The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 24, 1910, Image 5
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.
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