"INSURGENTS."
UNITED STATES POLITICS. SPEAKER CANNON. QUESTION OF CURTAILING HIS POWER. Received March 21, 9 a.m. NEW YORK, March 20. Thirty-five "insurgent" Republicans will combine with the Democrats to curtail the powers of the Speakership. They allege that Mr Joseph Cannon, the used his power to nominate committeemen in an arbitrary fashion in the interests oi the Republican party. A new rule was recently Dassied providing that ssx Republicans and four Democrats should form a Rules Committee, which deals with precedence v in regard to private members' Bills. * A rowdy debate ended in the House of Representatives refusing a Democratic demand to depose Mr Cannon, the "insurgent" Republicans being satisfied with curtailing Mr Cannon's power.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10000, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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115"INSURGENTS." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10000, 22 March 1910, Page 5
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