On verso: "For Grandmother Lambert."]]>
Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon, the fortieth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1903-1911), welded massive control over house rules as Chairman of the Rules Committee and had unlimited power to appoint people to all house committees. Cannon used his exceptional powers to control the divergent sects in the Republican party in the early nineteen hundreds, thereby appointing only conservative minded committeemen and undermining the progressive Republicans. On March 17, 1910, however, a coalition of progressive Republicans and 142 Democrats took absent Cannon supporters by surprise and succeeded in removing Cannon as Chairman of the Rules Committee, also taking away his power to appoint committee members.]]>
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