Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-02-05
EASTERN INTELLIGENCE.
CONSOLIDATION OF THE AP-
PORTI0NMENT BILL.
Probable Purchase Of a Steam
Whaler.
SEARCH FOR THE STEAMER
JEANETTE.
A Murderer Found and Arrested.
Especial to the sExT1NEL.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The Apportion-
ment bill was considered. Cox offered an
amendment fixing the number of Repre-
sentatives at 307. Ordered printed and
considered pending. Sherwin, member OF
the Census Committee, took the floor on
the bill. There was no reason that the
annortionment should not be made at this
session since all the data were in on when
to make a calculation. Comparing the
various bills which had been presented, ne
showed at 307, the number first suggested
by Cox, the Democratic States would gam
eight Representatives and lose two, a gain
of six. The Republican States would gain
ten and lose eight, a net gain of two. At
the number selected by the majority of the
Committee, 311, the Democratic States
would gain twelve and lose nom The
Republican States would gain ten and lose
four, a net gain of six. AT $40, the num-
Der recommended by the minority, the
Democratic and Republican States would
each gain thirteen Representatives. He
argued in support of the latter bill, con-
tending that mathematically as well as
politically it were exact justice to every
portion Of the country, for that reason it
should commend itself to every man on
the floor.
Crowley opposed an increase OF Con-
gressmen under Section 2 of the Four
tenth Amendment. Voters as well as
numbers nigh. be taken in account in ap-
portioning representation, and whenever
any State denied any male over the age OF
81 the right to vote, in his judgment that
State should be denied representation in
just the proportion in which, it denied such
right to vote. Massachusetts, and Connec-
ticut had an improved educational qualifi-
cation which deprived many of that right.
Delaware, Georgia, New Hampshire, Penn
sylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia had added a property qualif-
cation, and the allegation had been made
that in the Southern States the voters had
been disfranohised by violence and intimi-
dalton. He criticized the bill of the ma
jority on the ground that it did not pro-
vide for q continuance of the district sys-
tenn, and argued that to change that sys-
tenn would not be good craftsmanship or
wise legislation.
Ray denied that his State imposed a
property qualification. Thompson of Ken
lucky asserted that the district system
was provided for in q separate law, and
there was no need of re-enacting it. He
alluded to Section 2 of the Fourteenth
He asserted that it was
impossible to enforce it by legislation in
any practicable way. He explained the
fact that the Southern States had cast a
smaller number of votes in 1880 than in
1876, by the statement that, in the latter
year, under the lead Of a New York states
man, the Democrats were marching to
while in 1880 they were expecting
Howe thought that an Apportionment
bill founded ON the last vote Of the people
would meet the requirements Of the Con-
.stitution better than one based upon the
The whole number of votes cast
in 38 States was 1921, 900, and the average
number of votes cast for Congressman
317,123. If representation was fixed
at 81, as proposed by the Majority bill,
the average number would be 20, 896. He
then proceeded to compare the number of
members which were accorded to the
Southern States by the bill, with those to
which they we're entitled: Mississippi was
accorded seven members, whereas, on the
basis of her vote, she would be only en-
titled to four. Alabama was allowed eight,
where it was only entitled to three. 1t
got under this bill a Congressman for
every 5000 votes, or 16, 1000 less than the
average required to elect q Congressman.
Georgia was allowed ten representatives
entitled to only FIVE.
Search for the Jeanette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.--The Secretary of
the Navy to-day received advices from New
Bedford, Mass, containing assurances that
in the event of a decision in favor Of pur-
a steam whaler, to be dispatched
by the U. s. Government in search of the
Arctic exploring steamer Jeanette, that a
suitable whaler, now at San Francisco, can
be purchased. The price demanded could
not be ascertained, it being deemed i'm
practicable to make the figure public until
the estimates and propositions which are
being prepared at the Navy Department
for transmission to Congress are CON-
Arrest OF Albert Orthwaite.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. At has just trans
pired that a mar named Albert Orthwaite
arrested here on Sunday night on a
charge of numbering James Burns, a
miner, near Hugo, Colorado, a short time
and has been sent back in charge Of a
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