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DOWN HE WENT' Ihe House Repudiates Speaker Cannou and Committee on Rules. FIGHT ON BOSS IS WON Democrats ami Insurgents Vote to Overthrow the Speaker.? Ills Hillings Have Been the I.aw of the House of Kepresentatives for the Past Seven Years. "With the warring factions apparently as determined as ever to light out to the bitter end, the contest that was precipitated Thursday when Renresentative Norris of Nebraska introduced his now famous resilutiou 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" No 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 thero would be practically full attendance 011 the floor of the house and that the gallery would by thronged. Before the house of representatives met at 12 o'clock none could bo found who could venture more than an opinion as to what the outcome would be. Leaders of the factions knew, of course, what respective lines of action probably would be tried, but could not tell what measure of success would result. xviucn line iwo armies inai ror many long hours had contended on a field of battle and then, wearied of the strife, had rested 011 arms, neither yielding one inch of the ground which had been won Saturday stood ready to renew the conllict. Wild cheering of the Republican side of the house greeted Speaker Gannon as bo 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 tho resolution to be ?;j: of order. Representative Norris appealed from the speaker's ruling an 1 M-\ Palzcll moved to lay the appeal on the table. The roll wax caller, and the motion to lay on the table was lost. ? The motion of Mr. DalzeRl to ia> on the table the appeal of Mr. Norris from the speaker's ruling was defeated by 10 4 to 181. The announcement was greetod with yells of delight from the insurgents and democrats. Representative Norris moved The previous question on his resolution 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 voto of ayes 182; noes 100. This would bring direct to a vote the appeal from the speaker's ruling. And tho voto was the one that apparently would register the speaknr'o fall V* o I. ei 1 I. Thirty-five Republicans voted with the Democrats against the Dalzell motion to lay the Nebraskan's appeal 011 tlie table. The Democrats voted solidly in the negative. The House sustained the appeal from the speaker's ruling. The vote against the speaker was 1S2 to 1G0. This brought the Norrls resolution question to the front. It was ordered read. The speaker had been repudiated by the house he has ruled for seven years. By a vote of 191 to 155, 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. Having completely repudiated the k Speaker and passed an important r measure in spite of his opposition to It, there was a disposition 011 the part of the Democrats to still further humiliate Speaker Cannon by deposing him, but the curiously identical vote of 191 to 155, the House defeated a resolution of Representative Burleston of Toxas, declaring the speakership vacant and ordering an immediate election of a successor of Mr. Cannon. This ended the three days battle, K," SUBSC r OLD JOE IS MAD N MAKKS A ISITTKK ATTACK OX T1IK lXl'SUCKNTS. Denounces Tht'in t'nscathingly.?Referred to Them as Feeble Minded, Insane and Cranks. With eyes glowing defiance and voice thundering at his enemies, with all the day's pent-up bittern* ss, 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 noon him and his voice lacked its old jauntitnss and resonance. A startling statement made by the power-shorn but defiant speaker was that the Republicans so longer have a majority in the Senate. "My God," he cried with great solemnity, "suppose 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. Rut 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 bo one vast house of mourning. "I know people who think they monopolize the wires from earth up to the great white throne. They do not give the majority of us a chance. They are cu real Is, they think God and one constitute 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 find people who have a monopoly of all knowledge, and therefore should bo indicted, and prosecuted 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 ninm f?Afnim/\n word, they are cranks. But we've got to have them. "There was a new majority made today. It consisted of tho Democrats and a 15 per cent slough from the Republican party. They destroyed tho committee on rules. Then what did they do? a resolution was presented declaring the otllco of Speaker vacant. "Then what did thoso men who have been denouncing my personality, theso simon-pure followers of Cummins and LaFolldtte do then? only eight of them had tho courage of their convictions. The result was that, while I was elected Speaker by a majority of 2G last March, they refused to turn me out by a majority of 36. "That was a way this Republican slough started in its new alliance." TWO KILLKI> IN HOW. At Railroad Camp Whore Many Shots Were Fired. A dispatch from Mulllns to The State says tvo negroes were shot to pieces and, it is stated, several others were wounded in a row at a camp on the North and South Carolina road about a mile from that place in which 40 or 50 shots wero fired. There were a dozen or so shots tired through both the negroes who were killed. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that the negroes came to their death from wounds inflicted by persons unknown to the jury. The row was at the camp of Contractor Schultz of Columbia, and was caused by mean whiskey, which tho hands had imbibed too freely. V Menace to Health. In order to show that spit .lug on fil*? Qlilowoll/a !a .4 n~ " 1--UI v..? u,uv?uing .."3 iriigUIUUa *J 110111111, an investigation has been made by Dr. John Robs'tson, Medical Health Officer of I3ii cu \gl ain, Enjrlat. I and si ows : hat sev^i p^r cent of the "> i?ltsM collect ci ir public contained consumption gerni3 On the other hand dust collected from the floors of the cottages of the Adirondack Cottage San'tariuni has been found to lie free of tuberulosis germs, showing that a careful consumptive Is not dangerous. Will Lose OiTlce. J. C. Standi, postmaster of Smlthfleld, N. C., was so anxious for reappointment that he wrote his congressman, Mr. Pou, offering him live hundred dollars If he would secure his appointment. Mr. Pou turned the letter over to the postmaster general and now Mr. Standi, whoso appointment had been decided upon, will very likely lose his job. which onded in a complete victory for the Insurcrent Rftniihlioonto o?wi . w ,rv. v.IVHHtn CftllW I Democrats, the House adjourned. * H NO SCORESTHEM Republican Supreme Court Justice Expresses His Views. ROASTS HIS OWN PARTY Declares that the Conditions in New York are Scandalous, and that the Democrats Are to lie Patterned After and Calls Cjiaynor a lteal Reformer. Recent attempts to organize the Republican party in New York State were imiiiouggery; the Allds-Conger investigation at Albany is an expensive and almost useless undertaking for which "r?0 cents worth of whitewash" would be a suitable substitute; and William J. Claynor, mayor of Now 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 In; took up the present political situation in this State, gt-owing out of the Allds-Conger case. He said in part: "In my own party a queer condition exists and, in consequence, every one ic seized just now with a desire to clean house. Whether it is to lie 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 bodies 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 iu wnvi;n,i "It is not more Investigations that J wo need, it ia more honesty; not I more laws, but more common souse. I Wo have too many laws now?so 1 many that nobody knows what they I arc nor whero they aro. I "The way to clean house is the 1 way that Gaynor is doing It. I lis I way doesn't cost a cent. lie is not I a counterfeit reformer but a real I one. Ho is cleaning house with the I laws which ho has; they do not assist him much nor hinder him any?I ho would do it if he had no laws at I all. Ho saws wood. Ho will cloan I up New York before ho gets through I with it and clean it up well at a I saving of hundreds of thousands of I dollars to tho taxpayers." He then I leclared that "in fact ho Is accom-1 pishing more reform than all the I s&f -confessed reformers put together." ! Shifting to the recent attempt of I Senator Bllhu Root and others to re-1 organize tho Republican State com-1 mittee with the ousting of Timothy I Ij. Woodruff, the State chairman, ho sa id: "A general alarm having been oc-1 casioned by recent disclosures, every-1 body, a fow weeks ago, was to get I behind one virtuous leader and obey I him in all things so that the party I might bo saved. Now a different I plan has been adopted. 1 "The Democrats are to be pat-1 terned after and tho State committee I must bo overhauled. "The humbuggery of it all appalls! me. There seems to be no candor I in it, no straightforward dealing and I wonder that the people can bo sol easily fooled." * orih;ri:i> iiim to work. j Played Sick Might Years lint Drew j His Will's. An investigation in the ofilco of the New York city register lias unearthed the record holder for 'ong distance illness among officeholders, in the person of Matthew Parrel!, a custodian. According to the register, Parrell has been reporting id for 8 years and dining all that lime has been carried on the u.vroll. A physician from the comptroller's office sent to examine Parrell reported him in sound physical and mental condition and he has been ordered t / report at once for duty on penalty of instant discharge. * Dance Puds in Death. At a country dance in the "Nip and-Tuck" neighborhood, in Union parish, 20 miles north of Monroe, i/n., two men were kill*ul and four others wounded. The dead are Jack No km and Arthur Noland. All of the wounded are Nolands. * W TO MIND WAS BLANK OXOK ALERT MAX LEARNING TO TALK ANI) W1UTE. Injury Sustained While on a Hnill'oud Ki'iidercil Ills Memory lllank. 1 Father Had to l>o liitrodured. Two months ago Otto llaschkc was a keen, alert business man of Omaha, Neb. Today ho Is learning his alphabet, getting acquainted \n i11 i his own wife and children and he coming accustomed to the woild that it about him. His mind is like that of a child. The change came about as the result of a railroad accident in which Mr. Raschke suCfo.^d an injury to his head. Doctors declare his Is the most complete ease of aphasia they have ever observed. They prcdi t that he will recover completely, but slowly or that some of these d&.?o he will h'conio his former self in ap Instant and will forget all that has happened from the time of his injury to the time of his recovery. 1 hysically he is said to be in the best condition. It was early in January that Raschke was returning from a business trip to Sious City. At Hancroft, Neb., swung off the train for a breath of frcsil air. As the train started he stepped aboard. ilefo o he got l.is balance the train lurched and his head struck the brass r.ul Ho fell from tho platform, was picked ap in nn unconscious condition and was taken to Omaha. When lie recovered consciousness his mind was a complete blank, ile heard the 1111 res and physicians talking and tried to imitate them The ability to talk returned rapidly. One day his wife and two little bovs were admitted to the -v>m. Not a sign of recognition dl 1 1st show. "Don't you know us, Otto?" asked Mrs. Raschke, with teara 111 her eyes. "I never saw you before," answered Otto. lie was told that this was his wife, and that the children wore his own. "That's funny," lie said. "The idea of me having a wife and children." After three weeks in the hospital, during which lie learned to walk a littlo, Raschke was taken to his homo, which ho did not recognize when he entered. With a child's inability to judge distance, Raschke was at first afraid to attenint in wniL for four of falling. "Who is that man?' ho asked. "Toll him to go out." "Why, Otto, that's your father," ho was told by his wife. Raschke had been very fond of his father, hut in his now condition ho abhors the very sight of him. Formerly Raschkp was an inveterate smoker. Boon after his return homo ho saw a man smoking and asked what he was doing. Ho was offered a cigar, but declared ho did not like the odor. A week later he smoked one and was made violently ill. The most wonderful thing ho 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 Itaschko the other day, " I have taken their word for so many things that I am believing them in this, but it seems mighty strange to mo. At first I did not know how to think about them, but I grew to love them again. Hverything 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 be slow, just a little bit at a time, or that everything may lie made clear in a twinkle. in the latter case they toll me that I will forget all these days and that there will bo a gap between the time they say f ff'll from tlln t?nln 11 * ' < isc vi <1111 mm i in; iirne 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 thorn. 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 kneeg as they always did. lie has grown very fond of them and keeps them with him all the time. * Scared Off Unite. At Harmony, Ala., an attempt was made to assault Miss Allie Whitehead Friday night last. She awoke to find a ;nan in her room, and screamed as hi; pulled the cover from her. The intruder jumped from a window and escaped on a horse. She could not tell whether ho was white or black. A drug had been poured 011 her pillow. I THE HO BE ' WAS LIKE ICE . Peary Found Atlanta Even Frostier Than the Arctic Circle. SMALL CROWD HEAR HIM And it Was as ('old as an Ice llcru from (ho Frozen North Seas.? The lloception Which lie Hid Not Keceive Indicated That lie Had Keneltcd Furtlierest North. Some idea of the frigid treatment given Commander Peary last wook may be inferred from the following account of his reception from the Journal: Peary doesn't look like a liar. lie 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, undemoustrated, 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 vacaut seats in the vast amphitheatre, occassionally stamping tho feet and clapping to keep themselves warm. The minutes sped. The- cold and impatienco increased. Have you ever seen the brethren and sisters waiting for the late parson at a Wodnftn day night prayer meeting iu a hiujiII town? That is what the scene suggested. Presently upon the barren stage appeared P. L. Seely and Commander Peary. Mr. Seely said ho didn't known whether his speech ought to he an intrductory address of welcome or an apology. It turned out to be an an apology. Then Commander Peary arose. At the same instant a couple of hundred people arose in the galleries and stampeded for the lower floor. They ir.ad' more noise than a email ? irth i ua ke. Mr. renry stood his ground. Ilo.vcver the demonstration was not hostile. Tr was not a riot. The people wi" s.rnply seeking better ijft.Vs. At length Commander Peary began to speak. Before ho had ta.'ked five minutes lie had convinood his hearers that ho had an in cresting story to tell. His hearers continued ig doubt, hut tensed to disli ce the explorer. Not one wo \1 did he snv of Dr. Cook, not one word of Governor Brown's criticism or Mayor Ma uiox's nnwillingness to welcome him. The spirit of rough, ungentlomanly braggadocio which lias been attributed to him in more than one newspaper report was pleasantly lacking. Ho jarred upon nobody. After exhibiting two or three maps showing the location ot the north pole with adjacent lands and icy seas, lie plunged directly in median res and told the story of hi., latest and last expedition in the frozen north. He was not argumentative :>r meiouramlc. A splendid collection of intensely Interesting photographs, poorly thrown upon tho screen, constituted the principal features of t lie evening. Practically everything ho said was in explanation of tho pictures. Tho only reference he made to the popular doubt that he had reached the pole was a short statement tending to refute the objection that lie had made more speed after ho left 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 tho pole." A regiment could progress at a certain speed, said ho. A picked company from that regiment could j go still faster. A picked squad from that company could make still better time, and tho crack sprinter of that squad could go the fastest of, all. The last dash he said, was made j nraeticnllv tn tuof ?? ..v ... vxuv n <1/ , W 11 II 1110 in- ; cumbrance of supporting parties and heavy baggage loft bohlnd. Commander Peary was hoard with intense Interest, but there was no enthuslasiam when he (lashed upon the serene his picture of the stars and stripes nailed to the "top of tho world," and there was no ovation after the lecture ended. I DRY HEI BIG POLITICAL WAR 1 KKC'EXT BATTLE MAY (Al'SK I MORE TROUBLE. I Insurgents Fool that Blunder MmJ *)9 Have Boon Made ie not Ousting I s Speaker Camion. I The Titanic struggle over *fce fl Speakership of the House <>f Ueprt^ I sentntives, which reached its climax late Saturday in the destruction of ]|H the Speakers power in '' oir.mitt.ee on iiiles and the determination by tie iioiise t > instruct tint com '?H inittee, yet, leaving Mr. Cannon the ' Speakership itself may have marked I i '?i so 11111c>i the ending of tl. > i hiee Jfl days' battle as the beginning of a I great political war. I Hardly anybody in Washington thinks tiio condition of affairs after tin' mono ntoiis battle represents any satisfactory conclusion. The Speak* ^ or. and his friends appear to inter* 1 pret the r l'wsal of the House to de- j pise liiin as justifying them in claim- j ing to have wrested victory from defeat, endorsement from repudiation. Not a few of the insurgents who j voted for Mr Cannon's retention aro ' womb ring if they made a political ] blunder. 'I The Republican regulars coinpla- * cently claim that the insurgents who \ voted for the Speaker have returned ] to the party fold. Nobody seems en- U tirely happy about thv outcome lOv a en in the senate the regulars arc apprehensive lest the insurgent conflagration may be about to spread to I] that House; the insurgent Senators i are wondering whether they have ] made the most of their opportur.1- J t ies. Speaker Cannon's defiant speech on 1 Saturday night before tho Illinois j Republican Association, in which ho 1 contemptuously denounced Hie in- | 8tirgent m inters >f the Hoa.te who | stood by him In the final l Mt as I "cowardly members of Congress, without tho courage of their convictions" has cut to the quuT. those i men wlio responded with their votes to what they say thej bell- ved to .e limit* .nil" ? .1 1111 iu i ne party ami to the country, and saved him from utter humiliat ion. "If tliis bo the manner of our treatment for saving the Republican party," said one of them Sunday, who refused to allow his name to bo used, "this battle Just ended will I bo followed by another beside which d the lirsl one would be but a skirm- II ish. "I can speak for no one but myself. l>ut if this is to be our recoption, I am done. Wo were not cowards. We, of the insurgents, who cast our votes Saturday against unseating Canson, were the bravest men in that House. It took consumato courage, and it will probably cost 1110 my seat in Congress. But if we tiro to be met with calumny because wo sacrificed ourselves to save the House of Representatives from chaos and disorder and to prevent the ruin of the Republican party, then I 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. KMVOLT AO A INST MATRON. Five Hundred (Bids in State Indus* trial School t'gly. Five hundred girls in the State Industrial School at Dos Moines, Iowa, broke into an open revolt on Thursday afternoon. Furniture was smashed and the girls threatened to demolish the buildings. Miss Hattie Garrison, the matron, telephoned to Governor Carroll for assistance, and quiet was r? stored when eight girls, inmates of the institution, were lockn/1 .... *- A v-u 1111 lor ion days In the Polk county jail after pleading guilty to rioting and destroying State property. Defiant to the last the girls declared that tlrey would rather he Imprisoned in a dirty Jail than to live in the care of Miss Hattio Garrison, superintendent of the reformatory. Governor Carroll ordered an inquiry of the schools management. Hums Three Months. At Hamburg, N. J., a Hre which started three months ago In the 400ton pile of coal in the railroad yards is still burning, although the fuel is nearly exhausted. Contractors who have been awaiting the finish of the blaze before beginning the rebuilding of the plant, which was destroyed when the flro started, hope to starjL work on April 1. 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 Ponrlo Yfr?.ri ~ ... .uvuicai society for dlsBOCtiOll. IALD