The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-12-18

Mr.. Fisk remarked that the con, mittee
(otAshich-he was chairman) who reported
me bill had not agreed on any precis. nufn
Der but, consulting The opinion OF Others
rather than his own he would move IN fit
the blank with number not as large rs ne
should wish. The precise amount of ,he
population of the u ). by Tn. present cen
sus. could not b. ascertaiDed but raii
onatesimate might be made Calculating
the ratio OF increase for the 10 years since
iooV tine same rate as~ten years proceed
ing uiat period. me present population my
be estimated nc about seven millions A. p
ratio ct one Representative for every 4s Oo0
the number OF Representative would t.,en
be l55 1t, however, that population shoald
reach 100000 souls as mauv believed the
number OF Representatives would amount ~
100. tf't should exceed7 500 oGO and reach
5000 COO, rs some calculated it wni,l,
tins humber would give ~ Representa-
tives.
The question was taken on filling the
blank With the ratio OF Is 600 and lost.
For this ratio SO
Against 1T Sc
Mr.. W. Atston said as no number out a.
600 had been mentioned. and the committee
mad expressed their dsapprobation of .la.
number, he ielt inclined TO propose larger
one, although he had been willing in order
20 unite -ith others, TO take the ratio pro-
posed by Mr. Fisk. 1.-THE ratio Tell to les,
IMAM ID or SO eco this body would become
TOO numerous to transact business. If gen
tiemen would turn their attention 10 the IN
crease OF the 10 years previous To 1900 they
would be satisfied that, with parable, in
crease since that period less ratio than
$4,000 would afford nearly 200 members
lie SAID he felt convinced that numerous
body would no. af,rd more talent than
smaller body. II the Congressional district.
were larger, the chance of obtaining men of
talents would be quite as great At least as IN
smaller districts. One advantage of large
districts in che Southern states he said
would be tot put end 10 the mode OF cleo
pioneering ptactised in some of diem il
would then be impossible tor the candidates
10 noe through them as thev nov did NJ.
a. SAID he was himself clearly of opinion
mat business could be done as we'll and as
satisfactorily with one hundred as wi h two
hundred members. He therefore moved to
Mi The blank III the bill with SO, 600.
| Mr. boyd made some remarks which
were not distinctly heard. in favor of a small
ratio From the terms of the constitution.
making $4,000 the minimum he drew the
inference mat the ,llustrious trainers of tina,
instrument had Considered $4,000 as the
most proper ratio He adverted TOO to the
safety produced by having many counsellors
"a small body might be led away 20 act
rashly by passion. which would not have the
same operation TN a larger body
MIR. Nacon said he was decidedly of ON;
mon that the ratio ought to be fixed. before
the result Of the census was known H.haJ
no ooJecuon to moderate increase of he
number OF members; if they amounted TO
So many that one side OF the House could not
near the other speak, debate was al an
emu, and the purposes of deliberate iegisJi /.
ton defeated. He should have liked The
OIL better. he said, il il had declared that
the House or Representatives should hereaf
Ter consist OF certain number of members.
ana h@d iett the apportionment then to be
maze according co the population. On the
SUBJECT oi eiecuuneering, ne SAID il became
him AT least 10 say that the portion os The
people who sent HIM here had not been con
ceTned IN It. Whatever might have been
the PTacnce elsewhere, so far as concerned,
ms constituents, There had been no going
ABOUT or naranguing And On the subject of
e!ectoneering, SAID he, Wherever the oeo
pie are Tree, there will be electioneering -
IL belongs to tree government Possibly dit
ie'e"' parts OF the Country may differ as TO
the mode In some, men go themselves a
bout electioneering; in others their friends
do II Tor them In somc, newspaper publ,
cations help an election; in others they DIES
troy 1t. In some places / nave heard, the
sacred pulpit is not free from it; in others
d dlVine would be DESTROYED that would at
tempt It. There was not more electionecr
ing South. Mr. " belle we'd, than elsewhere .
certain ne was that candidates could not
there spend the sums OF money which he had
beard ot being spent elsewhere in an eIecti
on lie concluded by saying, he was in ia
vor ct moderate increase of Representa-.
iuves He was not afraid tina from mul.
/ utude 81 counseliors nothing would be done ::
1t was quite as much to- be feared from too
few lhat they would act rashly.
Mir Smile. urging the importance of this
question. the necessity of mature reflection.
and ms own doubts as to the proper ratio.
moved that the committee rise, report pro
gress and ask leave to sit again.
! Inc Committee rose, So 49, and OBJ
tanned leave to- sir again.
! FOREIGN COINS.
he House resolved Itself into a commit
tee OF The whole on the kiI from the Senate
TO suspend the second section of The act for
regulating foreign coins.
Ahe bill went through committee ofthe
whole, and was reported TO the House. The
question occurred-onail the bill be read a
third times
The following section from the act of
February 9 1898. is that proposed to be
suspended:
| Sec 2. Pyovided ai7pays, and be It further I'm
6e'ea' !nat 1T the expiration Of three years mex
ensuing the time when the coinage Of goh and