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Show PLEASING THE MINORITY. Uncle Joe Cannon Says We May Have to Change the Constitution. Boston, Mass. "When wo havo to change tho rules of tho house to permit per-mit the minority to dlctato legislation legisla-tion on behalf of special Interests, wo will bo confronted with tho necessity of changing our constitution and all our conceptions of a people's government, govern-ment, where the majority shall legislate legis-late and accept responsibility for tho legislation." Speaker Joseph G. Cannon made' tho foregoing declaration Saturday night in nddrcssing tho Middlesex club on the occasion of a celebration of the eighty-eighth anniversary of the birth of General Grant. |