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Show SPEAKER CANNON 18 SITTING ON A POWDER ILL, STRIKING ITCHES He Will Touch the Thing Off Some Day mi Will Find Himself Going Up Through the Dome of the Capitol-Says an Insurgent Washington, A'prll 12 Speaker Cannon s challenge to the Republican Republi-can insurgents of the house In hll speech on tho floor yesterday, when he abruptly told them that unless they " had tho courage" to combine with the Democrats and vote to vacate va-cate the chair, he would remain speaker until March 4, 1911, brought expressions from the insurgent leaders lead-ers today In no uncertain tones. "Tho speaker can continue to make these spectacular defleB," said Representative Rep-resentative Murdock of Kansas, "until "un-til after the administration legislation legisla-tion Is disposed of. He knows hr- is perfectly safe just now. But after wc have passed tho Important legislation legis-lation on hand his case will be attended attend-ed to. A man can't continue to mako large bluffs without eventually being called " Representative Poindextcr of Wash lngton, another insurgent, who with Murdock voted some weeks in favor of the Burleson resolution to depos.; Speaker Cannon, was equally caustic. "Cannon's act Is foolish," he said. "He Is sitting on a powder mill and It seems to me a pretty reckless per-' per-' formance for him to keep on striking matches all around the place. He will touch this thing off some day and he will find himself going up through the dome of the captcol I "The speaker cannot eliminate the I Issue of Caunonlsiu by constantly par-I par-I adlng It in the house. The issue in not an incidental or personal one, but Is fundamental, and there can be no harmony until it Is finally disposed of r.nd disposed of In tho right way. "Cannon's speech of yesterday wns not a particularly fine effort at harmonizing har-monizing the rarty." |