The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-12-19

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VINO Cannot ba Coansed UntIsr the
fsurfeenfh Amendments.
In the House, on Tuesday, there
was spirited debate on the apportion.
ment bill. After what SheIlaharger
ana Garfield had said, Mr.. Cox, OF
New York, recognized the fourteenth
amendment as paramount insisted
that, as a consequence of their logic
the House should take the Census
Bureaus statement. That statement
shows that the male citizens above
twenty-one years of age whose right to
vote IS denied or abridged on other
grounds than rebellion or other crime,
have not been constitutionallv de
tucted from the ratio OF the fractions
IN the bills before the House Mr..
Cox appealed TO the majority TO stand
hv their fourteenth amendment. The
House seemed to 90 upon the idea
that only the disfranchised should BE
deducted from The ratio. That 10 not
the Constitution. The fourteenth
amendment saws that when the
right 10 vote, &c. Is denied TO anv
OF the male inhabitants OF such State
he'ng twentv-ore years OF age ana
citizens ot the United States. or in any
way abridged, except for rebellion or
crime, the basis OF representation shall
be reduced IN the proportion which the
number of such male citizens shall
hear to the whole number OF male
citizens twentt-one wears Of age in
such State Mr. Cox cortenied that
the number 10 be deducted was more
than the number OF the DISTINGUISHED
This gathered around him the House
On both sides. while he ciphered by
the rule of three and the Constitution.
Rhode Island. ior instance the dis
'ranchisei nv the census returns 10
2S25;' he males over q, 43 996:the whole
population 2lI3j3. Bv The Constltu.
ton and arithmetic ID 2S should be
deducted from the whole numh-r o.
population. leaving 203 625. Deduct
ing from 203 100, the lowest rat o.
1929. lett only 6T,4O6, being less
han the ratio fixed bv the hill OF
Mercur or other bills. Ohio. bv the
same -lle. would lose one Congress
man, and Massachusetts comes witt in
tour hundred Of losing another by the
rule o., the two bills liking two hundred
and eighty as the number OF Congress
men. M Cox conteHdei that as the
Democracy had accepted the amend
ments, and had ALWAYS stood by the
unamended Constitution, It vas
fraud Tor the Republicans TO wr,ggie
and sqnirn ABOUT their own amend
nents when such amendments cut
down Massachusetts. Rhode lsianf
ana OhIc. The fourteenth amend
ment vas meant 70 force the South TO
AXE negro suffrage or lose representa-
ton. They took It. Now tue Radi,
Gals desire 70 AVOID Is effects on New
England. They -quirm before the
figures Of their own creation. They
are hoist Ov their own petard. They
depart rom their own amendments.
and ne Democracy -tanis by the Con.
sl!tuuon and It's amendments. Qrlte
4 CONSERVATION vas rreated by Mr.
Cox ti-urrs, rs no Republican had
c,ntemp atrt these results OF the
.unr' eenth Amendment II Kentucky
VT Georgia had laws prohibiting those
VINO can -ead Or wr,Ie or yho ion I
own zeal estate 81 a cer'aln amount
VINO iuuhrs but that Congress. under
me fourteenth amendment, would have
Deducted sucn ii-ranchisei persons
rom me ratio L 20, why not the
Germans ana Irish Of Rnoie Island
and the ljterate Of Massachusetts, for
the same reason