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Show of progress as an obstructionist. Mr. Cannon's attribution of selfleh motives mo-tives to newspapers in relation to the duty on wood pulp is nonsense, and if it were true would affoct not at all tho force of tho ' argument made against the speaker, lo complete his apology Uncle Joe should insist that the whole Methodist church has a selfish interest in wood pulp. That church denounced' him vigorously during the campaign. THE SPEAKER. Uncle Joe Cannon is no little disturbed dis-turbed by the evidences of popular disapproval with his autocratic rulo of tho house of representatives has elicited in the last year, and at a recent re-cent banquet in Philadelphia he took occasion, In his customary picturesque pictur-esque way, to make apology In this wise: "In the chapter of accidents I bo-came bo-came speaker of the house. When the minority undertook to control the majority they were met with a refusal re-fusal from the majority and the speaker. The speaker would have been like a cat In hell without claws if he had not fought against such usurpation. "Rules were formulated for the government gov-ernment of the house. Those rules were right and proper. Under them the house wrote wise and proper legislative leg-islative measures upon the statute books. "There were wild howls from partially par-tially selfleh newspapers and magazines maga-zines because tho czar did not remove re-move 15 per cent ad valorem duty on print paper and wood pulp. They said they wanted It removed becauso the cost of print paper and wood pulp had increased 50 per cent, but they could not show that tho Increaso was due to the duty, and the speaker refused to allow the duty to be removed. re-moved. "They were ashamed' Mr. Cannon said, turning to Vice President-Elect James Sherman, who was a guc6t vlth him at the function, "to explain that this was the real reason for tholr pounding during your campaign cam-paign and mine." The newspapers, says tho Call, did not want that klud of a cat for a speaker, but they, did want a man who -would not Btand in tho path. |