Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-05 | Page 1 | Champ Clark is Honored by Party

i . Champ Clark Is Honored by Party I Speaker Clark and Claude Kitchin. i f -' - - w C n 'if , , ' v . ' 4 i , - tr i J, t- i i : - rf v--f - '-V ! I - fK . i ' 4 I , ' K. I 'I 1 "J? - I ' - C'c f i 2 FY' ' it " -V -J I ; -,rv; , v ? Caucus Picks Him for the Speaker Again; Kitchin to Be Floor Leader. By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The Democrats who will compose the house of representatives in the next congress In a noisy caucus tonight chose Champ Clark as their candidate for speaker and Claude Kitchin of North Carolina for floor leader to succeed Oscar Underwood, who will go to the seriate. Speaker Clark never received greater applause on the house floor thari that which was given him after ho had been nominated by Representative Lloyd of Missouri and elected by a unanimous yell. When the noise had died away he warned his colleagues, who will have but a slim majority in the next house, that "the future of the party was tied up in the sixty-fourth congress." He gave them a warning against the absenteeism which has marked the record of the present pres-ent majority. Representative Kitchin, nominated by Representative Page of North Carolina, made a sweeping promise when he said: "I Intend to be present on this floor during every hour of the next session." Although Kitchin today voted against the president's veto of the immigration bill, voted against free tolls and is op-I op-I posed to another administration bill, the I ship measure, he mentioned the presi-J presi-J dent in glowing terms In a speech in the caucus. R.epresentative Fitzgerald of New York pledged the Democratic delegation to support sup-port the speaker and the new leader. The startling feature of the election of new members of the ways and means committee was the preponderance of the vote for John J. Casey of Wilkes-Bnrre, Pa., over that of John J. Lesher of Sun-bury, Sun-bury, Pa. Desher was backed by Representative Repre-sentative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, while Casey was backed by the anti-Palmer element. Other new members of the big committee commit-tee were Charles R. Crisp, Georgia; W. A. Oldfleld, Arkansas; Alfred G. Allen. Ohio; R. J. McGUlifuddy, Maine, and Guy T. Helvering. Kansas. E. V. Saunders of Virginia was chosen chairman of the caucus after a hot contest con-test with M. R. Foster of Illinois. v?r"