Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-02-16

sehtation from tDe Sniati States. III. a man
Will go intoa graveyard 10 see spirits, he can
always discern them.
There is no difficulty in cmiuring up ina
ginary dangers, where many in reality exist.
1t is sometimes very convenient way 'ni rca-
sonlnS To carrya point, for he Mr.. II y had
known the period, when, il it was desired 10
Keep up Il standing army, an alarm could be
sounded OF invasion by the Emperor of Rus
STA from beyond the Cape of Good Hope
The House had heard much exposition of late
on the subject of first principles hut il was
somewhat remarkable that they We're always
exactly suited Ia the fractions of that state
whose member urged them. But there was
much sympathy and feeling for the nagnanim-
Gus STATE of Rhode Island, and a gentleman
from Massachusetts, yesterday, tsIr. BayIies,l
Informed us that that state paid one fifth al
the commercial revenue to the United States.
he Mr. H.} had always understood, however,
and he believed 1t WAS pretty generally uu-
derstood, that impOsts were paid by The con-
sumers. And would il be pretended that the
state of Rhode Island consumed one fifth Of
these imported articles? If so, they must
wear very fine coats and drink tea and coIiet.
most prodigiously! The smaller states should
recoiect that they have au unequal power in
the Senate, and that this was concession in
their favor by the larger states, when the con
mise. They could certainly have but little
tn complain otto be represented according tn
numbers in this House, If in a co-ordniale
branch of the government, state of $4,000
inhabitants has an equal vote with Il state lIav-
ing 100000. BY lowering the ratio you add
nothing TO the weight of representation from
the small states, because i'm the same proper
ton do you increase the representation from
the larger states Power is comparative if
| all were Sampsnns, no would be dsiin-
guished for strength. IL all were wealthy.
there would ave no rich men. And if all We're
orators of the first class. the great orator of
Baltimore would not he spoken of. He. MIR.
II. would he glad 80 accommodate the state of
Rhode Island, but he could not consent Ia do
Il ut the expense of filling the House with an
announcement number, and the old states
should remember that their population will
probably remain nearly stationary for the next
ten years. Yet the new states NAV perhaps
increase, some at least fourf0Id, before the
next Census, and they will be bound TO abide.
until that time by the apportonment which
shall now be made.
FRIDAY FEB. 1, 1872.
The House having resumed the unfinished
business OF yesterday, the apporiionment bin
Mr.. Ross's motion to rccommit the same with
instructions TO strike out 10000 and insert d.
goo, and mir. TAYLoR's motion To amend
those instructions by inserting the word secei,
IN lieu oi the word tuo, being under cunsiaeri-
ton
question of order arose on the prnpriety
of receiving for consideration the pro,,oscd
amendment, in which Messrs Randolph. Reid,
Smith, of Md. fright, Ed,rards, of n. C.
HeTr'ck, and Ross took part; when
The SPEAKER decided that the motion of
Mr.. TAYLOR was in order.
Mr. bn, L..
tons. The first sentiment which our Repor-
ter distinctly caught, was that OF extreme IN
Willingness that either Delaware or Rhode
Island should be left with but one member on
the floor. He did not say that he should
makea proposition such as he was about to sug-
Sest but he said he bad no surt of doubt that
the constitution not only permits but requires
that both those states should have two mem
bers on this floor. He did not feel himself
Zeaot on the subject before the House, eitheron
one side or the other. He did not think that
the nation would be ruined by The house be-
ing so organized as to consist Of two hundred
or of three hundred members. The ge-
neral business of the House would still
go TN. On great questions involving the
Datiopa! interest, the decisions Of the house
might perhaps he better from numerous
body than froma limited one: on the other
there was a large proportion Ofthc business OF
the house which could he better done by a
small number than by IL larger unr, SC Mr.. l..
then proceeded to- state his view Of a PROPOSE
ton which the house might adopt, should it
think proper, though he did not mean 10
movcit, believing that sucha motion would
he useless. He clearly thought, that The con
stitutIon, III describing as the rule Of rcprcsen-
tatlon, that II shall he apportioncd among the
states according to numbers, did make it the
1utN lf ftp nuIcts To
ment as would correspond most nearly with
tile numbers, rs ascertaned by the census.
IT there he any rule by which Representa-
tivcs can be made to represent as nearly as can
be the whole number of the population, that
rule il became the duty orthe h0tsr to ADOPT
| and much more did it become their dnfv
when by au application of it scarcely any
state would be left with single representa-
tive only. The &C! passed by both houses Of
Congress in 791. and rejected by the PTesj-
dent of the United States, will slight mo
diicatiOn for obviating the constitutional OIL
lection 20 it, would produce advantages which
no other plan could produce. It would eoa-
BILE the house distinctly to determine, what
was the number whicli convenience would
admit, and which, hcing determined upon,
would enable thein to reconcile objects other
wise Incompatible, namcty, To retain the pre-
sent representations Of The small states, and
at the same time make the whole number Of
Representatives pretty nearly what they wish
ed. The plan iheD would br nearly this -
Determining OF the number ofrepreseuiati,e
the whole general population in representa-.
tive numbers should be divided by this num-
her-thus asccrtaining the ratio of represent
tation, and the number 0f representatives
which each state would have, ADD then
what would be the aggregate ofihe whole. The
Complementary numbcr--the number Of mem