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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.
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OLD JOE IS MAD
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.