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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 Imjiortant political maneuver of the present ccs ion of congress. Madly battered In the three days' storm that swept the house last March, Ihe speaker "came back" In a way that brought a grim smile of satisfaction to his countenance and left hla enemies, the "Insurgents," discomfited. The speaker was sustained by a largo majority on a ruling Identical with Oie one he made last March, when the house overruled his decls-i decls-i Ion through a combination of Insur- I gent Hepubllcnns and Democrat. On i the eve of their return to power the . Democrats voted to sustain the rul ' 1 ing of the chair. I The Insurgents twenty-seven of j them stood by their guns and fought i the speaker bravely In a lost cause. When Champ Hark of Missouri, slated to succeeed Speaker Cannon, voted to sustain the chair on the same point of order which furnished s the basis for the successful Insurgent campaign last March, the Republicans broke Into a storm of applause. leading lead-ing Democrat admitted that they thought the speaker was right In hi ruling last March and that he ruled In line with the precedent of the bouse. |