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Show Uncle Joe's Ropty. Somo members of the houBo hoard a few days ngo the strangest combination combi-nation of aacred and profane languago which had over been uttered on that floor. During a debate Uncle Joe Cannon Can-non went after A. Mitchell Palmer of Penneylvanla, and handled him without with-out gloves.. Cannon" is a Quaker and ho is Palmer. When conversing privately pri-vately thoy drop into the Quaker vernacular. ver-nacular. After the debate Palmer went to the former speaker, whn Is thirty-six years older than himself, "Uncle Joe," he said, "thee treated me a llltlo roughly In the dobate today." to-day." "Well," replied Uncle Joo, In a mix tare of Quaker and Cannocian English, Eng-lish, "pernapB I did treat thee a little severely, but blankety-blank, thou deserved de-served ovory damned thins I said' . i |