Show CANNON BY insurgents SHORN OF VAST POWERS AFTER sensational POLITICAL BATTLE insurgent republicans and democrats succeed in removing speaker from committee on rules but refuse to declare vacant washington after one of the mo moa h sensational political battles in the hla his t tory ory of tile the house of representatives speaker joseph G cannon on satur day lost the ancient prestige ge and weapon of that office when the allied republican insurgents ani and democrats took from him not only the chali ch ahman maiv s ship hip of but even membership in tile the all powerful committee on oil rules the chief asset in his stock of powei dy by a vote vole of to the lican insurgents voting solidly with the democrats the house adopted ailo pled tile the resolution or of mr air lorils or ils republican va JOSEPH G CANNON of nebraska requiting a tion of oe the rules niles committee ing its membership ficia flee five to ten and declaring the speaker ineligible to membership theiron llie icon 13 the I identical vote note of to but with aith a decidedly dlf dif terent ferent personnel onnel of alignment the house defeated a rejo resolution lution of senta tentative tive burleson Bu ileson of fexas dec deflating lating the vacant and oi dering the immediate election of a to nir mr cannon the resolution inas ft as as fol lowb shallie shall be a committee on rules elected by t the ie h house 0 ise hither to the committee of five like all ajl other house committees has been appoint ed by the speaker consisting of ten membris mem beis six of whom shall be mem hers of the majority pait 1 ahe I he er shall not be a member of the committee and the committee shall elect its onn on chaliman filin its own membris resolved fu ful ither ther that within hin ten das afeei the adoption of this le ie solution there shall be ba an elec of this committee and imme upon its election the present committee on rules shall be d da s solved it was vias upon the adoption of this resolution that one of tile the greatest contests in the he history bistor of the houge hou ae was waged tho the republicans opposed to the adoption of the re resolution alution means mean the lita lilal de of the speaker while the insurgent igent republicans joined with mith the democrats and succeeded after a bitter and prolonged fight in securing votes enough to pass the locution lution when the tumult had partially pait lally sub aided after the vote ou on the norri a resolution had been taken speaker cannon gained the attention of the meni membris beis and made an address in which he declared there are two courses open for the speaker to pur sue one la Is to resign and permit the n new e w combination of democrats and i insurgents n s to choose a speaker in harmony with its acts and purposes the other Is for that combination t to 0 declare a vacancy in the office of speaker and proceed to the election of a new speaker the speaker declared that to volun tartly resign would mould be a confession of weakness or mistake and an apology for past actions and as he was not conscious of wrong wrongdoing doing had bad con trued the rules as he found them and as they had been construed by previous speakers he would not le ie sign the vote on motion to declare the vacant showed that there was as no desire upon the part of the majo majority majoria rit to change speakers but simply to eliminate the speaker from the committee on rules on thursday representative norris introduced it a privileged resolution to change the house committee on rules augmenting the membership to alf teen arid and eliminating tile the speaker A ebirt hour session ilon the it liveliest bliest in re cent legislative annals followed on dilday the house adjourned arid and FL a ra eries of conferences with aith a view to lo comp compromise comaromi romi were ere A coni coin promise measure to make the commit te tee e ten in number dud to displace ItS pICO tu fit ture speakers alers aror was mas rejected ou on Sit saturday when the house con at noon speaker cannon sus BUS representative darzella dalzells Dal zella zells poil coln of 0 f order against the resolution norris appealed and the house noted 0 sustain him blin representative nor N orris moved the preN previous lous question on his ie solution shutting out debate ahe norris resolution was vms voted noted ou in and was sustained b bv the lie houe A roll tall call was then taken on the question shall tile the decision of tho the stand as the he decision of the lie house and tile the speaker was ali over ruled the notile resolution was as then voted on oil by the he house having been taken out of the hands of the speaker and given direct to the tives alves for division speaker cannons cannon a term terin eppli es next march but it Is 13 persistently thu thit th U ho he will vili resign before that time this gives ilse to speculation as to who ho will be his hia mic successor cessor the dem will it Is said advocate champ blaik ahle the father of the tion which has been the bone of con tendon for the past few davs representative senta tive norris of Nebra nebraska ika Is now in the limelight and will probably be a candidate but lit in the meant lne joseph G cannon Is still the of the house though shorn aborn of much of his former power |