| Show V i i r j 1 First Authoritative ive State e Q as to 6 rge Aims In ogress i r 1 1 1 r r p g r P l Cp R ELBERT N d lOHN T St H WISCONSIN i THESE THESE ARE THE THIRTY l INSURGENTS J Cary Wisconsin Ii Henry A eon Cooper W Wisconsin Charles R DaviD Darla Minnesota John J Each Wisconsin Charles N Fowler New j Augustus P Gardner Gordner Massachusetts I I IJames James W Good Town lown Asle Alle J Gronna North Dakota I 1 Gilbert N Iowa A Hayes California i Edmund H Hinshaw Nebraska Ohio I I DavId A Hollingsworth Elbert H Hubbard Iowa i iI Adna R It Johnson OhIo I N E Kendall Iowa lown i Moso P Kinkaid Nebraska 0 Arthur W Kopp WisconsIn I Irvine L I Lenroot Wisconsin Charles A Lindbergh Minnesota I William C Lovering I E H Madison Kansas t tI I I E A Morle Marse Wisconsin I Victor Murdock Kansas t tI John M 1 Nelson WisconsIn I H V Norris Nebraska J Charles F Pickett tt Iowa Iowan n I Mlles Holvor Minnesota s I Andr J Minnesota I I Frank P Woods I By ROBERTUS LOVE LOVEI I lIY ItY do the h heathen rage rae I Why do the Insurgents I I And do the people Imn imagine lne a 11 vain I thin thing Whether the people imagine n a nI avain vain thing with regard to Speaker I I JO Joseph 11 f Cannons control of oC legisla I I lion In con r 11 mn may be a matter of oC oCI oCa I opinion but here for th the first a lime we have hav from Crom Congressman Victor 1 t uck of oC Kansas Karul s the acknowledged ed leader or of the so C called lIed insurgents In inthe Ih the house hUS an authoritative succinct signed statement prepared In n response i i to 1 a special request from the present I writer as to just why the insurgents I I nu The people or of the United States ot at large e are deeply Interested In this In int 1 movement whether they bed be t love In It or not The Interest Is In Increasing d creasing for the insurgent struggle Is 1 becoming moro more virile ns as on III IIII gress greSH gets gots down to work after tho holl day oy vaC vacation Many persons love lovo a I scrap crap whether It be pugilistic or 1 91 t t o or 1 r I F z I K LV Ff L x iF ti t f I f rf i c I parliamentary This one IS purelY P ar Insurgents Not Dangerous Fr For the benefit of ladles who live IIvo In suffrage states It may bo pointed out that the tho insurgent In congress Is s snot not n a Central American n with witha a corn knife and n a cartridge e belt but an American citizen whom tho voters of his district prize so high I that they have sent him to Washington to represent sent ent them In the tho making of national laws The Tb Insurgent contends that ho hoIs hois Is sent there to represent and the render reader will find by perusing Mr Mur Murdocks Murdocks docks statement that the thirty Re Republican Republican publican congressmen who make malte up the little brigade or of opponents t to o the tho s rs rule from the majority side i ot of the house are conducting thIs cam camI that they are aro I I because they feel snot not permitted to represent As rep rea e the demand that havo I a chance lt to represent r 1 say the h ln gente and under the tho present power conferred upon the speaker by the house hOURI rules roIls and other conditions a member has little or no In legis legislation laUon lation Edmund Edmun Burke Burko said ald there were tour four estates In parliament the tho fourth being belm represented In the press gallery The I insurgent Republicans In con congress Tess ma mabe may maybe be called the thc fifth estate According to I II their contention they represent the do I I termination to o represent their con I and that Is why for several years they have been restating resisting the rule of the tho speaker It is 15 not n a personal fight n against Jos Joseph ph G Cannon Connon but an Impersonal ono one against the tho prerogatives i tives of his office A speaker by any other name would smell lIB as odoriferous I THE HErP PURPOSE RP OF F TH THE INS INSURGENTS I II THOSE bre ire insurgent against the house rules are striving to restore popular representation in congress Today there are members in the house Only one of them the speaker r actually exercises the functions of representation All power in the tho house has been shifted I I from the membership to the speaker There is but one way to give representation back to the tho house and that is by taking the power which has been concentrated in the speaker away from him himAt himAt At present the speaker Joseph G Cannon exercises first firlit control over business second control over recognition and third control over tho Totes fotes of the m membership t His control over business of major importance Is exercised through his membership on the committee on rules the tho committee which forces f t measures through the tho house under is without the right of amendment or debate It is proposed therefore first to put the tho speaker t off that committee F The speakers control through ion comes under the t he right of f ft t the speaker to inquire into the ho purpose of a I motion made by a member 1 and if the motion be obnoxious to the the to refuse the tr member to make his motion It is proposed therefore second to take that tyrannical right away from the speaker Tho speaker today appoints all committees He appoints men as i i chairmen who will be loyal to him and makes members of committees men who will be loyal to his lieutenant chairmen This is his machine The speakers caprice controls i His whim wim rules If the s sneaker eaker desire a measure reported out of committee for action he has but to say the word If he desire a 1 measure to remain in n a pigeonhole he has merely so to Indicate It is proposed therefore third to let the tho house appoint i its own committees Popular representation hu has been perverted and defeats defeated d by b a 1 eon con of power in the speaker The purpose Is to correct and re re restore store representation by bv taking power away Dway from the speaker and putting t tit it back in the membership It can be done by changing the system first by excluding the tho speaker from the committee on rules second by changing the rule of recognition third by permitting the tho house to name 1 It its own w committees Lt I AA NE r w ry r al r t 1 v 1 iV L to these Insurgents If he exercised the same samo prerogatives which aro denounced de denounced I by b the thundering thirty as a species of absolutism engrafted upon our body poll tie tic Cannons Crown of Thorns These insurgent ent members are thirty thorns In the flesh of the tho speaker This Is the number of them as already reflected reelected In votes but Victor I tells mo eno that there thore will be morn more at the very first opportunity to express In Insurgency sentiments on the roll call Should any curious person Just ns as asan an exercise In simple arithmetic do sire to understand wh why Speaker Can Cannon Cannon non smokes his cigars at an extra up tilted angle lot let him C n a little lit little tle figuring Them are members member In the house The num number number ber the Democrats Democrat From the Republicans subtract 30 insurgents result Republicans left lert To the Democrats add 30 0 Insurgents re r suit Democrats Anyhow they will I voto that wa way on an any proposition to press the thorn crown more mor tightly about tho troubled brow or of Un to 10 Joe Joo Did you hear har trop There YOU have n a fatal thirteen ma majority maJority against the speaker already In InI I No matter whether YOU believe In Uncle Joe as an nn angel ol with wings or hIm as a devil with whiskers whether you honor the tho insurgents as possible saviors of their lib or thorn ns as traitor to their port party that thirteen majority a against the speaker on roll call Ih n a stupendous fact that stares you In the tho face And suppose the dl di division vision should rail fall upon n a New Jersey to California Californian n By reference to the list or of the tho thirty printed herewith you will observe that the insurgent ent movement is not merely n a cyclone though the head and front C n the tho offending halls hall from Crom Wichita and mem member ber from rom th the tate late Edmond H f or of Dodge City Is I 9 In fine The Tho insurgent hall from twelve of the 1111 Republican states New Jersey has hns It its Fowler who not long no ago en engaged led In an open letter contest wIth the I sneaker which spluttered red fire California ic i on the list Massachusetts has lias two cents ints Wisconsin has more than half of Its members Minnesota has four Iowa has six Nebraska hn has three thre Ohio home of the president has two North Dakota has one and faron Washington has another It appears In fine that there thero Is nothing local about the Insurgent movement The Tho protest against the tho speakers prerogatives Is voiced In the tho house of representatives from ron coast to coast Now England palm with K Kan n pairs And these days there thoro thoroIs Is usually a lull ull house In the tho I hand because every member is 19 In ng something to break brenk loose In tho insurgent In campaign and wants to bo be In at th the killing The Republicans counting out the to be betherl bethere there therl to keep the tho from rom coalescing with the insurgents The Democrats want to bt be thoro to CO lesee nt at the first blush bluh of oC opportunity That ThatIs Is IA one o of the things hat mil make this sea slon o of the congress morn I Ithan than usually Interesting from Crom tho visit visitor or galleries Upheld by Constituents All the Insurgents declare that their I people are by them When en Murdock got homo home from Crom the tho extra session last summer the tho populace populace lace of Wichita met him n at t the depot and paraded him around town with a abrass brass band In front and the insurgent In the tho 1 leading a In carriage Main street treet and Douglas avenue crammed to the curbs with vociferous Several other Insurgents had receptions though It is probable that Murdocks Murdock was WOl the nORt r J C a Washington news newspaper I paper mon man In n a current ma mag magazine azine article to elect olt an In Insurgent speaker There are plenty ot of good goodmen men among amonI them with whom no mIs tako could be made hll he says tur Mur Murdock Jock dock or of of Town Nor Norris tl ris cis or of Cooner of Wisconsin are tried veterans of oC this warfare any anyon anyone on one of thom them would make malto on an able t r and absolutely true speaker Well what do you think about It |
