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Show SPEAKER GANNON HITS ENEMIES I ; democrats Flop Into Ranks nf H v Regulars From Insurgents HB BB Wnahlngton, Jan. 9. Speaker Can- BBY iuiiii had his hour of triumph In the M ,, '. .Ilouso today in winning the tlrst im- B ,. jiurtnnt political manouvcr of the pre- BBm went session of Congress. B Hadly battered In tho thrco days' BBV jalorm that swept thu Ilouso last BBv JMarch ,tho speaker "ciimo hack" in a BBV -way that brought a grim smile or sut- BBl 3sfnctlon to his countonanco and left BBb Ziis onpmlcs, thu "Insurgents," dlscom- BBm Tlio speaker today was sustainod by BBV n large majority on a ruling Identical BBb villi tho one he mado last March, BBV -when tho House overruled his docis- BBb Ion HtvroiiKli n combination o( insur- BBB y.vnt Republicans and Democrats. On BBB the ovo of their return to power tho BBB Democrats voted to sustain tho ruling BBb or the chair. BBl Tho Insurgents twenty-sovon or BBB t'hum stood by their guns and BBB rought the speaker bravely In a lost BBB BBB It was on tho polrit as to whether a BBB proposed amendment to tho rules, of- BBB Tcred tiom thu floor, constituted n BBB ' -question of high constitutional prlvl- BB lege, that the storm broko. It was pro- BBB wisely this question that colled out BBB , tho "revolution" of last March, when BBB Ttoprcsontntlvo Norrls of Nebraska of- BBB fcrcd an amendment providing for a BBB rules commltteo of fifteen membors H to to elected by tho House, Instead of H thrco members appointed by the BBB speaker. H j .Speaker Cannon ruled the Norrls K I -resolution out of order. Todny ncpro- BBB eentatlve Puller of Illinois offered a BBB resolution amending tho rulu relat- BBB irrg to the discharge of committees BBB 'from tho consideration of bills. It BBB was purely technical. A point or or- BBB 1er was raised against It, and tho BBB i speaker, declaring he would Ignore the H -precedent set by tho Ilouso last March BBB -when It overruled his ruling in tho BBB I Norrls caso, hold that the Fuller reso BBB Iirtlon was not privileged. BBB Ruling of the Speaker. BB An appeal from the chair was Imme- BBB 1 dlntely taken by u regular Republican, BBB Air. Gaines of West Virginia, who de-i BBB jnanded a yea and nay vote. The BBB speaker was sustained by 233 to f3. BBB Speaker Cannon's ruling was deliver-BBB deliver-BBB i cd In his most Impressive manner. He K gesticulated at time with tho gavel BBS -clutched In his left hand. Again he BBS would pause, put down tho gavel and B apeak almost in a whisper .The atten-B atten-B lion was such, how over, that he could BBS t bo heard In the far corners of the gal-BBS gal-BBS Zcry. H To point out tho similarity of the BBS question raised today nnd Uie one H raised last March, the speaker had BBS .the Norrls resolution read In full, to- H l ' ether with nn extract from the Jour- H I -rial of the House giving the details H i .of the fight that followed and that BBS I, .overthrew the speaker. He also had BBS ' rcad extracts from remarks made by B -Champ Clark and Itepresentatlve Un- BBS tdorwood. BBS -The chair," he said "would have BBS mo difficulty In promptly ruling in hnr- B rmuny with nil the precedents so far B -h VtK chair is nble to ascertain, B from the heglnnlg of this Hnuso In Its . -sittings under tho constitution, except BBS -one. That precedent wns made In the B Hast session of the present CongreRH BBSj vipon a resolution precisely similar in BBS Birlnclple to this." B .Majority Can Always Control. I bbBH B The speaker said that under the B 'gie.it parliamentary reforms" of last B 31iurli thwe is still no way under the H rules to amend tho rules except by H revolution if we nro to taku thu word I H .-iiTiO vote or tho gentlemen In the j H Houu Inst session .constituting for . -thu time being a majority of thu B -I'Utw, the chair desires to say In B tills connection," he continued, "that, B it Is ullhin tho power of the Ilouso, ft filing by a majority, to do anything H', sliat a majority votes for, having com- H iilete control in the premises, whethor B justified by the fixed law of tho land, B tho constitution or otherwise. There B -was a way, however, without violating -either the letter or tho spirit or tho B constitution, without violating tho BBBb rules ot tho House, by which a ma- H orlty ot this House, when this pro- H cedont, as mado, might have worked H t its H' "lint tho minority ot tho Ilouso, H .substantially acting togethor and ro- H Inrorced by a minority ,mado a now B majority nnd that now majority, un- H tier tho leadership ot th'e gontloman B from Missouri (Mr. Clark) worked a ft revolution. Now that could havo been V iicoompllslied by a" majority ousting H( 4ho speaker from tho commltteo on B Tides, declaring tho placo vacant and Hi electing Rome 'membor who would H, -rk the will or the majority, but that BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBEL - - BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBp " m J0& A'i..r - ....-... mihnmm I .1.1 1 course was not pursued. No Election Pending. "Howuvor, tho House Is now in good humor. Tlieio Is no election ponding In tho near future; tho great press ot tho country and tho great leaders of tho respective parties are quiet. Wo arc not excited, "Tho chair declines to rollow tho Judgment ot tho Ilouso at this last session of Congress, under which it madu tho precedent, nnd In making this decision tho chair makes It with tho highest respect for tho House, because be-cause tho present occupant of tho chair ,aftor nearly forty years of service, ser-vice, has tho highest respect for tho House, and has no deslro now or In the future, by voice, voto or ruling, to favor any rules of procoduro which will thwart or unduly embarrass tho House in working Its will. "Tho chair, therefore In effect appeals ap-peals to tho Ilouso from a doclslson ot that samo House, mado In great excitement, ex-citement, when tho waves of parthau-Bhlp parthau-Bhlp wcro high, doing so after tho wind has ceasod and tho billows havo passed away and tho nca Is serenely bluo. "Tho chair, therefore, sustains the point of ordor." |
