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(AN , ford, I | | Turner, ¥ that ’ THE OMAH MAHA will be cailed upon to es ain one of the largest gath- s of the y this summer the Northwestern Saeng bund meets here July M to 2 annual Ssengerfest At rman singing societies from a thw a e be given at the is expected 1500 The opening o 2 will be called the reception will be given emtirely by The members of the r and 3 volces w whieh will sbow take part sicians. £ talen Nebraska ng ente The so ainment wi wsts at be Fred Johnson, temor Mra L. Jansen George ind tha that for & they w there is symphor Reese 10 hate orchestra. Ab be added fr Albin Huster and w tiee oot master violin solo the s0lo cornetist of many friends 'a Trans-Mississippi ex- e of the special attrac- ngerfest. Miss Mary f Omaha, wiil come de w0 where she hes been er beauliful soprano e Moses of Ne ring the tions celebra- Pau bilint e well-kn n Har Opera compan the wn St sen eading nd Marcus Metropolitan Opers gert will be under the di- who will also sct g the other conexets, w ss male chorus of which w lead by Prof. Theodore Kelbe of Milwaukee. The vari- eties in the Northwest Saenbergund delegations to Omaha are jedertafel, Harugari Sanger- Ricgard Wagner Manner- chor, Great Park Liederkranz, West Side Liederkranz, Concordia Licdertafel Lake View Mannerchor, Central Park Manner- chor, Chicago; Harlam Mannerchor, For- est Park, 1ll.; Harmony, Maywood and Melrose, lilinols; Harmony, Forest Park m Evergreen Siiging soclety Barton wille, Walhalla, Elgin, 1 Sanger bund, Freeport, I Moline Turnverein Moline, 1 Liederk. z, Concord! Peo- ria, 11l.; Mennerchor, Peki L. Manner- chor, Rock Island, 1l Germania, Rock- Mennerchor and Orpheus, Omah: Germania, Stanton, Neb.; Arion Denver; Turnverein Frischauf, Aurora, 1l; Liederkranz, Manning, Ia; Sanger- bund, Cedar Rapids, Ia: Liedertafel and Burlington, Ia.; Germania Manner- Des Moines, Ia.; Mannerchor, Nor Liedertafel. Germania, Turner, Reese. ehor, west Omaha PI Davenport. 1 Bangerbund. Dub Muscatine, Ia erchor que, Ia Postville, Ia Mannercaor. Harmony, East Manner- Liederkranz, Minneapolis; Concor Arion, Liedertafel, St. Pau North 8. Paul: Mannerchor. Minn; Man Eintraeht, Wis.; Germania, Eau Claire, W sinn. Liederkranz, Lacrosse Mannerchor. Madison, Wis.: Munroe, Wis: Concordia. Wis.: Germania, Waukesha, Wis; Lied graund, Barden Mannerchor, Alemannia, Germania, Eichenkranz, Columbia, Manner- chor Hermannsohra, Fidelis, Liedertafel, ederkranz, New Ulm erchor Ableman Froh Wis Harmony Sheboygan faennerchor members. the present and grew so of the time there Hese dening. The Saen ‘er{el( board, w was . ractor and German was born He came to udied has & deep He America of arrangements for angements & & for tt fects 4 that o biggest 5" Gre Mgk Galing. & a Maennerc accommodations Peter Laux > & e Stie of thetr abter thel o fra e calebr abor Maer ever tion been putting kerfest ding wherever ging £ their mitiees arge otr ances on ®e- reach representatts 4 sleeping week repre- Personality of the Ten Men Who Make Up the New Rules Committe ASHINGTON, April 28—It was not Thomas B. Reed of Maine or Charles F. Crisp of Georgia or Joseph G. Cannon of Iilinois who devised the “gag rule” by which legislation was expedited use of representatives for many Henry Clay of Kentucky wa who pointed the way by commitiee on rules could agency for putting a tim and making the major dominant part ganizat new house committ elected by the house pointed by the speake not held a single sessio made in and to be publicans that house. rules committee dominated the Regulars re » this the committce acted compliance with wishes of ity and was help- uniess Jority Up o insurgent mittee of rules the successful €om- session the new majority to devise committee of in the house i this time and disposition 1o commitiee will bouse iself mittee merely session & conduct of It Was first used as ar in 1846, when the Whigs the house At that time, th mmendation made by Heor e was ted by the tec designed 1o lmit de measure In w ested. After i amicee became moribund L was galvanized into the whee of ihe house ted as the ¥ In contre The speaker was made chairmasn mittes on jes In 1558 insurgent Norris of Ne- bruska & few weeks ago led his followers in an assault upon the organization. Speakers have come and gone but John aizell of Pennsylvania appears to be per- ennial He has been the dominant spirit n the house committee on rules since the Rood regime. It was his duty to report special rules to the house and jam them hrough over the protests of democrats and s ng republicans tue se for the se expediting agency were in control ate and pre Important has mmittee mach steering © and ce unti LI Power of the Committes. The insurgents contended that so power- ful was the committee on rules, through ability to punish members by defeating Jegisiation in which they were interested majority were really helpiess in nds of the rules committee. Mr Dgizell has answered this criticism repeat- el with the assertion that before acting the committee o invariably sscer- tained the sentiment of the majority of the members and acted in accordance with "t While the the the b rules surgents were successful in overriding the organization and taking from the speaker the power (o name the commitiee on ruies and his place at the head of it, they did not get & single oue of thelr number on the new organiza- tion. The nominations were made in & party caucus, with the result that the re- publican members elected to it are all reg- siars. They are Joha Dalzell of Pennsyl- venia, chal : Walter 1. Smith of Jowa, tenry Sher Boutell of Iiinois, George P. Lawrence of Massachusetts, J. Sioas use Fassett of w York and Syl vester C. Smith of California. JThe democratic members of the committee are Champ Clark of Missouri, minority lesder; Oscas W. Underwood of Alsbama, Lincoln Dixon of Indiana, and John J. Fitzgerald of New York, Daizel] and Fitzgerald are the recognized rules experts of the bouse. Fitzgerald particularly is an adept at parliamentary pro< cedure Although he has made a long of the rules fitzgerald, by ready consent, is more ready in his interpreta- tion of them. No democrat in many years has been so equipped to trip up the speaker on close rulings and confound the republican situation as the young Irishman from Brooklyn He has given close attention to his congress duties in the eleven years that he has served in the house, and he has also preserving in his udy of the rul The has been that made himseif 1 uable t There have Fitzgerald n the whe en very resuit he has been heiped rules fight times, notably when Uncle Joe Cannon more than a year ug the democrats were disposed to freeze him out of the party orgamisation, but they have feared to antagonize & man so well informed in matters of parliamentary aw and rules of the house as the repre sentative from Brooklyn. It was the belp that Fitzgerald gave in the former rules fight that landed him on the oid rules com- mittee Dalzeil has been a member of the house twenty-three years. For most of that tithe he has served on the rules com- mittee and on the committee on ways and means, taking part as & member of the latter committee in the framung of the Dingley and Payne tariff laws Dalzell is smail physically, but chock full of energy and can make a more effec tive partisan speech than any of his breth Ten on the republican side. He s tho- roughly disitked by the democrats and bas few warm friends among the republi- cans. His place in the house has been won by ability and not by a pleasing person ality. He was re-elected to the new rules commitiee as 3 reward for his unswer support of Speaker Cannon Walter 1. & Chance. Taking it for granted that Joseph G Cannon a1li Dot be in the running for the the next sesion, Wailter 8 tralning himeslf tor Although his state and dis- trict are strongly insurgent Smith prides himeelf on his regularity. On this lssue he i making & fight for his political lite at this Ume te who has raised the ery Pposing him for the x wins & i the house is re- eading can- house. He omm: was a m ttee gna an 187 and elve years taining the an lowa gress in tumble He 1o largest as been n man congress a by Speaker Henry € mitee on is proud o rules commit als man an t. His electn sougic tee was regardsd as a distinct e speaker. Bouied swands for d all that the word is sup- the old e made He believes that les were as good as the he will fight PRk McBride take the sturmp - the coming member terested in the ted States and Cansda eustuction of warships on tb and with that in view now to f the F Speaker Cannc ast-Bag el " ke had siderabie sum The Eastern Men § George Pelton Lawrence of Massachusetts is & New England regular, a favorite of the speaker, by whom he bas frequently chosen speaker pro tem. or chairm t the committes of the whole. He was prest dent of the Massacusetis assembly in L6 been L v pocket mentioned th aved in t rity is his e woo reed but wk he orga k bout the rules very occasion. As Cannon- the standard works ism spells organiz i k admits this Reg- members of leader e will of candidate for gover York state against me with Mack Cautious Judse Archbishop \ersus Suppose . pope and the devil were 1 Attorney Homan Comtrarin aft the committee on rules, i th