SPEAKER CANNON AND THE PARTIES.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12749, 22 March 1910, Page 2

SPEAKER CANNON AND THE PARTIES.

ALLEGED PARTISANSHIP. [Press Association — CoFYEioirr.J New York, March 20. , Thirty-five dissatisfied Republicans , combined with the Democrats to curtail the powers of the Speaker of the , House of Representatives, alleging , that Mr Joseph Cannon used his power to nominate cominitteemen 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 the Rules Committee, which deals with the precedence of private members' bills, than a rowdy debate sprang up which ended in the House refusing the demand . of the Democrats to depose Mr Cannon, honcc the insurgent Republicans had to be satisfied with curtailing the Speaker's power.