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/ '**' * % % % DOWNTElreNTl The House Repudiates Speaker Cannon and Committee on Rules. FIGHT ON BOSS IS WON Democrats and Insurgents Vote to Overthrow the S|n"?ki'r.?His Killings lluve Been tlie I .aw of, tlie House of Representatives for the I'ast Seven Years. With the warring factions apparently as determined as ever to fight out to the hitter end,. th?? contest that was precipitated Thursday when Representative Morris of Nebraska introduced his now famous resolution to increase the membership of the committee on rules and drop therefrom Speaker Connon, the house of representatives was scheduled to reassemble at noon Saturday and receive the ruling of Speaker Cannon on the point of order raised by Representative Dalzell of Pennsylvania against the measure. Refreshed by many hours of greatly needed rest, the members were expected to gather far more physically fit to confront the dilllcult problem developed by insurgent Republicans and Democratic "allies" Mo whit abated by adjournment shortly previous to four o'clock Friday evening, interest among members, official Washington and the public generally was so pronounced' Saturday that it was clear there would bo practically full attendance on the lloor of the hous<- and that the gallery would be thronged. llefore the house of representatives met at 12 o'c.'ock none could be found who could venture more than an opinion as to what the outcome would be. Readers of the fac tions knew, of course, what respective lines of action probably would be tried, but could not tell what measure of success would result. Much like two nrniies that for many long hours had contended on a field of battle and then, wearied of the 6trife, had rested on arms, neither yielding one Inch of the ground which had been won Saturday stood roady to renew the contllct. Wild cheering of the Republican side of the house greeted Speaker Cannon as he mounted the rostrum at 12 o'clock. The battle was renewed at once when In his ruling Speaker Cannon sustained the point of order against the Norris resolution, holding the Resolution to be ca; of order. Representative Norris appealed from the speaker's ruling and Mr. Dalzell moved to lay the appeal on the table. The roll wa.t euUei aim the motion to lay on the table was lost. The motion of Mr. DalzclM to ia> en the table the nppeal of Mr Nerris from the speaker's ruling was defeated by 164 to 181. The announcement was greeted with yells of delight from the insurgents and democrats. Representative Norris moved The previous question on his r solution shutting off all debate. He stated the debate had already proceeded two days. A roll call on the resolution was then begun. The previous question was ordered by a vote of ayes 182; noes 160. This would bring direct to a vote the anneal front the mi. ing. And the vote was the one that apparently would register the speaker's fall. Thirty-live Republicans voted with the Democrats against the Dalzell motion to lay the Nebrasknn's appeal on the table. The Democrats voted solidly in the negative. The Mouse sustained the appeal from the speaker's ruling. The vote against the speaker was 182 to 160. This brought the Norris resolution question to the front. It was ordered read. The speaker had been repudiated by the house he has ruled for seven years. Ry a vote of 191 to ir>5, the Republican insurgents voting solidly with the Democrats, the house adopted the resolution of Representative Norris (Republican) of Nebraska, requiring a reorganization of the rules committee, increasing its membership from 5 to 10, and declaring the Speaker ineligible to membership therein. naving completely repudiated the Speaker and passed an important measure In spite of his opposition to It, there was a disposition on the part of the Democrats to still further humiliate Speaker Cannon by deposing hint, but the curiously identical vote of 191 to 155, the House defeated a resolution of Repres ntative Rurleston of Texas, declaring the speakership vacant and ordering an immediate election of a successor of Mr. Cannon. Gruesome Direction. Among the peculiar provisions the will of the late John Greene Hallance. who died in Miami, Fla., a month ago, was one giving his body to the Peoria Medical Society for dissection. . L. OLD JOE IS MAD ? MARKS A BITTER ATTACK OX THE IXUSIIGEXTS. Denounces Them Vnscathint;ly.?tleferred to Tliem tu Feeble Minded, Insane and Cranks. With eyes Blowing defiance and voice thundering at his enemies, with all the day's pent-up bitterness, Speaker Cannon made a vitriolic attack on the "hybrid house majority" at the annual dinner of the Illinois Republican Association Saturday night. His face was worn from the force of the terrific assault made upon him and his voice lacked its old jauntim ss and resonance. A startling statement made by the power-shorn but defiant speaker was that the Republicans so longer have a majority iu the Senate. "My God," he cried with great solemnity, "Blippose this 150 pounds of common clay should drop dead to-night, what would the newspapers and magazines which made a profession of lying and slandering do then? "My daughters, grandchildren, my son-in-law would be sorry. Hut the balance of the world would not have time to worry. There never was a truer word said than 'let the dead bury its dead." If that were not true, then the world would be one vast house of mourning. "I know people who think they monojKjlize the wires front earth up to the great white throne. They do not give the majority of us a chance. They are eurealls, they think God and one const itute a majority, forgetting that God alone is a majority, and can well do without their help. "We're thankful for Christian morality. Once in a while we fistd people who have a tnono|K>Iy of all know led ire, and therefore should be indicted, and proseeut d under the Sherman Anti-Trust law. All who disagree with them are anathema. "It's uncomfortable sometimes to live in a Government by the people There will always be some who are feeble minded, abnormal, Insane, or to use a shorter and more common word, they are cranks. But we've got to have them. "There was a new majority made today. It consisted of the Democrats and a 15 per cent slough from the Republican party. They destroyed the committee on rules. Then what did they do? a resolution was presented declaring the ollice of Speaker vacant. 'Then what did these men who have been denouncing my personality, these simon-pure followers of Cummins and LaFollette do then? only eight of them had the courage of their convictions. The result was] that, while I was elected Speaker by a majority of 26 last March, they refused to turn me out by & majority of 36. "That was a way this Republican slough started in its new alliance." TWO KIIiLKI) IN ROW. At Railroad Camp Where Many Shots Were Fired. A dispatch from Mullins to The State says two negro s were shot to pieces and, it is stated, several others were wounded in a row at a camp on the North and South Carolina rigid about a mile from that place In which 40 or 60 shots wore fired. There w< re a dozen or so shots fired through both the negroes who were killed. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that the negroes catne to their death from wounds inflicted by persons unknown to the iury. The row was at the camp of Contractor Sehultz of Columbia, and was caused by mean whiskey, which the hands had imbibed too freely. \ Menace to llealtli. In order to show that spi' iiiR on tile sidewalks Is iVngerous *o health, an investigation l as been made by Dr. John Uob'-t.son, Medical Health Officer of Bit r.ti'.gl am, En;rl"t?? ' a:.d si ows hat sev3 p?r cent of the "i pits" collected in niihlto ' tained consumption genua On the other hand dust collected from the tloors of the cottages of the Adirondack Cottage S.in'tarluni Iia3 been found to be free of tuberulosla germs, showing that a careful consumptive is not dangerous. Shot by llis Sister. As a result of a quarrel over the boundary line between their plantation? Will Wolfolk was shot and probably wounded by Mrs. Fannie] Perry, his sister, near Perry, Ga.t on Saturday. Wolfolk sent some negro s to work in a field In the disputed territory and his sister ordered the negroes to leave. A quarrel ensued and the woman secured a shotgun and fired on him at close range. Will l.ose (llllre, J. C Standi, post mast - r of Smithfield, X. C.. was so anxious for reappointment that he wrote his congressman, Mr. Pou, offering him five hundred dollars if he would secure his appointment. Mr. Pou turned the letter over to the postmaster general and now Mr. Standi, whose appointment had been decided upon, will very likely lose his job. J' 9 SCORES THEM Republican Supreme Court Justice Expresses His Yiews. ROASTS HIS OWN PARTY Declares that the Conditions in New York ore Scandalous, and that the Democrats Are to B? Patterned After and Culh Gaynor a Keul Reformer. Recent attempts to organize the Republican party in New York State were humbuggery; the Allds-Conger investigation at Albany is an expensive and almost useless undertaking for which "50 cents worth of whitewash" would be a suitable substitute; and William J. Gaynor. mayor of New York, is a real reformer with a purpose. These views were expressed in a speech at Troy, N. Y., recently by W. O. Howard, a State Supreme Court Justice, and a Republican. Professional reformers, the justice denounced as "vapid, sapless, spineless, chinless, sexless beings, sprung from no race and owned by no race." . The justice was speaking at a St Patrick's Day dinner of the Sons of St. Patrick of Troy, and after a tribute to the Irish he took up the present political situation in this State, growing out of the Allds-Con$?r case. He said in part: "In my own party a queer condition exists and, in consequence, every one is seized just now with a desire to clean house. Whether it is to be cleaned out I have not. learned, but fifty thousand dollars is to bo spent to clean house; 50 cents worth of whitewash would do as well. Of course a few dead Ixulies may be rattled by these investigations. or, perhaps a few live ones, fully protected by the statute of limitations. Hut suppose they are rattled?what follows? Even if somebody is punished, what of that? No reform is worked. J "It is not more investigations that , .. t .n-c-u, 11 is more honesty; not moro laws, but more common sense. I We have too many laws now?so I many that nobody knows what they are nor where they are. "The way to clean house Is the way that Clay nor is doing it. Ills way doesn't cost a cent. Ho is not a counterfeit reformer but a real one. He is cleaning house with the laws which he has; they do not assist mm much nor hinder him any? he would do it if he had no laws at all. He saws wood. He will clean up New York before he gets through with it and clean it up well at a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayers." He then declared that "in fact he is accompishing more reform than all the self-confessed reformers put together." Shifting to the recent attempt of Senator Elihu Root and others to reorganize tho Republican State committee with the ousting of Timothy L. Woodruff, the State chairman, he said: "A general alarm having been occasioned by recent disclosures, everybody, a few weeks ago, was to get behind one virtuous leader and obey him in all things so that the party might ho saved. Now a different plan has been adopted. - vne Democrats are to be patterned after and the State committee must be overhauled. "The hum buggery of it all appalls me. There seems to be no candor in it. no straightforward dealing and 1 wonder that the people can be so easily fooled." * OUPKUKI) IIIM TO WOltK. IMnyed Sick Higlit Years Hut Drew His Wages. An Investigation in the office of the New York city register lias unearthed the record holder for 'ong distance illness among officeholders, in the person of Matthew Farrell, a custodian. According to the regist? r. Farrell has been reporting ill for S years and dunng all that time has been carried on the ] uvroll. A physician from the coniptrolle/'s office sent to examine Farrell report* d him | in sound physical and mental condi- ! lion and he has been * * ?.*-l w.l 11 1 ?>port at once for duty on penalty of instant discharge. * Mistaken the Symptoms. The socalled religious man who s;ni's ahout with a Ion4 face and his lip hanging down over his chin, has mistaken a case of dysp psia for a change of heart. The true Christian has a ready made smile always on top and is glad in heart all the day long, from January 1, till the general judgment. ' Dance Muds in Death. At a country dance in the "Nip and-Tuck" neighborhood, in 1'nion parish. 20 miles north of Monroe, Da., two men were killed and four others wounded. The dead are Jack Nolan and Arthur Noland. All of I the wounded are. Xolands. I rwsr, tr. ravrnrrigfr ' V MIND WAS BLANK ONCE ALBRT MAN LEARNING TO TALK AND WHITE. Injur)- Sustained While on a Kailroad Rendered His Memory Blank. Father Had to be Introduced. yvo months ago Otto Raschke was a keen, alert business man of Omaha, Neb. Toi^iy he is learning his alphabet, getting acquainted with his own wife and children and be comlug accustomed to the wot Id that it about him. Ilis mind is like that of a child. The change came about as the result of a railroad accident in which Mr. Raschke suffe;?d an injury to his head. Doctors declare his is the most completo case of aphasia they have ever observed. They predi t that he will recover completely, but slowly or that some of tltese da.u he will become his former self in an instant and will forget ail that has happened from the time of his injury to the time of liIs recovery. I hvsicaliy he is said to be in She best condition. It was early in January that Raschke was returning from a business trip to Slous City. At Bancroft, Neb., he swung off the train for a breath of fresh air. As the train started he stepped aboard. Befo-o he got his balance the train lurched and his head struck the brass r.vl He fell fro.n the platform, was picked ip in ail unconscious condbion and ?iis taken to Omaha. When he recovered consciousness his mind was a complete blank. He heard the nures and physiciat'3 talking and tried to imitate them The ability to talk returned rapidly. One lay his wife and two little hov> were ulmitted to the -->.->111. Not a sign >f recognition di 1 lit show. "Don't you know us. Otto?" asked Mrs. Raschke, with tears in her eyes. "I never saw you before," answered Otto. He was told that this was his wife, qnd that the children were his own. "Tli:it'o fiitmv " - - 1 mi - ....v M . i.iij, lie Oiliu. J III! itl<?a of me having a wife and children." After three weeks in the hospital, luring which he learned to walk a little, Raschke was taken to his home, which he did not recognize when he entered. With a child's inability to judge distance, Raschke was at first afraid to attempt to walk, for fear of falling. "Who is that man?' he asked. "Tell him to go out." "Why, Otto, that's your father," he was told by his wife. Raschke had been very fond of his father, but in his new condition he abhors tho very sight of him. Formerly Raschke was an inveterate smoker. Soon after his return home he saw a man smoking and asked what he was doing. He was offered a cigar, but declared he did not like the odor. A week later he smoked one and was made violently ill. The most wonderful thing he has seen so far is a horse, he never tires of watching the wagons pass his house. When a four-horse dray came by he screamed with delight and called his wife to see the wonderful sight. "They tell me she is my wife and that these children are mine," said Raschke the other day, " I have taken their word for so many things that 1 urn believing them in this, but It seems mighty strange to in'1. At first I did not know how to think j about them, but I grew to love them again. Everything is new and I am learning every minute. There is so much to learn. "The doctors tell me that some day I may recover. They say it may lie slow, just a .little bit at a time, or that everything may be made clear in a twinkle. In the latter rase they tell me that I will forget all these days and that there will be a gap between the time they say I fell from the train and the time that I awake, and that I will never know anything about those days. People come to see me and tell me they are friends of mine. I don't know them. I never saw them before. Some of them I like and some I do not like." Raschke's two little boys are as fond of him as ever and climb around on their father's knees as they always did. He has grown very fond of them and keeps them with him all the time. Srnnii on- it-..# At Harmony, Ala., an attempt was made to assault Miss Allie Whitehead Friday night last. She awoke to find a man in her room, and screamed as he pulled the cover from her. The intruder jumped from a window and escaped on a horse. She could not tell whether he was white or hlaek. A drug had been poured on her pillow. ClaiuitMl l?y Three. Women in Lexington. S. C., Augusta. Oa., and Jacksonville, Fla., all claiming to he widows of James R. Herbert, an engineer killed on the Southern railway two years ago. at Trenton. S. 0., lay claim to Herbert's Insurance of $11,000 in th<; I'.rotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. i WAS LIKE ICE Peary Found Atlanta Even Frostier Than the Arctic Circle. SMALL CROWD HEAR HIM And it Was us Cold as an Ice Berg from tlio Frozen North Sous.? The Reception Which He Did Not Receive Indicated That He Had Reached Furtherest North. Some idea of the frigid treatment given Commander Peary laBt week may be inferred from the following account of his reception from the Journal: Peary doesn't look like a liar. He doesn't talk like a braggart. That he is a brave man he proved beyond cavil Wednesday night by appearing at the auditorium-armory, for it is doubtless if any dauntless explorer ever encountered hardships in the cruel, frozen north, half so heart-rending or pitiful as the reception accorded Commander Peary in Atlanta. Atlanta, the most hospitable city in the south, deliberately shut her doors in his face. Peary has not seen the real Atlanta at all. The small, undemonstratcd, chilly crowd that huddled together in the centre of the desolate autitorium came here skeptical and went away unconvinced. Poor, pitiful Peary. The lecture was advertised to hegin at 8:30 o'clock. When that hour arrived, a few hundred impatient people were scattered among'the vacant seats In the vast amphitheatre, occassionally stamping the feet and clapping to keep themselves warm. The minutes sped. The cold and impatience increased. Have you ever seen the brethren and sisters waiting for the late parson at a Wednes lay night prayer meeting in a small town? That is what the scene suggested. Presently upon the barren stage appeared F. L. Seely and Commander Peary. Mr. Seely said he didn't known whether his speech ought to he an intrductory address of welcome or an apology. It turned out to he an an apology. Then Commander Peary arose. At the same instant a couple of hundred I people arose in the galleries and stampeded for the lower floor. Thny made more noise than a small < irth<l uake. Mr. Teary stood his ground. However the demonstration was not hoslile. !. was not a riot. The people w*r* w.mply seeking better tea's. At length Commander Peary began to speak. Before he had ta'Ued five minutes he had convinced his hearers that he had an ineresting story to tell. His hearers continued doubt, but iea?ed to dlsli te ibo explorer. Not one wo nl did he gar of Dr. Cook, not one word of Governor Rrown's criticism or Mayor Ma.iuox's unwillingness to welcome him. The spirit of rough, ungentlemanly braggadocio which has been attributed to him in more than one newspaper report was pleasantly lacking. He jarred upon nobody. After exhibiting two or three maps showing the location of the north poie with adjacent lands and icy sens, he plunged directly in medias res and told the story of hi t latest and last expedition in tie* frozen north. lie was not argumentative ar nielodramic. A splendid collection of intensely interesting photographs, poorly thrown upon the screen, constituted the principal features of the evening. Practically everything he said was in explanation of tho pictures. The only reference he made to the popular doubt that he had reached the pole wf.s a short statement tending to refute the objection that ho had made more speed after he loft his supporting party than he had made with it. In the first place, in all arctic exploration, said ho, the final dash was necessarily more rapid. It was supposed to be. That was why the last stage was always called the "dash for the pole." A regiment could progress at a certain speed, said he. A picked company from that regiment could go still faster. A picked squad from that company could make still better time, and the crack sprinter of that squad could go the fastest of all. The last dash he said, was made practically in that way. with the Incumbrance of supporting parties and heavy baggage left Ir hind. Commander Peary was heard with intense interest, but there was no enthusinsism when he flashed upon the serene his picture of the stars and stripes nailed to the "top of the world." and there was no ovation after the lecture en led. Dies by ller Own Hand. Circumstances of a nature unreveabd having interposed to prevent her marriage with the man she loved. Florenne Francis, a young woman who went to New York from Alabama. drank poison at her home and died a few hours later in Bellevue hospital Snturady. BIG POLITICAL WAR S RKCKXT ItATTLE MAY CAUSE I MORB TROUBLE. Insurgents Fwl that Blunder May V V Have Been Suae ip aot Ousting 1 Speaker Cannon. 1 Tho Titanic struggle over he Speakership of the House of Reprw- v sentatives. which reached its climax late Saturday in (he destruction of tho Speakers power in the committee on rules and the determination hy the ilouse to reconstruct that com m it tee, yet, leaving Mr. Cannon the Speakership itself may have marked not so much the euding of th.? ihiee days" battle as the beginning of a great political war. Hgrdly anybody in Washington thinks the condition of affairs after the momentous battle rwinwoiao _ . uv m o <*njr satisfactory conclusion. The Speaker and his friends appear to interpret the r* fasal of the House to de|K)se him as justifying them in claiming to have wrested victory from defeat. endorsement from repudiation. Not a few of the insurgents who voted for Mr Cannon's retention are wondering if they made a political blunder. The Republican regulars complacently claim that the insurgents who voted for the Speaker have returned to the party fold. Nobody seems entirely happy about the outcome lCven in the senate the regulars are apprehensive lest the insurgent conflagration may he about to spread to that House; the insurgent Senators are wondering whether they have made the most of their opportunit ies. Speaker Cannon's defiant speech on Saturday night before the Illinois Republican Association, in which ho contemptuously denounced le- insurgent ut mlars if the Ho ne wno stood by hint in the final l-'st as "cowardly members of Congress, without the courage of their convictions" has cut to the quid*, those men who responded with tiuic votes to what they say thej l>elh'ved ?o ,e their duty to the party and to the country, and saved him from utter h umiliation. "If this ho the manner of our treatment for saving the Republican party," said one of them Sunday, who refused to allow his nunio to be used, "this battle just ended will lie followed by another lieside which the lirst one would be hut a skirmish. "I can speak for 110 one lint myself, hut if this is to be our reoen noil, I am done. Wo wore not cowards. We. of the insurgentwho east our votes Saturday against unseating Canson, were the brav- st men in that House. It took oonsumate courage, and it will probably cost mo my seat in Congress. Hut if we are to be met with calumny because we sacrificed ourselves to save the House of Representatives from chaos and disorder and to prevent the ruin of the Republican party, then 1 am in favor of carrying this war to the finish." This member said he had talked with one or two others of the insurgent leaders who voted to save Cannon, and they were in a similar frame of mind. ill'.XOl.T A<;.\IXST MATRON. Five Hundred Girls in State Industrial School t'gly. Five hundred girls in the State Industrial School at Res Moines, Iowa, broke into an open r* volt on Thursday afternoon. Furniture was smashed and tin* tills threatened to demolish the buildings. Miss llattie Harrison, tin* matron, telephoned to Governor Carroll for assistance, and nniet - * , ? . nuiieu \v 11 on eight girls, inmates of the institution, were locked up for ton days in the Polk county jail after pleading guilty to rioting and destroying State property. Defiant to the last the girls declared that tie y would rather be imprisoned in a dirty jail than to live in the care of Miss Hattie Garrison, superintendent of the reformatory. Governor Carroll ordered an inquiry of the schools management. Shot l?y Her Lover. "Because she refused to receive his attentions, William Sohraoder Sunday shot and ki 1 led Bertha Singley, aged 20. at Lewiston, Pa. The girl was out on horseback riding and stopped for a drink of water at tho home of her sister, wle re Schraeder boarded. Tho latter fired from an up-stairs window and the girl fell dead from her horse. Sebr .1 l >V il? raptured and taken to jail l?y the girl's father. Commits Suicide. After receiving a letter front his flanre breaking ' ff their engagement, Anthoney Tioniensky, tit Granite City, 111., shot himself through the lung and through tin heal. Weeding profusely he walked a block to a saloon, waving the revolver, and clinging to the bar, lie corn pel led every person in the place to drink to the woman's health. As the toast was finished, Tiemensky sank unconscious to the floor and died in a few moments.