Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-02-10
CONGRESSIONAL.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

CONGRESSIONAL.
Special Correspondence of the Ledger.
WASHINGTON CITY, February T.
The re-apportionment bill introduc-
ed by Mr.. Cox, of New York,
distributes the 301 congressman
provided for in it as follows:
Alabama 8, Arkansas 5, Califor-
MIA 5, Colorado /, Connecticut 4,
Delaware L, Florida l, Georgia 9,
Illinois 10, Indiana IL. Iowa 10, Kan
sas 6, Kentucky 10. Louisiana 6.
Maine 4, Maryland 6, Massachusetts,
IL, Michigan 10, Minnesota 5, Missis-
sippi Z. Missouri Is, Nebraska 3, Ne
vada l, New Hampshire 2, New Jer-
sey z, New YORK 81, North Carolina
8, Ohio 10, Oregon l, Pennsylvania
26, Rhode Island 2, South Carolina
6, Tennessee 6, Texas 10, Vermont 2,
Virginia 0, West Virginia 4. Wiscon-
sin 8. Under this proposed appor-
tion,nent the old slave states gain 8
and lose 2 congressman, the Middle
States will lose 8, the New England
States 3, and the Western States will
gain 10 and lose 2. Tnis is a net gain
to the slave states OF 6, due not per-
haps sc much to actual greater ratio
of increase as to previous efficient
counts. The North, however. will
continue, as hereto sore, to have more
representation than the South. The
present number in the House is con-
fessedly too great, ana yet this re-
apportiOnment will raise that num-
Der from 293 10 SOL. Mr.. COX was
forced to admit that half IF the men,
bers now sit too far from the Speaker
to hear. much less under stand what
is going on. If the House of Repre-
senratives were a debating society
there might be some force in this A.:
but, besides arguing policies, each
II fits 293 members has important
public and private business for his
state and constituency to attend to.
There is not SO much objection,
therefore, to be opposed to the small
proposed increased me mbership
Every previous apportionment has
eyentuated in a greater increase, and
it will be fortunate:if similar result.
are not now arrived at. The pro-
p"cSN HPpoi 10 DlSCo uptbil
a strictly mathematical calculation.
and avoids everything of q partisan
character. The ratio is one repre-
sentative for every 164,01S inhabi-
tants.
After considerable delay. the Nor
gan resolution denying the right of
the president of the Senate to count
the electoral vote was passed by a
vote of "A to l. The yeas included
Messrs. Allison, Blair, Booth, Conk-
ling, Davis of Illinois, IIoar and
Jones of Nevada. In the debate on
this resolution, Mr.. Conkling made
it perfect. clelr that while the pres
ident OF the Senate vas bound by his
oath to preserve the election certifi-
Gates transmitted to him inviolate,
to bring them into the presence OF
the two houses and to open them,
the constitution went back on HIN
after that and spoke of him no lon
ger. He was merely an agent, an or
gan for the authority fom which he
derived his functions. 1t was the
two houses alone that possessed jul
dicial authority to determine as to
the Identity and other characteristics
of electoral votes. The bill has also
passed the House, and is as follows
Resolved, BY the Senate, the House
concurring, thai the president of the
Senate is not invested by the consti-
tuition of the United States with the
right to count the votes of electors
for President and Vice-President OF
the United States so as to determine
what votes shall be received and
counted, or what votes shall be re-
jected, and that il is the duty of con
gress without delay to institute
measures to secure due and orderly
performance of said duty in future
Surveyors Convention.
To the Editor of the Mexico Ledger.
MEXICO. Mo-, February In thu
last issue of the LEDGER there appear
ed a call for a Surveyors Convention
at Moberly on the 18th and 10th insts
: There can be no objection to a socia
!, gathering of the surveyors. The,
have as much right to come together
discuss their interest and enjoy them
selves as any other class of society
but whatever may have been thu
malpractice under them, the direc
tions for surveying in the revised
statutes are plain enough. and Who'll
. ly without conflict with themselve
or the previous surveys of the Cnitet
I States Surveyor. whose work it il
+ their evident object to confirm ant
re-establiSh as far as practicable.
!, Section 1894 of the revised statute
gives directions for dividing section:
into halves; section 1895 into quar-
tiers section 1896 into eights, ant
section 1896 into siXteenths. al
t these apply to sections, whose quar-
ter section corners have been estab
I lished by a Deputy United State
Surveyor, and are still witnessed b,
- muniments placed for that purpCst
. by him. They also pertain to re
I establishments of such orner wher,
q they have been destroyed.
Section 1902 sets forth how de
stroyed quarter section corners az,
to be re-established.
=, Sections 1898 and 1899 relate to tn
= establishment of blank quarter sec
ton corners in the fractional section
on the north and west sides Of town
ships whore correspondent Unitet
States either exist or can b.
a re-established in the sections of tn
adjoining townships.
> And 7400 and 740l are to be applied
= to such fractional sections as hav,
been made so by claims, streams. SC.
!. and in whose boundaries and bank.
United States corresponding corner
2 were not placed by the United State
Deputy Surveyor. X.
Headlight Coal Oil.
, To the Editor of the Mexico Ledger.
=, MEXICO, Mo-, Feb. 81 notice il