Show washington LETTER WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR THE BOX EUDER ELDEB EL DEB NEWS washington DC da jau jan az that speaker cannon is doomed to defeat in any attempt to continue la in bis big present position of power and that the insurgents and democrats as at pres ent constituted have a clear working majority in the house of representatives was made evident during tile the past week of 0 excitement at tile the capital it Is conceded by many of the he pu publican b lican leaders that oven even though tile the speaker aker persists in his determination to carry tile the fight to tile the fi nish finish he will be unable to muster enough votes rotes in the next house to again wrest victory from his foes so large a number ol of representatives of his hii own party havi have expressed their intention 0 to o pledge themselves to their constituents vote against its his reelection that his success seems out of the question A very largo large republican can majority in the sixty second con gress would not altar altai the situation jorj for the reason that the newly elected members lA Bould also be against him then coq to clithero thero kit li lere are indications that the old organization which has four times niad cannon speaker is slowly s fionn ly dissolving ant a new alignment of forces particular 1111 othis situation have themselves on the surface in announcements of candidates di for tile the representative senta tive Olirs ted ot of pennsylvania one of tile supporters ot of cannon has siren sieu the handwriting on the wall anil and ran up chiq hi lightning rod representative diekema Dl ekema ot of Alic michigan higan has issued a statement declaring that cannon and Cant are done for that the delegation from liis ills state will not support the speaker retention and that therefore lie is a candidate other announcements of 0 like tenor are expected perhaps net nei idler olmsted nor will ibe elected ejected but they have hare squared thein with their in washington it is power that attracts tracts the allegiance of 0 ft nand ane ore are so quick buic k to detect the beginning 0 of great changes in this sovern government ment of opinion as those ho hold oacle because ot of that loa these storm periods of american politics the politicians cans have decided that the country jia h made up its mind unfavorable to and are acting lewd angly they are trimming their nails nowadays the demon or of 11 oval of uncle joe I 1 in tile the house tue Wp tu e few and far between and tile terms used in referring to him are more floribal to fo rubal ribal if not more severe it is considered that the political disease from which ile he is suffering is mortal considerable time will elapse before vile the next speaker is chosen but only a few months before the nomination arid and election of members of the sixty second congress hence the effort at this earl early date to discover upon whom the mantle of cannon will tu and to get on the bandwagon band wagon now that sen senator ator bif ton conand and general grosvenor have left the house ohio lias has no man who looms up as a possibility when the jast contest wason was on sereno serano I 1 E payne and james S sheran Sher mn now vice pros pres ident dent made it impossible for new york to unite and enable illinois to carry oh off the prize who Is republican floor leader and chairman of the ways and means committee is lacking in sufficient personal popularity with his colleagues and is s to be out of st it pennsylvania has olm sted able lawyer and john dalzell member of the committee on rules and famous as a high protection standpatter the two men who loom up largest in the calculation are james and mann of chicago chairman of tte important committee on interstate and foreign commerce and now regarded as the strongest man in the illinois delegation outside of the speaker and jim tawney chairman of the committee on appropriations no member ot of the house stands closer to the powers that be than mann none work ander ile he lias has taken the place held by of indiana a decade ago ot of watchdog watch dog of the treasury ile he scrutinizes every piece of legislation and surprises everybody by his knowl edge of bills his colleagues try to r slide lide through quietly because containing a joker he has refused unanimous consent to the consideration of so many measures and has thereby inspired the hostility of so BO many of his bis coll colleagues dagues that he be would be out ol of the running were it not for tire the fact that they like him personally and believe that his motives are always of tile the best tawney is more popular than any other republican in the house having charge of the ampro pi latious lations of the government aria ana therefore having the means of gratifying or Te refusing fusing the desires of his colleagues lie he has a hold upon them second to none ile he is also a man of great strength of character ho he Is tile me man president taft defended tor for his attitude on oil the tariff in the winona speech tawney was at one time not many years ago an all insurgent himself lie he fought the then ruling house organization so well that he was taken into it and given the best at its disposal ile he is considered by both republicans public ans aud democrats as the best vote getter in tile the house and looms up in a very large way as heir to the all this is or of course con contingent upon the election 0 of o a house the democrats are hopeful of wiping out the present majority ot of fifty for the time obelne they are tarrying carrying out a policy ot of letting the it out selves and thereby help their cause indirectly tile the republicans are confident that with sufficient pledges to the country that cannon will vill not be reelected speaker they will get together and be returned to power even though it be with a small email majority the chii pressure on speaker cannon to voluntarily announce that lie will not ng ngali gain become a can candidate didace despite ills his recent aggressive statement ws likes this Is super induced by uio the tact fact thai that it has been discovered that the democrats and insurgents have made a cast iron coalition and have a ma iua or 0 or three votes over ever oxe ahe regular republicans in the house there are caus and democrats three democratic seats beats are vacant filled the com combination bin atLon has a majority of six caused by the tact fact that in the th insurgent camp are arc as dyed lia in the wool opponents of cannon and the present house rules the lineup line up on a test berst vote would be democrats and insurgents to republican lican regulars this fact accounts for the will of the regular republicans to make a concession giving the insurgents g one mem member berof of the hallinger Halll nger investigation committee it also accounts lor for the strenuous efforts mode mantle by the president to force them into a position where they will have to vote for the measures nearest liis his heart or get out of the party ile ic can put through none of those measures without them the breach is still wide during the week the president talked with representative hayes of california murdock murdoch of kansas arid and gardner of massachusetts all of them insurgents lie ile gave them to understand that lie too had his back to the wall arid and that he be meant to do something in the way war of getting ills his measures adopted lie ile made it clear to them that his test of their republicanism would be a vote for the following measures which lie he regards as pled pied god by the party parly at the last convention arid and in the campaign campal gh the limitation of the use of the injunction poyer by the federal courts the enactment of amendments to railway rate laws and those to the laws that regulate interstate commerce the establishment of a system of postal savings banks separate statehood for Ai arizona irona and new mexico cou conservation serva of the national resources and a federal incorporation act despite the direct assaults on carlnon cannon and the meetings here during the week of the governors of the states arid and the dional civic federation the forthcoming ballinger investigation has been kept to the fore by additional charges on oil the part of representative hitchcock of neb against the tha secretary odthe ingerl inferior on the gi ground dolid of alleged mismanage ment in ili ills his t the charges incidentally allege that funds of t the he department have been improperly 1 j used in paying the travel traveling ln expenses of secretary ballinger Bal lingers s second cousin the investigation of these charges next week by y the house committee on expenditures in ili the interior department is looked forward to with interest because of its bearing on the larger inquiry of tire joint committee on which senator root will represent the Adminis tra tion the latter fact alone shows thu th importance of the investigation in determining ter mining the success or failure of the administration so far as the near future is concerned the decision by the republican caucus to stand by the selection of ollie james of kentucky one of the bof t radical of the democrats of the house as a member of the same committee though it refused to accede to the election by the democratic caucus of rainey of illinois who raised such a rumpus in the panama canal charges indicates that the aggressive opposition to secretary ballinger will be manifee ted during the hearings A A significant fact also in th this iscon connection tion was the ovation given gif lord iby ithe assembled idale ates ito the meeting of the civic federation de ration when lie he addressed them from tile the same platform as president taft and made madea a plea for conservation omitting all mention of the particular controversy which brought his dismissal another angle was th the e by II moore chief of the file weather bureau in refutation of the contentions ot of pinchot and tile entire forestry service that deforestation prevents proper rainfall ra intall |