JM-President a Nonentity. !ll!1,tr,end of thc capltol con-mfm con-mfm cntlrel" different. The pre- 6r thc TU,CS- H s merely TP,?rt of the legislative ma- - ia"? ,be Ranged from TJta lthout Interfering in tho JBSts S Wlth lhe bualne3 of t'1Jrhen i1 Ice-President has IRhn "?.nU nflue"ce. This was i mTt v' HobaJ-t. but it was due Bl erwnal qualities and not at all Ka MUrrOUndh,ff th0 Nce. He n raan ?f afralrs years, u t Ct; 01 11,0 natioual ilBwtV,m?clMely a9sodated with TKaL 'emont- ard poseessed 'ESS na0rtP,riBidCnt "cKlnley to 1pfi?b.V .JT00" He Probably t more W "? ,nflentlal had W in Z Sentor r chairman Ktia,0"?' cmmlttee. His Vico-to Vico-to 9Laiu? waa not n Itself re-I re-I HoSa trcw- visits to thc IK e Tom Reed Anry. !aEne A i?ket wlh McKlnley the Z U8ly ful' de- 4 rS hostility between thc lwer than ew.ha Wou,a havo Bu etBhQ"any other man in the MlIdom VnS? ,postblo excep- "tor Ylct.p" a Possible candl-cy candl-cy of V jny other man to llBfPter tn ; SL ,10tlcm of giving Mflaate, K mcir r the United |