Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — HARMONY SITUATION BECOMING LUDICROUS [ARTICLE]

HARMONY SITUATION BECOMING LUDICROUS

Object to James and Rainey as Minority Committee Members. Washington. Jan. 18. —The insurgent situation in the house of representatives is all tangled up. Mr. Hayes has been Insurging it violently for some time. He was the spokesman during the recent harmony conferences at the White House of those members who had jumped the reservation and allied themselves with the Democrats in a successful attempt to take from Speaker Cannon the power to name the six house members of the BalllngerPlnchot investigation committee. Ko two democrats more thoroughly objectionable to the Republican organization of the house could have been selected than Messers. James and Rainey. Mr. Rainey is the genial Illinois Democrat who accused President Taft and his brother, Charles P., of all kinds of high crimes and misdemeanors in connection with the purchase of the Panama canal strip, and Mr. James, physically the largest man in the house, is a noted partisan.