CANNON GOES OFF.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10409, 22 March 1910, Page 3

CANNON GOES OFF.

PROYKS ONLY A I'OP-NUN. I Hv Electric Tki.kokai'h.—Coi'YlUCiiit.] (Pnu PitDss Association.) Received March 21. at 10.r>~> p.m. London, March 21. The Times' Washington correspondent says the old 'Republican organisation in Congress has suddenly crumbled. Cannon was virtually a Democrat., and intended to make Cannonism the great issue in the congressional campaign. II" blundered badly, helping tlie Rc]>nhlicans Lo rid themselves ol the incubus of C'annonism. I The sit uation indicated arose out of (be battle between the Chief Korester, (• i (i'orrl I'inchot, and his chief, Secretary ol the Interior K. A. I'.alliuger. The (piarrel was concerned with I'inehot's charges that llallinger favored 11 is friends in the disi ribul ion and sale ol certain Government lands. itallingcr reiterated his honesty in these transactions, and .Mr Tall, asked .Mr I'inchot to he good and let. the matter blow over. Criticisms ol superior officers by i.hcir subordinates do not add to the lustre of administration discipline. I'inchot: refused to let a thing that he believed wrong "blow over."' Ho sought. to win the ear of the President, and placed Tat't in a jio-iiion that made dismissal necessary. "Now that it has come." wrote a correspondent a lew weeks ago, "the fight between the U ooM've It Radicals —el' whom (lifford I'inchot is now head and front -and the. Conservative win;* of the Republican Partv is on in earnest, ftvni before I hi- President's letter dismissing I'inchot was -given oni. it had bejoin in the Mouse of Represent al i<'r*. hv the defeat of Ihe Conservative Republic,'ins by the Radicals in combination with this Democrats. The ultra-conservative Speaker, Mr Cannon, for once was helpless. The allies took away from him the opportunity to appoint his supporters as members of a joint committee to investigate the entire HallillgerPinchot, affair, and placed it in the hands of the entire House. This at least ensures a fair light. That it wilt be a great fight- now one now doubts."]