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Show CHAMP CLARK. Champ Clark who will go down to his gravp believing that "William J. Bryan cheated him oat of tho presidency, presi-dency, has been chosen speaker for the third time by the Democratic caucus, that party having a small majority in the Sixty -fourth congress. Claude , Kitchin of North Carolina will succeed suc-ceed to the chairmanship of the ways and meana committee and will become floor leader in place of Oscar Fnder-wood, Fnder-wood, who will occupy a scat in the other end of the capitol after tie 4th of March. Xext to the presidency the speakership speaker-ship of the house is ear.ily tho most important office in the United States,' but the man who wiftids the gavel is not so al'-pownrful as he --as before speaker annon wa?. humiliated and the present Senator Xorris of Nebraska ?prang into prom in pm". But the speaker 6 not a ; ' dead one ' ' by any mean and is F.ti II able to direct legislation to some extent. ex-tent. It is a high honor, indeed, to fiil the chair on"n occupied by nu"h men as H'-nry Clay, Jam's h. Blaine and other I g'-rat Uad'-rq airl donbtle f barnp , ' iar'-' is appreciative of the f.vt. Cinv ;ind Bin ir,- ! --o r.iK-M hr j,rf)'rtr v, but thn.'r nani"K arft enbiazoiifd in history his-tory jti-t tiie fame. '.Mr. CI.Tk ovres hh position primarily to John .Sh-'irri Vv'iliiim?, the racrnMii 'J 1, j : :-: p'i t-.f-nator, who oncn p-, the' Oeiuorrritic rm.ionr.y in the hone. Br-r'ure Br-r'ure being transited to th- upper chamber cham-ber ViJ a rn tli"inr-tl Tjij Armond of Mii30iiri, v. ho v;n.h in line for the Irai. 'T-r ip. by putting Clark at. the head of ;;.e r .'. i-.omni j t t,-e. 1 1 ;vi j he re-'n:;i:ber"d re-'n:;i:ber"d that Williams ;,n He Ar-f.orid Ar-f.orid had a persona a.'i na t inn ovt ! in-; mat.t,T on tho floor of tin; horn- rmr j that Vi; irate 'MK?,ourion hit the n- I t.ieri.arj frori j' in the rye. ;:,f ; . thq redoubtable ')r.w v.onJ lur. Mif. ' ,r, if, (l.r. V;, Ifr-.nij, in nn: i-nr.j ' r . w:on. ::i.-r r- ,r. ,: ,; ., ;r J burned to death with his little grand-i son and namesake in his Missouri home, i Champ Clark is peculiarly fitted for i the speakership and the Republican mi-. nority would doubtless prefer him to any 1 ' other Democrat who could be named, j Ho is a good mixer, strives to be fair ; j and is very popular on both Bides of the i chamber. After the next congress it j will be possible to gauge his ability ; more accurately, for the Democratic majority ma-jority is very slender and some of the men who compose it are not exactly in harmony with the administration. If he comes through the ordeal of the next two years unscathed he will rank with the best of the speaker?. Of Claude Kitchin. who will succeed j to the chairmanship of the ways and j means committee when congress reassembles reas-sembles and become floor leader of the Democrats in consequence, it may be paid that he has been a member of the nous-e for fourteen years and has not shown an" marked ability. Ho is . a machine politician, nothing more and nothing less. Until the Republicans return re-turn to power there will probably be no further revision of the tariff, so the new chairman will be harmless in that important particular. During the past two years he has not stood with the administration through thick and thin, and it may be that what are tie-' tie-' ginning to be known as "White house j bills'' will find some rough sledding (when the North Carolinian assumes the i leadership. j , Any way, it does not make much difference dif-ference to the Republicans. There will be an aggressive fight started upon all j the Democratic policies or programmes, lor whatever they are pleased to term I them, and both Speaker Clark and (Leader Kitchin must needs be constant-j constant-j ly on guard or be unhorsed. |