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Cannon Re-elected Speaker as Insurgents Win Rule Change
In Washington on March 16 Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois was elected speaker with 204 votes as insurgents defeat the bid to apply Sixty previous rules. Champ Clark and Dalzell clashed over desk access amid a tense extraordinary session to revise tariff rules and set the Senate’s Republican committee under Aldrich.
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