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EIGHTEEENTH YEAR, NO.
53
GUTHRIE, OKLA.,
T H I' R S D A Y,
M ARCH 21
1910
$1.00 PER YEAR.
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Special Session's Result is 127 Bills.—Fifty-nine Days Con-
sumed in Work—Appropriations Total $1,205,621—
Revenues, Fees and Salaries Among Important
Measures,
k USER'S REALM ROOSEVELT MAD!
Berlin Prepares to Herehe ami Kilter
lain Ideal (if Aliu*rli';l.!ls.
During the fifty-nine days of the
special session of the Oklahoma legis-
lature 127 bills were finally passed
and sent to the governor for his ap-
proval. Thirty-four of these were ap-
propriation bills, carrying a total of
$1,205,621.32. A number of resolutions
were also passed.
"•General Hills.
By Hughes and Anthony, creating a
state home for dependent children at
Pryor Creek; by Anthony, requiring
foreign corporations to produce their
records in court on demand.
By Heim, the "White Slave" bill
providing a penalty from two to twen-
ty years for persons engaging in im-
moral traffic.
By Moore-of Johnson, Milsap and
(Glover, an anti-usury bill; by Rogers
making death or life imprisonment
the punishment for first degree rape;
by Karl prohibiting pool halls and
bowling alleys within one mile of a
state educational Institution for boys;
by Taylor, creating the office of in-
spector for the commissioner of chari-
ties and corrections; by Lovelace, in-
creasing the penalty for hog stealing.
By Jabn and Bennett, abolishing the
state rispensary for the sale of intox-
icants for medicinal purposes and re-
taining only an alcohol agency at
Guthrie; by Eggerman and Taylor,
prohibiting the sale of cocaine, mor-
phine, opium, etc., except by a pre-
scription from a physician.
By Stafford, placing the standard of
weights for flor and other mill pro-
ducts; By Goulding, fixing a standard
of weights and measures; by Gould-
ing relative to the transfer of mem-
bers of fratenal associations.
By Casteel, re-enacting the laws re-
lative to the leasing of public lauds.
By Maxey and Casteel, an amend-
ment to the school land sale law; by
Morris, creating a staff of employees
for the school land department.
supreme court room at the lone Hotel
by house committee $32,000 for game
propagation which comes out of the
fees earned by the fish and game de-
partment; by Japp, $735.53 for defi-
ciency in expenses of the Oklahoma
National Guard; by ('ope, $3,000 for
the bar commission, which comes out
of the state bar commission fund; by
durant ; $2,500 for printing session
laws; by Ratcliff and Cayne, $4,433.20 j,
peals in civil cas s; by Burnett, giv-
iing fraternal associations preference
in guardianship proceedings concern-
ling children under their care; by Pas-
,dial, amending jurisdiction of county
j courts.
1 By Snjith providing that the crimin- - , „asmngton. March 19.—More sue-
jal court of appeals shall hand down a month remains before tx-President i einctly than it can be told in any otrei
j decisions in felony cases within six Roosevelt's arrival here, Berlin is al- I way the eonipl te downfall of the Can
months after the appeal is filed. ! ready Roosevelt-mad. The people of noii forces in the house of rept
j Dv Cunningham, jury trials in cases Germany see in Mr. Roosevelt th piv-
ot fact in the supreme court; by Cope, bonification of all the qualities
providing for a vice chief justice of admire most in Americans, and
; the supreme court; by Billips, provid- is no end of the stories you In
ling for summoning jurors by tele- him. The latest tells how h- con
(phone; by Carson, fixing the time for' quered his admirer, the kaiser, in i
I holding terms in the district court.
Local Hills.
. How a Successful Revolution Was Carrier Jhrough in [he
House of Representatives Against Speak", Cannon.
tlves is shown by the various roll-
, calls taken in todays historic struggle.
t!u,y Oratory and strategy' counted for
here little in that tremendous fight. It was
r of [tile brute strength of votes that was of
availing importance. In their chro-
nological order the votes taken re-
sulted as follows:
friendly contest. on Dalzells motion to lay on the
As soon as the emperor learned of]tab!
Tin
By Mitchell. 1 gallzlng the incorpor- Roosevel! -
tion of Cheyenn ; by Davis lagallziug which i-
intended visit to Berlin,
made known in 1908, the
Creek county bonds; by Brownlee of
smperor invited him to be a guest at
tha Senate and Edgington of the rhe ,.oi,al |,a]ace at Potsdam and to
to pay the sheriff of Craig county for ( House, making Geary a county court rece,ve ,( st.vles of honor8 lt
the keep of state convicts; by Durant town in Blame county; by COTe*. ( t t].Bat ,he ex_Presl.
$7,176.33 to reimburse State Game Shattuck, in Ellis county, a court;
Warden for private funds used to town; by Paschal, Gage, in Ellis coun-,
maintain the -l'ish and game depart- ty, a court town; by Simmons relative ja
ments. to building a bridge over the Arkansas,
Revenue and Taxation. Iriver in Tulsa county.by Jacobs, mak>- )
Four measures by Anthony/a rail- ing Muldrow In Sequoyah county, a ' ' m|)ero1 has >tin "
road tax bill, the corporation license court town; by Haynes. disposition of "'[i 1
tax bill, couty excise board and tax the proceeds of a school house site j
levy limitation bill, and the remodeled Broken Arrow; by Boyle, making
gross revenue law; by Wallace, post- cj,ant in Haskell county, a court towq
was
dent of the Cnited States exactly like
1 monarch who was a guest
'in his domain.
Rooseielt rebelled at such an idea,
poning payment of 1909 taxes until by D|xon makillg Weleetka, in Okfus-
Aprll 1, 1910; by Anthony .legalizing kee c(Juntv a court
own; by Hughes
the 1909, and prior tax assessments, nlaklng rhouteau. in Mayes county a strpnuo,lt;
by Smith of Caddo, the two-tax pay-
ment bill; by Strain and Goulding,
providing for correction in assess-
ments and equalization of taxes.
Labor Rills.
court town; by Tucker making Afton
In Ottawa county o curt town; by
Reeves making Clinton in Custer
county a court town; by Huddleston
dividing Pontotoc county into two
By Yeager, requiring state printer county court districts; by Ratliff of
to have been qualified by eight years' Pontoc, adjusting the assessment" of
service as journeyman fcrinter; By Roff township in Pontotoc county;by
Goulding establishing a state free la- Burnett, Reeves and Smith of Custer
bor employment bureau at Enid; by making Custer county a superior
Harrison and Strain, requiring con- court district.
vict made goods to be labeled "con- Resolutions.
vict made"; by Boyle requiring coal j of the numerous resolutions passed
to be weighed before,being loaded on by the legislature, the majority were,
cars or screened; by Taylor, prohibit- memorializing congress on one matter
Ing the transfer of claims for indebt- or anothr, instructing the Oklahoma
• dues outside the state for collection, delegation in Congress as to Oklalio-
a bill intended primarily to protect ma's desires as to questions pending
railroad employees from unjust gar- jn congress.
nlshment of wages; by Graham, regu-j Amopg/the important resolutions are
lating the Issuance of surety bonds the following:
between railroads and their employ- By Graham, Wortmau amj Terrel
Iees- ratifying the prffp&sed income tax
amendment to the constitution of the
United tSates; by Taylor suggesting
the initiation of a "grandfather clause"
j at least receive the public honors
which he is anxious to have placed
on the distinguished American, An
end has been put to this hope, how-
ever, by the recent decisions of the
American which has been
mad1 known to the emperor.
The ex-president has insisted on be-
ing treated as a private citizen of the
United States. Me will not be a re-
cipient of any public honors. He will
not stay at the royal palace, but will
stop at a hotel, and accept the kaiser's
hospitality when he calls upon him at
the royal palace. It will be a case of
William Hohenzollern, the man, en-
trtainlng Theodore Roosevelt, the
man. not the German emperor and the
Sx-president of the United States.
By Keys creating a staff of employ- Klectlou Law*.
By Taylor Initiative and referendum
election law, replacing the bill vetoed
ees for the game warden's depart-
ment; by lledwlne, making available
certain funds to construct the peni- , ,;avvrnnr Haskell- bv Tavlor reso-
tetlary; by Simmons, requiring the'J> Governor Haskell, pj taylor, r«so
oil Inspector to exhibit hi his records j bition, proposing the adoptwn of the
the location of all plugged oil and gas j • grandfather" clause to the state con-
wells ; by Tillotson, providing for the stitution; by Bryan, a general election
payment of the expenses of the oil haw. by Taylor and Haynes, providing
and gas department of the chief mine ^ jor ^jIe e[ection of marshals in incor-
Insp ctor's office.
porated towns; by Taylor and Blllups,
iQUEEN OF THE SUDS IS QUEEN
The Paris Mi-Careme Carnival linier a
Laundry Worker.
Paris, March 10.—Mi-Careme has
passed again. The celebration was
the biggest and gayest Paris has seen
in many years, and the capital almost
succeeded in demonstrating to the
world that it has forgotten the floods
The queen this year was Eiisa C.alliard
a laundry worker.
amendment to th# state constitution: ' The girl who had been chosen first
the hone sresolution which caused thej was taken ill a few flays before the
filing of charges against Governor
Haskell; by Senator Russell, propos-
ing an amendment to the state con-
stitution for an equitable per capita
distribution of the school taxes paid
'Appropriation Bills.
By Redwine, $20,000 for land for the
penitentiary; by Russell, $45,000 for
the Fort Gibson blind school; by Keys
$2S,000 additional lands for the Vinita
insane asylum; by Stewart $4,100 for
office expenses of the game warden;
by Williams of the S nate, $10,000
for the Weatherfor state normal, $10,-
000 for the Durant State Normal, $38,-
•000 for the Claremore preparatory
school; by Williams of the Senate, re-
imbursing Governor Haskell's contin-
gent fund, $5,000 for amounts advanc
ed to deftnd the two-cent rate case;
by Williams of the Senate, $155,000 for
the keep of the state insane at Nor-
man; by Redwine $200,000 to com-
plete the McAlester penitentiary; by
senate committee, $87,372.28 to reim-
burse the funds of the school land de-
partment which were unconstitution-
ally used in paying the expenses of
the department; by Taylor, $39,3^0 for
'repealing the 1909 Taylor election law j by the public service corporations; by
by Wayne, correcting an act of the Cunningham, giving the governbr, at-
1909 legislature and repealing the "pe- I torney general and state treasurer
titious" clause of the primary election authority to settle the claim of the
law; by Cope, relative to challenging state against the defunct Capitol Na-
of voters. itlonal bank at Guthrie; by Blair,
Itonds, Warrants and Fluids. jtransfering $3,000 from th> mainten-
By Bryan and Charles, making the ance to the equipment funds of tjie
attorney general ex-officlo state bond boys' Industrial school between Pauls
commissioner with the duty of pro- Valley a,1 Wynnewood and by Land-
viding the procedure for issuing oi all rum transfering $10,000 from mainten-
bands of a public nature; by Anthony j ance to equipment of the Tahlequah
relative to the investing of sinking normal.
relative to bridge —,
holiday and was forced to abdicate.
This must have been an intense dis-
appointment, for to be queen of Mi-
Careme is much more than a mere
sentimental honor. It Is worth nearly
The apeal of Noris from the speak-
er's ruling, 164 to 181.
On Norris' motion ordering the
previous qu stion on his apeal, 180 to
160. ■*
On the question: "Shall the ruling
of the chair be sustained? 100 to 182.
On ordering the previous question
on th adoption of the Norris substi-
tute, 178 to 159.
To substitute the new Norris reso-
lution for the old, offered Thursday,
192 to 153.
To adopt the Norris resolution. 191
to 155. <■
On Burleson's resolution to declare
the speaker's chair vacant. 155 to 191.
Guerniey Cannon, ex-czar."
Thus might one, with reason, speak
tonight of him who hails from Dan-
ville, 111.
Speaker he Is, 'tis true, but he lost
today the ancient prestige and weapon
of the- office when the allied Riepubll
can-Insurgents and Democrats took
from him not only the chairmanship
of, but even membership, in the all-
powerful committee on rules, the
chief asset in his stock of power.
Amid scenes of wildest disorder, for
the like of which one must go back to
the exciting days just prior to the Civ-
il War—perhaps even those times
might not duplicate it—tfc,e veteran
speaker, almost 74 years old. stood
erect and defiant, his read "bloodied
but unbowed."
At the end when a big Texas Demo
crat accepted the speakers daring
challenge and introduced a resolution
to fling him out of the speakership,
the Republictn regulars and insurg-
ents. rallied with almost unbroken
party front and gave him a vote which
almost offset the "repudiation of Can-
nonism." . < #,J fc I 4
This is what happened:
By a vote of 191 to 155, the Republi-
can insurgents voting solidly with the
Democrats, the House adopted the res-
olution of Senator Norris, Republican
of Nebraska, requiring a reorganiza-
tion of the ruleB committee, Increas-
ing Its membership from fiv * to ten
and declaring the speaker ineligible
to membership thereon.
By the curiously identical vote of
191 to 155—but with decid dly differ-
ent personnel of alignment—the House
.defeated a resolution of Representa-
tive Burleson of T xas declaring the
eunuch
lion
By a
today for t
the ruling
significance
ause it. sh
iVenty-live
'<e a political
nit of me."
the H i oil
he first tit
if Speaker
attaches ti
>ws that in
Republicans
.speakership vacant and ordering an
$1,000 in cold cash to the wearer of immediate election of a successor to
-j funds; by Davis
bonds;
by Ratcliff validating outstanding I
warrants; by Redwine ^aiul Durant,!
the title, if she cares to convert all
the gifts which are presented to her
into money.
A dress costing $200 Is given her by
ona of the leading costumers of Paris,
the president always gives her an ele-
gant bracelet and other individuals
and societies give other articles of
jewelry, all of which become her per-
sonal property.
To receive these gifts, to be guest
of honor at a great banquet in the
Hotel de Viile and to be acclaimed by
by Blair legalizing bond Issues ( HANDLER HOLDS PLACE 0\ THE hundreds of thousands of cheering
BOARD.
| T. A. Chandler, of Vinita, who was
providing lor the issuance of $-.025,- ^iseovered by the senate In executive
000 public building warrants.
I session as a republican member of the
Importance to Cities. | state board of affairs, was re-appoint-
By Smith of Caddo, park commis- ed by Governor Haskell.
siouers in cities under 10,000; by Jon-] Democratic senators J. H. Keys of
es, sale of real estate of colored or Pryor Creek ad E. M. I,andrum of
separate schools; by Stafford, proviu- Tahlequah are understood to have
the Chickasha girls school, by Key3 that commission-governed cities opposed Chandler, and mustered
$10,400 for additional land for the ol ~jnlav jjx the number of the members 1 most of the democratic members
I ting cities of the first class; by Staff- against him. Chandler got 12 votes.
'ord, the state fair grounds bill; by ] all the republicans and five democrats.
Taylor ad Haynes, marshals for in-1 The republican senators sent a wrlt-
corporated tjowns. > I ten endorsement to the governor ask-
( ounty and Schools. j iD& that Chandler be reappointed.
,, ... ,v . _ . .. Governor Haskell's letter of re-ap-
By Smith and Durham, the fee and 1
phan home at Pryor Creek; by sen-
ate committee, $116,426.67 for the ex-
pense of the school land department
until 1911; by Williams of the senate
$50,000 to pay the expenses of the
special session of the legislature; by
Roddie, $63,096 for the Ada rtate nor-
mal; by Williams of the senate, $50,-
OOOto the corporation commission, and
$10,000 to the attorney general to de-
fend the rate cases; by Echols, $2,300
for rent of the state house, etc., by
Williams of the senate, $2 635 for the
salary of inspector in the commission-
er of charities and corrections office;
by Allen and Turner, $100,000 for the
deaf school at Sulphur; by Cordell
and Japp, $6,393.77 for the Snake In-
dian war deficiency; by 8orrelU, res-
olution, $230 for the members of the
state mining board; by Jones $3S 138
for expenses of the special session of
which $13,138.86 was left over from
the 1909 legislature; by Jones $7,904
for expenses of the special session of
which $904.50 was left over by the
1909 legislature; by Durant, $1,140.60
to p#y the salaries of extra district
Judges; bj C-ilmer, Mate.', Casteel and
/.lien $L'0,(t'0 for the Ariuore Con-
federate I'cine; by Wl'.i.cn of Greer,
$35,000 fur the Granite reformatory;
salary hill; by Soldani, amendment to
the drainage law;" by Wynn, amending
the school district law; by Davis, re-
lative to issuance of bridge bonds; by
Ratliff and Moore of Johnson, provid-
ing for the purchase of Indian build-
ing for county court houses; by Japp,
transference of pupils from one school
of the board of education; by Thomas
providing a plan whereby cities may
protect their water supplies, though
outside the city limits; by Echols, val-
idating various city elections; by Yea-
ger, providing for joint bridges abut-
ing another district.
By Lovelace, amending the road
laws; by Jones, sale of real estate be-
longing to counties by Ir^on time for
holding school district meetings.
The Court.
By Cordell! amending the probate
court laws; by Franklin, transfer of
probate matters; by Stafford, provid-
ing stenographers for the supreme
court; by Strain and Wortman, tem
"subjects" one day must make the task
of bending over a washtub the next
a bit irksome Some queens whom
Paris has honored in the past have
been unfitted for futur.e work'by one
day's wearing of the royal' purple.
MABRAT GANG FOUND GUILTY
The
ty M T'non $238,40 for rent of the porary county judges; by Clark,.ap-
pointment Is as follows:
"Dears Sirs:—The act of the last
legislature creating the state board of
public affairs contemplated that one
of its members should be a republi-
can. and at that time every republi-
can member of the state senate rec-
ommended your appointment, where-
upon I appoint you upon that board.
You have served nearly one year to
the credit to yourself and the party
and in such a way as to entitle you to
the thanks of the people of this state,
to continue as a member of that board
It is my policy that wh n the law pro-
vides for republican represenatatlon
upon asy state board to permit the re-
publican members of th senate to se-
lect their man. They have selected
you and I heartily approve of their
selection, and, therefore, I am today
re-appointing you, and trust that you
will continue to serve on that board
believing that you will serve the peo-
ple in the future to their entire satis-
faction as you certainly have in the
past."
Millionaires' Club" Swindlers to
Be Sentenced Today.
Council Bluffs, la, March 20.— John
C. Mabray and thirteen of his associa-
tes who for ten days have been on
trial in the United States District
Court, charged with illegal use of the
mails in connection with an extensive
swindle, were found guilty by the jury
which returned a verdict at 11 o'clock
today. Rob rt E. I,. Gcddard of San
Antonio, the fifteenth defendant, ob-
tained a disagreement.
Those found guilty are John C. Ma-
bray, Leon Loser, Tom S, Robinson,
Willard Powell, Clarence Class, Ed-
ward Leach, Edward K. Morris, a ne-
gro; Clarence Forbes, Harry Forbes,
Frank Scoff, Edward McCoy, Wlnford
S. Harris, Bert R. Shores and William
Marsh. Judge McPherson announced
that the prisoners would be sentenced
Monday morning at 10 o'clock. The de-
fendants accepted the verdict g' neral-
ly without showing signs of feeling
and Mabray shook hands with several
of the Jurors after they were discharg-
ed.
Mrs. Mabray broke down when the
verdict was read and her husband at-
tempted to console her. She soon left
the room, however, still weeping. Two
years' imprisonment and a fine of $10,-
000 is tho maximum penalty that may
be imposed by ths court.
Mr. Cannon.
Here Is the Norris resolution which
was adopted:
There shall be a committee oil hules,
elected by the House (hitherto the
committee of five like all other House
comittees, has been appointed by the
speaker), consisting of ten members,
six of whom shal be members of the
majority party. The speaker shall not
be a member of the comittee, and the
committee shall elect its own chair-
man from its own members.
Resolved, further, that within ten
days after the adoption of this reso-
lution, there shall tie an election of
this comittee, and immediately upon
its election the present committee on
rules shall bo dissolved.
Her 1b the resolution of Represen-
tative Burleson, which was defeated:
Resolved. That the office of speaker
of the House of Repres ntatives ie
hereby declarenl to be vacant, and the
House of Representatives shall at
once proe ed to the election of a
speaker.
< The oldest man ill Congress makes
no pretense of remembering any
parallel from the senatorial scuep
which have characterized the last few
day in the Hose. When this day't
developments reached a crisis about
5 o'clock this afternoon he would have
1 n a rash prophet who attempted to
forecast tho outcome.
There were moments when it ap-
peared as though the pr ponderantlv
Republican House might even cap the
climax by electing Champ Clark
speaker. In fact, not only was thif
proposed in a motion by Mr. Clark ol
Florida, but speaker Cannon himself
In his "defl," to th° House, declared
that his enemies should be consistent
and proceed to the election of a Demo
cratic speaker.
Indeed, it was this challenge to the
House, daring as it was, whiclt, pro-
voking the Burleson resolution for hit
dethronment, turned the tide again ir
his favor and rallied the Republicans
regulars and insurgents together, with
few exceptions, to the point of what
may well be termed a vote of confi
dence.
Thj'ough it all the aged speaker, In-
varialy calm, stoical, consistent tc
the end, stood in his place, Ills gavel
with steady thumps upon his desk
punctuating the rlotious confusion
Upon the conclusion of the vote
which cast him out of bis place of
power at the head of the rules com-
mittee, he asked "the indulgence ot
the House for three minutes."
Many Republicans recalled the
speaker's retort when they proposed
to nominate him on the Roosevelt pick-
et for the vice-presidency.
Planned.
11 the House-
reversed tho
s ntion. Dee(>
j le vote, be-
adition to th
who are rated'
straight-out progress!seven-
teen, so-called regular Republicans
out of wholesome respect tor an,
aroused public, voted with the pro-
gressives and Democrats to overturn
Speaker Canon's ruling, which, in ef-
fect, would have gone far toward de-
stroying the usefulness of calendar
Wednesday.
The affair was a carefully planned'
effort to rob the Democrats and pro-
gressives of the single valuable con-
cession that they got out of a changa
of the rules one year ago yesterday.
Mr. t rumpacker of Indiana, had moved
that the House take up a joint resolu-
tion by Sabath of Illinois, providing
for a seperate classification of the*
Slavs In the coming census, claiming
it is a privileged resolution, inas-
much as it represents a Constitutional
question, the census being required by
the Constitution. It was arranged1
that Mann of Illinois should object to
thus setting aside calendar Wednes-
day. which Mann promptly did. This
was for the purpose of enabling
speaker Cannon to rule on the point.
Speaker Cannon held that the taking
of a census being directed by the Con-
stitution, it was a privileged matter
in the way In which even calendar
•Wednesday could not be permitted to
stand. He ruling took the character
ot a stump sqeech, In the course of
which he made a covert reply to his
critics. • Representative Dies of Tex-
as, had in a recent speech character-
ized Cannon as a Colosus sitting as-
tride the neck of the House and in
giving the House his ruling today
Cannon said he would give the Housa
now a chanci "to say whether tha
Speaker Is a Colosus sitting astride
the neck of the House."
The whole thing showed that the
( annon machine had miscalculated
woefully, in that they had not expect-
ed that any regulars would vote to
overturn the Speaker, and in fact had
not expected to see the progressives
vote their full strength. When tha
matter came tip the progressives and
Democrats raised the cry of keepin«
calendar Wednesday Inviolate with
such effectiveness .that the machine
became panic-stricken and Mr rrum-
pueker hastily moved for a postpone-
ment of the apeal from the ruling of
the chair This motion, on roll-call.
>vas defeated by a vote or 153 to 121.
Then came the vote on the appeal from
Cannon's decision. On this question
121 Democrats. 25 progressives and 17
regulars voted against the Speaker.
Eleven of Cannon's colleagues from
Illinois railed to vote, and one of them,
Mr. Wilson, voted against, him. Six
Ohio Reoubllcans fled and failed to
vote, while Messrs. Howland. Johnson
are! Hollingsworth, three Ohio Repub-
licans voted airainst the Speaker It
was an astonishing demonstration of
the efficacy of an aroused public senti-
t.i-'nt.
Speaker Cannon took the stinging
rebuke ill-naturedly. He called aside
number of regular Republicans who
had voted against him and proceeded
to read them a lecture. Of one of this
number, he asked sarcastically,
What the hell are you, anyhow, a
Democrat, an insurgent or a Republi-
■an?"
The defeat was all the more crush-
ing because the machine had decided
inflict upon the insurgents and
Democrats a 'Irastic punishment in the
way of diminishing the effectiveness
f their calendar Wednesday. So
when the House met this morning, Mr.
Dwight. the Republican whip an-
nounced at onee that the organization
was going to "trim the Insurgents,"
and the first move was Mr. Dwight's
request for a call of the House. The
doors were closed, when Mr. Dwight
made the point of no quorum, and it
was given out that the old rule of
locking absentees would hereafter be
nforeed. The proceeding had the ef-
fect of bringing almost a full attend-
ance. and shortly thereafter Mr. Crum-
ii'.cker started the ball rolling with
'he aforest'd disastrous resultc to the
Speaker and his following.
Norris Explains.
Washington, March 21.—"feoeaker
annon's speech before tho Illinois
Republican Association Saturday
light when he called th insurgents
vho voted against the Burleson resolu-
tion a lot of cowardlv memhers was
the vanorlnes of an old man's
mind," emphatically declared Repre-
sentative Norris of Nebraska in the
lobby of the the House today.
"It represented," he said, "the state-
ments of a senile old man who was
Hied with venom and vengenc? be-
cause of a crushing defeat which be
had suffered as a result of his tyran-
ny."
"I voted against the Burleson reso-
lution to declare the Speaker's chair
vacant," said Mr. Norris, "because it
was a fight for principle and not one
of personalities I did not wish to see
•h- Houre precipitated into a situation
of choas and disorder from which it
orobably would not emerge for weeks
•o the dethrlment of Important pending
i legislation.
"Our victory had already been won
when we deprived the speaker of his
Tiost powerful weapon—the appoint-
ment of the Rules Committee I had
only a moment to think it over and I
decided lt was better to place party
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1910, newspaper, March 24, 1910; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112694/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.