Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 182, Hammond, Lake County, 21 January 1910 — Page 10

First Authoritative Statement as to eIimsOTgmt'' Aims la Goagress

THESE ARE THE THI

INSURGENTS. William J. Cary. WisconsinHenry A. Cooper, Wisconsin. Charles R. Davis. Minnesota. " John J. Esch, WisconsinCharles N. Fowler, New Jersey.

Augustus P. Gardner, Massachu

setts. James W. Good, Iowa. Asle J. Gronna, North Dakota. Gilbert N. Haugen; Iowa. Kverls A. Hayes. California. ... Edmund H. Hlnshaw, NebraskaDavid A. Holllngsworth, Ohio. Elbert H. Hubbard. Iowa.

i Adna R. Johnson, Ohio. 3f N. E. Kendall. Iowa. f Moses P. Kinkaid, Nebraska. i Arthur W. Kopp, Wisconsin. Irvine L. Lenroot, Wisconsin. Charles A. Lindbergh. Minnesota. J William C. Loverlng. Massachusetts. J E. H. Madison. Kansas. J E. A. Morse. Wisconsin. 3- Victor Murdock. Kansas. j John M. Nelson, Wisconsin. . George W. Norris. Nebraska. Charles E. Pickett. Iowa. J Miles Piindexter. Washington. J Halvor Steenerson. Minnesota. 4- Andrew J. Volstead. Minnesota, t Prank P. Woods. iDwa.

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parliamentary, liamentary.

This one Is purely par-

By ROBERTUS LOVE. WHY do the heathen rage? Why do the insurgents Insurge? And - do the people imagine a vain thing? Whether the people imagine a vain thing with regard to Speaker JoDh G. Cannon's contrnl nf ioo-!io

f c. In congress may be a matter of j

aTessed women m this country 'have

personal opinion, but here for the first time we have from Congressman Victor Murdock of Kansas, the acknowledged leader of the so called insurgents In the house, an authoritative, succinct, signed statement, prepared In response to a special request from the present writer, as to Just why the insurgents Insurge. The people of the United States at large are deeply interested in this insurgent movement, whether they believe In It or not. The interest is increasing, for the Insurgent struggle is becoming more vlmfully virile as con-

Insurgents Not Dangerous. For the benefit of ladies who live in single suffrage states It may be pointed out that the Insurgent in congress is not a Central American Insurrecto with a corn knife and a cartridge belt, but an

American citizen whom the voters" of

nis district prize so highly that they have sent him to Washington to represent them In the making of national laws. The insurgent contends that he is sent there to represent, and the reader will find by perusing Mr. (Murdochs statement that the thirty Republican congressmen who make up the little brigade of opponents to the speaker's rule, from the majority side of the house, are conducting this campaign because they feel that they are not permitted to represent. "As representatives we demand that we have a chance to represent." say the Insur-

conferred upon, the speaker by the

house rules and other conditions a member has little or no voice in legislation." Edmund Burke said there were four estates in parliament, the fourth being represented in tho press gallery. The insurgent Republicans In congress may be called the fifth estate. According to their contention, they represent the determination to represent their constituents, and that is why for several years they have been resisting the rule of the speaker. It is not a personal

fight against Joseph G. Cannon, but an

press gets down to work after the holi- : Impersonal one against the preroga

aay vacation. Many persons love a j tivea of his office. A speaker by any "scrap," whether it be pugilistic or other name would smell as odoriferous

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THE PURPOSE OF THE INSURGENTS.

QHOSE w.io are insurgent against the house rules are striving to restore popular representation in congress. Today there are 391 members in the house. Only one of them, the speaker, actually exercises the functions of representation. All power in the house has been shifted from the membership to the speaker. There is but one way to give representation back to the house and that is by taking the power which has been concentrated in the speaker away from him. , At present the speaker, Joseph G. Cannon, exercises, first, control over business; second, control over recognition, and third, control over the votes of the membership. His control over business of major importance is exercised through his membership on the committee on rules, the committee which forces measures through the house under cloture that is, without the right of amendment or debate. It is proposed, therefore, first, to put the speaker off that committee. The speaker's control through recognition comes under the right of the speaker to inquire into the purpose of a motion made by a member and, if the motion be obnoxious to the speaker, the right to refuse the member recognition to make his motion. It is proposed, therefore, second, to take that tyrannical right away from the speaker.

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chairmen who will be loyal to him and makes members of committees ;

men who will be loyal to his lieutenant chairmen. This is his machine. The speaker's caprice controls. His whim rules. If the speaker desire a measure reported out of committee for action he has but to say the word. If he desire a measure to remain in a pigeonhole he has merely so to indicate. It is proposed, therefore, third, to let the house appoint its own committees. Popular representation has been perverted and defeated by a concentration of power in the speaker. The purpose is to correct and restore representation bv taking power away from the speaker and putting it back in the membership. It can be done by changing the system first, by excluding the speaker from the' committee on rules; second, by changing the rule of recognition; third, by permitting the house to name

its own committees.

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to these Insurgents If he exercised the samo prerogatives, which are denounced by the thundering thirty as a species of czaristlc absolutism unintentially engrafted upon our body politic. Cannon's Crown of Thorns. These Insurgent members are thirty thorns in the flesh of the speaker. This Is the number of them as alreadv reflected in votes, but Victor Murdock tells me that there will be more at the very first opportunity to express tnsurgency sentiments on the roll call. Should any curious person. Just as an exercise In simple arithmetic, desire to understand why Speaker Cannon smokes his cigars at an extra uptilted angle fust now let him Co a little figuring. There are 391 members In the house. The Republicans number 219, the Democrats 172. From the

republicans subtract 30 Insurgents; r-r 1 1 - loft T 1 i - . .

icans lert. to the

4 1 -v.uuuvnua o u U J result. 189 Republi

suit. 202 Democrats. Anyhow, they win

vote mat way on any proposition to press the thorn crown more tightly about the troubled brow of Un le Joe, Did you hear anything irop?

There you have a fatal thirteen ma- two

in Uncle Joe as ah angel with wings or denounce him as a devil witlf whiskers, whether you honor the insurgents as possible saviors of their country's liberties or anathematize them as traitors to their party, that thirteen majority against the speaker on roll call is a stupendous political fact that stares you in the face. And suppose the division should fall upon a Friday! New Jersey to California. By reference to the list of the thirty thunderers printed herewith you will observe that the insurgent movement Is not merely a Kansas cyclone, though the "head and front o the offending" hails from Wichita and another member from the Sunflowe. State, Edmond H. Madison of Dodge Citv, Is In line. The insurgent representatives hall from twelve of the Republican states. New Jersey has Its Fowler, who not long ago engaged in an open letter contest with the speaker which spluttered red fire. California 1 on the list. Massachusetts has two Insur-

fr:ents. Wisconsin has six more than hajjilf of its members. Minnesota has

nothing local about tho Insurgent movement The protest against the speaker's prerogatives Is voiced in th house of representatives from coast to coast. New England pairs with Kansas two pairs. And these days there is usually a full house In the speaker's hand, because every member Is expecting something to break loose in the Insurgent campaign and wants to be In at the killing. The 189 Republicanscounting out the thirty want to be there to keep the 172 Democrat from coalescing with the Insurgents. The Democrats want to be there to coiJesce at the first blush of opportunity. That Is one of the things lhat make this session of the Sixty-first congress more than usually interesting from the visitors' galleries. Upheld by Constituents. All the Insurgents declare that their people are standing by them. When Murdock got home from the extra tariff session .last summer the populace of Wichita met him at the depot and paraded him around town with a brass band in front and the Insurgent in the leading carriage. Main street and Dousrlas avenue lelng crammed to the curbs" with vociferous acclalmrs. Several other insursrents had similar receptions, though It is probable that Murdock's was the most enthusiastic. J. C. Welliver. a Washington news

paper man. proposes In a current man

azine article to elect an Insure

speaker. "There are plenty of

men among them with whom no mistake could be made." he says. "Mur

dock of Kansas, Hubbard of Iowa, Nor-

Jority against the speaker already In Washington has anowhr. sight. No matter whether you believe ' It appears, in fine, ult4

fo?Iowa has six. Nebraska has ris of Nebraska, Conner of Wisconsin, three. Ohioevhome of the president, has are tried veterans of this warfare: anv

th Dairt;o.ta has one, and faroff one of them would make an able, fair

and absolutely true speaker."

here Is, Well, what do you think about it?

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Will Attempt Mount McKintW Ii Apri'

New Stale of Siskiyou May Be Created Top of California and Bottom of Oregon Would MaLke 'A. Commonwealth of Superlative Scenic Grandeur

IF the proposed new state of Siskiyou be added to the Union by the elopement and marriage of the northern part of California and the southern part of Oregon, the new commonwealth promises to become known as the most picturesquely beautiful In general topography of all the sovereign sisterhood. This Is the prophesy of one who has visited all the "scenic states" and has been more deeply impressed and enthralled by the

scenery In the regions comprising the ; proposed new commonwealth than by j any of the other great natural wonders 1 of America. Siskiyou if Siskiyou occurs will be- j come an Irresistible magnet ' for the tourist, the artist, the poet and the ; practical person who pioneers for commerce. Of course the region will be' no more wonderful than it is at present, but the formation' of a new state will serve to attract wider attention to it.

Whilo the movement has not taken definite shape, the proposition has been discussed with serious intentions for some time and just now is interesting the residents of the region. If ym will look at the map you will find that near Carson City, famed in prizefight annals as the place where Jim Corbett surrendered to Bob Fitzsimmons, the border line between Nevada and California has an obtuse angle. Geographically this angle is indicated as the

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LOGGING IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.

southeast corner of Siskiyou. On the coast of Oregon you will discover Coos bay. Here or possibly somewhat up coast may begin the north line of Siskiyou. The territory indicated will Include two harbors. Coos bay and Humboldt bay, both of which may be developed into ports of commercial importance. It will include, what is more interesting, Crater lake and Mount Shasta and probably also Lake Tahoe. in the extreme southeastern corner, that wonderful body of water lying far up in a mountain altitude. Mount Shasta is a volcano, rumbling, grumbling and shuddering from time to time, but scientists say it has not erupted for 800 years. That it formerly suffered terrible eruptions Is shown by the immense masses of lava that have poured down its sides and out beyond its base. Crater lake was created by the violent explosion of Mount Mazama, which blew its own head off ages ago when it was higher than Shasta, according to savants. This conclusion as to Mazama's original altitude was reached by a process of comparative anatomy, so to speak. The surface of the lake is 6,223 feet above the sea. Around the lake, which is six by five miles and of elliptical contour, rise3 a rim of stone, the broken mountain's ex

terior, from 1,000 to 2.000 feet above the water. The walls are almost perpendicular. The lake is 2,000 feet deep. Crater lake and its environs, including 295 square miles, have been a national park by act of congress since 1902. Recently railroad connection has been established, so that this marvelous phenomenon Is easily accessible to the tourist. Mount Shasta is In Siskiyou county, Cal., the county whose name it Is proposed to bestow upon the new state. This mountain, 14,442 feet high, - possesses features of interest that belong to no other big wart on the earth's face. Shasta is not properly a peak. It belongs in the Sierra range. Sierra means saw toothed. That'' describes Shasta,

The mountain Is long and has several depressions like the space between gigantic saw teeth, or one might say that it has humps like a monster camel's back. The top and sides arc-clad in perpetual snow. Around the base of Shasta and far up its craggry slopes Indians and white men have grappled in death struggles year after year. Later the gold seeker came and pitched his tent along the slopes or in the outlying forests. Then came the lumberman's ax, and one of the large industries of the region today Is that of cutting and floating logs. ROBERT DONKELL. r

HE ascent of Mount McICInley, ' in Alaska, the highest peak in North America, yet unsealed according to the findings ot

the Explorers club, is to be attempted in April by Professor Herschel C. Parker of Columbia university and Belmore H. Browne of Seattle, artist and mountain climber. Professor Parker has just declared to me his intention to try to reach the summit of the premier peak. He will seek neither to uphold nor to discredit Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who was expelled from the Explorers' club on the finding that his claim to having climbed Mount McKinley in 1906 was false. Professor Parker never did place the slightest credence in Cook's claim, he openly discredited It at the time it was made, and he simply purposes to make the attempt "on his own hook." utterly and scornfully ignoring all that has been said by and about his brother Brooklynite as to the alleged achievement. Professor Parker was a partner with Dr. Cook in the 1906 attempt. He helped to finance the expedition. Mr.

Browne also went along, but both he and the Columbia professor were sent on wild goose chases while Cook and his guide, Edward N. Barrill. who since

has discredited him, were supposed to

have achieved the ascent.

Professor Parker is modest as to his statements regarding his forthcoming

effort. He believes there is a chance

for him and Mr. Browne to reach the summit, but he evinces no disposition

to trumpet his Intention to the four winds. He will head a modest expedi

tion as to equipment. "In my opinion." said Professor Par

ker to the writer, "the Duke of the

Abruzzi could climb Mount McKinley

beyond reasonable doubt of failure, for he would go up there with an expedition financed at something like $50,000.

Americans of ordinary means cannot hope to compete with such an explorer, but we do hope that by selecting cur outfit and instruments with good com

mon sense and scientific acumen we may be able to climb 'to the top of the continent. " The latter phrase, by the way. Is the title of the book published by Dr. Cook, in which he claimed that he had climbed the peak. Cook's effort was made from the southern or southeastern side. Professor Parker proposes to attempt the peak from the northern angle. He holds the theory that there Is better promise of success from that approach than from any other. Another interesting theory entertained by the Columbia professor of physics Is that he will find the temperature at the summit of McKinley practi-

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cally the same as that at the top of peaks of corresponding height in equatorial regions, though the Alaskan emperor of mountains holds sway in the far north, only 280 miles from the arctic circle. It is by far the highest peak in the world in such a northern latitude. Notwithstanding its frozen head, there is a tradition among the natives of the Aleutian islands in that general neighborhood that centuries ago tho mountain was a volcano, belching smoke and flame. Those Indians called the mountain Tralelka. The present name. In honor of the late President

McKinley, was bestowed by an intrepid American prospector, W. A. Dickey, who went Into Alaska on the gold rust) of 1S9S and was the first white man to see the mountain, which was known to the whites by the name of Bolshoy. except at a distance of about 200 miles. Dickey floated past the foot of the Alaskan range in a frail craft on the Sushitna river and beheld the magnificent mountain at a close view. Both Parker and Browne are mountain climbers of widely recognized ability and reliability. They are known as painstaking students of mountaineering. ROBINSON BELKNAP.-