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Show BAMHOM DEFEATED BY INSURGENTS SPEAKERSHIP SHORN OP VAST POWERS AFTER SENSATIONAL POLITICAL BATTLE. Insurgent Republicans and Democrats Succeed In Removing Speaker From Committee on Rules, But Refuse to Declare Speakership Speak-ership Vacant. Washington. Aftor ono of the mo;it-sonsntional mo;it-sonsntional political battles 'in th history his-tory of tho house of representative, Speaker Joseph o," Cannon on ' Saturday Satur-day -lost .tho ancient prestige and weapon of thajt office when 'the' allied Republican Insuigonts and Democrats-took Democrats-took froYn bln'i n'otvonly the cijairmaui .ship, of, but cveh membership lh, the all-powerful committee on rules., tho (chlof assrjt In his stork of power-. Dy a vbtoW 101 to 155, tho'R'opub "lloan Imlui'gonts5 'voting solidly Svftlr the Democrats, thC-houso ndopt-cd the" resolution pC-,,?. nls, Republican, 'Jills " JOSEPH Q. CANNON. of Nebraska, roqulrlng a reorganization reorganiza-tion of tho rules committee, Increasing Increas-ing its membership from live to ten, and declaring tho speaker Ineligible to membership thereon. By the curiously identical vote of 191 to 155 but with a decidedly different dif-ferent personnel of nllgnmont the Iioubo defeated a resolution of Representative Repre-sentative Burleson of Texas, declaring tho speakership vacant and ordering tho immedlato election of a successor to Mr. Cannon. The Norrls resolution was as follows: fol-lows: "There shall bo a committee on rules, elected by the houso (hitherto the committee of live, like all other houso committees, has boon appointed appoint-ed by tho speaker), consisting of ten members, six of whom shall ho members mem-bers of the majority party. The spoakor shall not bo a member of the committee, and tho committee shall elect Its own chairman from Its own membors. Resolved, further, that within ten days aftor the adoption of this resolution, thoro shall be an election elec-tion of this committee, and Immediately Imme-diately upon Its election, tho present committee on rules shull be dissolved." dis-solved." It was upon tho adoption of this resolution that ono of tho greatest contests In tho history or tho houso was waged. Tho regular Republicans were opposed to tho adoption of tho resolution, which means tho practical dethroning of the speaker, while tho Insurgont" Republicans Joined with tho Domocrats and succeoded, aftor a blttor and prolonged tight, in securing votes enough to pass the resolution. When tho tumult had partially subsided sub-sided after the voto on the Norrls resolution had been taken, Spoaker Cannon gained the attention of tho members and made an address in which ho declared: "Thoro aro two joursos open for tho speaker to pur-suo: pur-suo: Ono is to roslgn and permit the now combination of Democrats and insurgents to chooso a speaker In harmony with Its acts and purposes. Tho other 1b for thnt combination to declare a vacancy In tho office of speaker and proceed to the olectlon of n new spoaker." Tho speaker declared that to voluntarily volun-tarily resign would ho a confession of weakness or mistake and an apology for past actions, and aa ho was not conscious of wrong-doing, had construed con-strued tho rules as ho found thorn, and as thoy had been construed by previous speakers, hn would not re-Bign. re-Bign. The vote on the motion to declare tho speakership vacant showed that there was no dosiro upon tho part of the majority to change speakors, but simply to ellralnato tho speaker from the committee on rules. On Thursday Representative Norrls Introduced a privileged resolution to hange tho house committee on rules, augmenting tho membership to fifteen, fif-teen, and eliminating the speaker. A thirty-hour session, the liveliest In recent re-cent legislative annals, followed. On Friday the houso adjourned and a series of conferences, with a view to compromise, were started. A compromise com-promise mcasuro to make the commit-too commit-too ten In number and to displace future fu-ture speakers fror membership was rejected. On Saturday when tho houso convened con-vened tit noon, Speaker Cannon sustained sus-tained Representative Dalzoll's point of order against the Norrls resolution. Norrls appealed, and the house voted .o sustain him. Representative Norrls Nor-rls moved tho previous question on his resolution, shutting out debate. Tho Norrls resolution was voted on and was sustained by the houso. A roll-call was then taken on tho question: "Shall the decision of tho upvakor's(ai:d as the decision of tho ho'liae"?" and tho speaker was overruled. over-ruled. Tho Norrls rosojutlon was then voted on by tho house, having been taken out of tho hands of "rlie speaker ttlid given direct to the representatives representa-tives 'foV' division. . . Speajter Cannon's term expires next March', but it Js norslsj entry famWed' tllaT 'h'e will PeslgiV ben'ire' that, time. This iglv.es ' rise in speculation ' as ' to . vho vlll jjo his successor. Tho Democrats Dem-ocrats 'Will, lt'ls said' advocate Champ .Clark, w'Hire the father of tho rosolutlon rosolu-tlon which has boon the bono of contention con-tention fp.r tho. past, few days, Homo- sentntlvo Norrls, of Nebraskn. Is now In 'the lfinoilght, and will probaYAj- bo a candidate. ' " ' Hut In. .tho meantime, Josoph G. t'aiinon Is still tho speaker of tho house, though shorn of much of his former power. |