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...Reed Rules" drawn up in 1890 by Speaker Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed, Representatives William McKinley and Joseph Cannon. * Founded by Joseph Cannon and his brother half a century ago, it made them worth more than a million dollars...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon...
...epigrams were impotent without the rules; so Democrats and insurgent Republicans, led by Representative (now Senator) George W. Norris of Nebraska, made an assault upon the rules. They voted to have the House choose the members of the Committee on Rules and ousted the Speaker from it. "Tsar" Cannon objected, was overruled. The House was in a turmoil; hostile Congressmen rushed at the Speaker's rostrum as if to tear him bodily from his throne. His gavel smote his desk; he said that his seat could better be declared vacant by a majority vote. A vote was taken...
With such a background young Cannon went to law school in Cincinnati and thence to Danville, Ill., a land of Lincoln legends, destined in another half century to grow big with Cannon legends. There he embraced Republicanism and carried it through 46 years' service in the House. His diversion, he said, was: "Raising the tariff in the daytime and raising the ante at night...
...winnings: Eclipse wins. John Randolph and the South are gallantly chagrined. Lafayette, with his Revolution limp, visits Boston and Bunker Hill, erect and vigorous at 70, with a most serviceable brown wig. As Governor Lincoln's aide, young Quincy rides beside the hero through an ovation "by bells, cannon and human lungs" from a transported citizenry which "was then homogeneous and American." In 20 tents on Boston Common, 1,200 persons dine together "like one family...