CANNON 13 SHORN
OF HIS POWER
Eliminated From Committee on
Rules by a Vote of
191 to 155
HOUSE REFUSE TO OUST HIM
Resolution Declaring the Bpeaker'a
Chair Vacant Defeated by 36 Ma
jority—Democrats and Insurgents
Win Their Long Fight.
Official Record of the Downfall of
Cannon.
Washington, Mar. 22.—Following la
the chronological record of the vari
ous roll calls taken by tlio House of
Representatives In the historic strug
gle over Speaker Cannon:
Yeas. Nays.
On Dalzell's motion to lay on
table Norris's appeal from
Speaker's ruling 164 181
On Norris's motion ordering
the previous question on
his appeal 182 160
On "Shall the ruling of the
Chair be sustained?" 160 182
On ordering previous ques
tion on adoption of Norris
substitute 178 159
To substitute the new Norris
resolution for the old,
offered Thursday 193 15S
To adopt the Norris resolu
tion 191 155
On Burleson's resolution to
declare the Speaker's
chair vacant 155 191^
Having beaten Speaker Cannon on 6
consecutive roll calls by majorities
ranging from 17 to 40, and after ;
throwing him off the Committee on |
Rules, whk'h had been the citadel of,
his power in the House, the Republi
can Insurgents turned squarely araund
and helped to give him a tremendous ■
vote of confidence, which was tanta
mount to re-electing him to the
Speakership by a majority of 36, tea
more votes than the majority had giv
en him upon his election to the place
a year ago.
Only eight insurgents voted against
Mr. Cannon on the last roll call. By
the other insurgents the result is re
garded as a long step toward harmony
In the Republican Party and the elecv j
tlon of a Republican House next No
vember. By the regulars it is openly
hailed as a great victory for the,
speaker, and their rejoicing not only |
filled the House with cheers but Is
yet resounding everywhere they meet.
The Norris resolution, providing.
for the election of an enlarged Com- j
mittee on Rules on which the Speak- j
er should not be a member, after hav- ■
lng been amended so as to avoid the !
division of the House into groups, as
at first proposed, and making the j
membership of the new committee ten
Instead of fifteen with election by the,
House within ten days, was adopted i
by a vote of 191 to 155 after a long
and exciting day of roll calls and de
bate.
Then came a speech from Mr. Can-1
Hon, In which he declared that only j
two courses lay open to him —-one
■was to resign, the other, to entertain
a motion to declare the Speakership
vacated. He refused to resign, first,
because it would cause a chaotic con
dition in the House through the neces
sity of effecting reorganization in
mid-session, thereby endangering the
Important Administration lebislation,
and, second, because resignation
would be confession of either erroi or
misdoing, neither of which he would
admit. So he urged the new majority
to put its strength to the test, to
show the courage of its convictions,
and submit the motion vacating the
Speakership.
Mr. Norris, the insurgent leader,
whose alertness had brought about
the possibility of administering the de
feat to the Speaker, sought to have
the House adjourn, but, as has often
happened when the Republicans find I
themselves In a hole, a Democrat "as j
fortnd In the person of Mr. Burleson .
of Texas, who was ready to help puH
them out again.
By a vote of 191 to 155, the Republi
can Insurgents voting solidly with the
Democrats, the House had adopted the
resolution of Representative Norris,
Republican, of Nebraska, requiring a
reorganization of the Rules Commit
tee, Increasing its membership from
five to ten, and declaring the Speaker
Ineligible to membership thereon.
By the curiously identical vote of
191 to 155 —but with a decidedly dif
ferent personnel of alignment—the
House defeated a resolution of Repre
sentative Burleson of Texas declar
ing the Speakership vacant and order
ing an Immediate election of a succes
sor to Mr. Cannon.
Opinion was <yvided in Washing
ton as to the effect of the overthrow
of Bpeaker Cannon's power. Presi
dent Taft Bald he had read Chairman
Payne's statement that the action of
the House would accelerate leglsla
tlon and said he hoped It was so.
Champ Clark said the Democrats had
won a great victory.
Woman Dies at Age of 107.
Belleville, N. J., Mar. 18.—Miss
Martina Whits, the oldest woman In
this town, If not in the state, died last
night at the Home for Incurables, at
Rldgewood, age of 107 years.
WORLD NEWS OF
THE WEEK.
Coveting Minor Happenings From
All Over the Globe
DOMESTIC.
Charles E. Littlefield, special mas
ter, has reported that West Virginia
should pay to Virginia a proportion of
the latter state's indebtedness prior
to the former's statehood; the amount
may run into many millions.
A New York legislative committee
recommended that all telegraph and
telephone companies in the State be
put under the up-State Public Service
Commission and criticised the book
keeping of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies.
President Taft, at Albany, signed
the new tariff agreement with France,
but failed to come to terms with the
Canadian otllrials.
New Jersey Supreme Court, follow
ing an order demanding the production
of the books of Western packers, took
action to hurry the case to final do
cision.
The annual report of tho United
Stetes Steel Corporation shows a
gross business of $046,382,251 in 1909.
The Governor of Georgia refused to
introduce Commander Peary at a lec
ture to be held in Atlanta on the
ground that he had not proved the
truth of ills polar assertions.
Peace negotiations were declared
off by the committee of ten of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company's
striking carmen.
Justice Hirscbberg, in the Supreme
Court, appellate division, referred to
the New York Stock Exchange as "an
association of gamblers of Wall
street.
The Hamburg-American line an
nounces a new service direct to New
Orleans to carry immigrants into the
Southern States.
A united Protestantism was de
manded by 100 New York pastors rep
resenting all denominations. At their
gathering they organized the Clerical
Conference, which will meet regular
ly.
W. C. Maxwell and Frederick G.
Frieser of the Wabash Railroad and
D. O. Ives, formerly of that road,
pleaded "not guilty" in New York
City to indictments charging them
with granting rebates.
WASHINGTON.
President Taft, in a message to the
Canadian people, expresses hope that
tie may find a mutually satisfactory
solution of the tariff problem.
Reports received from Nicaragua
by the State Department are to the
effect that General Estrada plans re
newal of the insurrection.
Argument closed in the Standard Oil
case before the Supreme Court of the
United States, and the corporation's
fate now rests with the Justices.
Japan made tentative proposals to
the United States looking to joint
control of Far Eastern affairs.
The Administration railway bill
was taken up for consideration in the
Senate, but in a half-hearted way.
President Taft sent a special mes
sage to Congress, urging that the gov
ernment take control of the seal isl
ands in Bering Sea.
The legislative appropriation bill
was passed by the House.
President Taft makes clear that Ihe
tariff situation with Canada has
reached a critical stage.
Orders are issued by the Navy De
partment for the withdrawal of the
seven hundred marines on board Jie
Buffalo at Corinto, Nicaragua, to Pan
ama.
Major Henry S. Howe. United
States Army, retired, died In his home
In Washington, 88 years old.
FOREIGN.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt will sail for
New York on June 10 on the Kaiserln
Auguste Victoria, according to Ills
present plans; he announced that his
reception here must be nonpartisan.
The Duke of Orleans issued a mani
festo to his adherents saying that tho
liquidation scandals had proved the
worthlessness of republican institu
tions and that he was ready togo to
Paris when there was a chance of
overturning the present rule.
Ex-President Roosevelt paid another
visit to Omdurman under the guidance
of Slat in Pasha.
Speeches in the House of Lords
showed opposition to changing the
hereditary principle; John Redmond
predicted a general election within a
month.
The French Chamber expresses
confidence in the government's prom
ise of full investigation of the Church
liquidation scandal.
Mme. Breshkovskaya was sen
tenced to exile in Siberia; she has re
fused offers of friends to pay for spe
cial privileges.
Mr. Roosevelt and members of his
family made a tr'p to the battlefield at
Kerreri, returning to Khartoum, where
they were guests at a dinner at the
palace.
Lord Roseberry moved in the up
per house that the peers resolve them
selves in a committee of the whole to
consider reforms and presented a reso
lution that a peerage should not afford
a right to a seat.
The Japanese press sees a presage
of war In Mr. Jacob H. Schiff's speech,
says a special cable despatch from
Tokio.
Secretary Laughlin of the American
Embassy in Germany denied the re
port that his brother Thomas McIC.
Laughlin, who committed suicide in
Pittsburg, behaved erratically while in
Berlin.
'' IS LEPROSY CONTAGIOUS?
Specialists Still Doubtful Whether
One Person Can Give It to Another.
There is possibly no disease the
presence of which inspires greater
fear in the public mind than does
leprosy. This is perhaps in a meas
ure due to the loathesomeness of the
disease in its later stages, but it is in
most cases simply fiinr of a name.
The disease or diseases spoken of
as leprosy in the l!ib!e are popularly
supposed to be the same as the
leprosy of to-day, and the evident feur
the leper inspired in the people of
old Is held to justify the dread with
which he is still regarded. The Bibli
cal descriptions do not, however, fit
modern leprosy, so that whether the
fear of the "leper" of olden times was
or was not justified it should not be
allowed to color the view with which
the leper of to-day is regarded.
Leprosy is indeed an infectious dis
ease, that is to say, it is due to the
presence in the tissues of a bacillus,
after the Norwegian physician who
discovered it; but whether it is con
tagions under the ordinary conditions
of modern life in temperate climates,
at least, is held by specialists in dis
eases of the skin to be very doubtful.
Of tlie few lepers known to the phy
sicians in all the larger cities some
are cared for in hospitals, others live
at home and visit the clinics or the
doctor's office from time to time; yet
an instance in which another person
has ncquired the disease from any of
these lepers is unknown.
There are many diseases more to
bo dreaded than lepr< y because more
rapidly fatal, more painful or more
contagious; yet none of them except
perhaps smallpox is more feared.
The illogical terror of leprosy may
be the cause of great cruelty to those
afflicted. There are thousands of peo
ple who show culpable indifference to
the enforcement of the laws against
spitting in public places, although
they know full well that the success
of the crusade against tuberculosis
hinges largely upon care in this re
gard. Vet these same persons would
fly in horror from any place that had
harbored a leper.
WHAT TO DO.
Suggestion of First Aid to Everybody
on All Occasions.
When a man rushes into your office
hurriedly and says:
"By jingo, Dawson, 1 hate to speak
of it, but I need SSOO like the very old
dickens to-dayL"
Answ.er —What a singular coinci
dence, Blinks; I do, too!"
When the lovely young maiden at
the seaside to whom you have been
paying court all summer shakes her
head violently and says:
"No, Mr. Blithers; I cannot imagine
any circumstances under which I
could be induced to marry you.
Answer- Thanks, Miss Jones. This
Is a great relief. I was afraid you had
misconstrued my attentions, and, of
course, desired to live up to my im
plied obligations.
When you run face to face with
jour tailor upon the street, and he
tni as a cold, beady eye upon you and
Kxcuse me, Mr. Bump, but what
have you to say about my little bill?"
Answer —I don't think I have met
yojir little Bill, Mr. Snipperton. in
deed, I didn't know you had any chil
dren at all."
While ho is recovering from this,
jump into a taxicab and proceed to
!>:< :k the speed laws. —Cariyle Smith,
in Harper's Weekly.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
Wholesale Prices of Farm Products
Quoted for the Week.
MII.K Per quart. 3"-ic.
BUTTER Western extra, 32@33c.{
State dairy, 24® 27c.
CH lESE- State. Full cream, special,
17 % (§>lßc.
EG.iR State. Fair to choice, 21®
2">c.; do, western firsts, 21@20c.
APPLES Baldwin, per bbl., $2.7"i9
4.50.
DRESSED POULTRY—Chickens, per
lb., 15@2*1c.; Cocks, per lb., 14c.;
Squabs, per dozen, $2.00@4.50.
HAY Prime, per 100 lbs.,
STRAW Lon.n ltye, per 100 lbs., 70®
77 y 3 c.
POTATOES S ate, per bbl., $1.37®
1.50.
ONIONS -White, per crate, 40@ 1 75 c.
FLOUR Winter patents, $5.60@6.10j;
Spring patents, $5.60@G.85.
WH'OAT No. 2, red. $1.271/ 2 ; No. 1,
Northern Duluth, $1.27 14.
CORN No. 2, fi« Mc.
OATS Natural white, 50 @52 c.{
Clipped white, 51 54c.
BEEVES- -City Dressed, B@llc.
SHEEP—Per 100 lbs., $5.00@6.00.
CALVES City Dressed, 10%@12c.
LAMBS Per 100 lbs., $8.50@9.50.
HOGS Live, per 100 lbs., sll.oo®
11.25; Country Dressed, per lb., 13®
14c.
DEMOCRATS MAKE GAINS.
Central New York Village Elections
Show Change In Vote.
Utiea, N. Y.. Mar. 21. —Returns of
the village elections throughout Cen
tral New York indicate that the Demo
crats won in a majority of cases. In
Gouverneur it is said that many Re
publicans voted the Democratic ticket
The same condition Is said to hav#
prevailed in Canastota.
Herkimer and Dolgeville have gon«
Democratic, the latter for the first
time in live years.
Philadelphia, Mar. 18. Indictments
charging the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company and the Reading Railway
Company with violating the Elkins act
by granting concessions in the trans
portation of property wero returned bj
a Federal Grand Jury here.
E>i an—ihi——mi—-mi Mll—ug
| The Rescue j
|gn mi—nil——nil—mi—mi——i E
The children could never toll just
how it happened, except that there
was a splash and one of the little boys
was missing from the lloat. In terror
they watched the widening circles on
the water, but he did not come to the
surface. Then a distinct bumping un
der the float at their feet sent them
screaming from the spot. All save
one. A small, fair-haired girl, with a
white, determined face remained.
Throwing herself flat upon her stom
ach, she wound one arm firmly about
an upright of the slight railing, and
thrust the other into the green water
as far under the float as she was able.
Again she heard the terrifying bump
against the timbers, and she grabbed
frantically underneath the lloat in the
direction of the sound, but with 110 re
sults. In an agony of suspense she
waited for him to rise the third time,
then her small hand grasped the hair
of the drowning child, drew him out
into the open and held his head above
water till help came in response to her
shrieks.
"You saved my life once, and I have
sometimes questioned whether its
value to me or to anybody else war
ranted the effort."
The tone was as bitter as the
words, and the clear-cut, handsome
face was overcast.
"You have the ability to make it
valuable or worthless, as you elect.
Your destiny is in your own hands."
"It is not!" he contradicted hotly.
"It's in your hands. Yon can make
me or mar me by just one word! You
saved my life and the responsibility
is yours, not mine!"
She knew him too well to try to
reason with him iu this mopd, and a
silence fell between them. She stood
erect in the shadow of the great pine,
her sweet, pure face, pale and deier
miiied, turned toward the cold sea. His
yearning eyes filled with boyish, an
gry tears as the helplessness of con
tending against her will swept over
him. In shame he dashed away the
drops that hung 011 his lashes.
Then impetuously he took both her
hands. She resisted gently, but he
held them in a strong grasp.
"When will you marry me?" he de
manded, searching her face with hi 9
dark eyes. Unable to withstanding
his look, the honest gray eyes fell and
the rich color flooded her face.
"You love me!" he urged, quick to
seize upon her weakness. "When will
you marry me?"
She raised her clear eyes to his and
ho released her impatiently.
"When you have proved yourself a
man," she replied firmly. "When you
have used your splendid energies for
something besides play." Without
heeding the derision of his glances
she continued. "I could not marry an
idler who Is content to live on his
father's bounty."
"Marry ine, and I'll do everything
you ask me to!"
"You haven't yet done anything I
have asked you to. I low can I hope
for anything better after we are
married. You would not at my ask
ing goto college, nor enter business,
nor give up friends who encourage
laziness. For five years you have
done nothing but cruise about in your
father's yacht and otherwise amuse
yourself."
She saw the storm gathering, but
bravely she finished: "Prove your
self is all I ask!"
lie was smarting under the rebuke
of her words, and his anger flared:
"I'll prove that you had better have
left me under the old float a dozen
years ago!" And with that he left
her.
A falr-liaired girl sat alone on the
trunk of a fallen tree with her face
in her hands.
It was springtime. The pine tree
showed rich nnd dark against the
young green of the birches and ma
ples. The tense figure of a woman
stood 011 the bluff gazing with unsee
ing eyes at the tints of the afterglow.
Five years had passed since he had
left her in anger, and till now she had
hoped for his return. He had never
written, but she had known that his
efforts were for her, and she had been
happy in waiting. For days past she
had felt that he would soon come back
to her, a man, and her heart had cried
out for him. But now —now after all
his toil, his self-denial, his achieve
ment—after all her courage and pati
ence and faith, they would never see
each other again in this world! He
had at last gone down to those waters
from which she had drawn him when
a child; and he would never come
back.
The cracking of a dry twig caused
her to turn with a confusion. The
man standing there saw a white face
full of dumb agony; then lie saw it
suddenly transformed into such a
radiance of joy that he dared not be
lieve it was for him! But she held
out her arms toward him, and mur
muring endearing words he clasped
her to his heart.
"I thought you were drowned!"
"I probably would have been, deir
est, if I had carried out my plans, but
at the last moment such a longing to
see you and claim you came over me
that 1 threw everything over and came
hero as fast as trains could bring me.
Everyone except those 011 tho ill-fated
yacht thought that I I.wl gone on the
trip."
It seemed as if the moments were
too precious for mere words, but pres
ently he said:
"Again you have saved my life,
dear lovey, and it is you, alone, that
have made it worth the saving!"—
MARY B. LEONARD.
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