AMERICA.
THE SPEAKERSHIP
Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 21, 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 20.
Thirty-live dissatisfied Republicans, combined with the Democrats to curtail the powers of the Speakership, alleging that Joseph Cannon used his power to nominate a committee of men in an arbitrary fashion in the interests of the Republican party. Hardly had the new rule passed, providing that six Republicans and four Democrats should form rules for the committee which deals with precedence of private members' bills, than a rowdy debate sprung up, which ended in the House refusing the demand of the Democrats to depose Mr Cannon. The insurgent Republicans had to be satisfied with curtailing the Speaker's power.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 67, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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