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Show VICTORY FOR CANNON. Speaker Sustained on Ruling Identical With One That Caused So Much Trouble Last March. Washington. Speaker Cannon had his hour of triumph in the house on Monday in winning the first important political maneuver of the present session ses-sion of congress. Badly battered in the three days' storm that swept the house last March, the speaker "came back" in a way that brought a grim smile of satisfaction to his countenance and left his enemies, the "insurgents," discomfited. The speaker was sustained by a large majority on a ruling identical with the one he made last March, when the house overruled his decision decis-ion through a combination of insurgent insur-gent Republicans and Democrats. On the eve of their return to power the Democrats voted to sustain the ruling rul-ing of the chair. The insurgents twenty-seven of them stood by their guns and fought the speaker bravely in a lost cause. When Champ Clark of Missouri, slated to succeeed Speaker Cannon, voted to sustain the chair on the same point of order which furnished the basis for the successful insurgent campaign last March, the Republicans broke Into a storm of applause. Leading Lead-ing Democrats admitted that they thought the speaker was right In his ruling last March and that he ruled in line with the precedents of the house. |