Show representative cannon of illinois chosen speaker of the house at the caucus of the republican members of the house of re represents presenta tires tives held in the hall of the bouse house saturday night representative jo seph G cannon of illinois was unan anani chosen as the candidate of the majority as speaker of the house A resolution a as adopted making the elective officers ot of the house in the last congress the nominees for the fifty eighth congress the rules of the fifty seventh con eress gress were adopted tor for the fifty eighth it was decided that fifty shall be the number necess necessary axy to call a caucus |