Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-18
House of Representatives.

dS uuuuiSueu UuSlneSS ADJOURNED uQLll MOD
day.
House of Representatives
WAsHINaroN, Feb. H. Mr.. Springer moved
to reconsider the vote by which Colerick's
amendment to the apportionment bill was re-
iected yesterday. The amendment provides
the governor of any state may call a special
election for the election of representatives.
The house tabled the resolution, $50 to 104.
The yeas and nays were then ordered on Cole
rick's substitute, fixing the number of repre-
sentatives at 3l6. Rejected. Yeas 154, and
nays "a.
The question then required on the substi-
tute offered by Page, of California, providing
the house shall be composed OF 319 members.
This Page desired to withdraw, hut as it was
the number favored by the democrats, objec-
tion was made. Rejected. Yeas SO, and nays
14S.
The previous question was then ordered on
the final passage of the bill pending, which
Colerick of Indiana, moved to recommit
with instructions to the committee on census
to report a provision that in states where the
number of representatives Is changed, it shall
be lawful for the governor, after the state
shall have been redistrlcted, to provide for a
special election. The motion to recommit
was lost. Yeas 102; nays 142. The bill then
passed without division. 1t as follows:
Be it enacted, ETC.: That after the Sd of
March, 1883, the house of representatives
shall be composed of 325 members to be ap
portioned among the several states as follows,
THE apportionment was given in the GLOBE
yesterday morning.]
Sec. 2-That whenever q new state Is ad-
mitted into the union, the representative OF
representatives assigned 1t shall be In add
ton to the number 325.
Sec. 3-That In each state entitled under
this apportionment the number to which
such state may be entitled in the forty
eighth and each subsequent congress, shall
be elected by districts composed OF contigu-
GUS territory and containing as nearly as
practicable an equal number of Inhabitants,
and equal in number to the representatives
to which such state may be entitled in con-
gress, no one district electing more than one
representative; provided, that unless the legis-
lature of such state6hall otherwise provide
before the election of, such representative
shall take place as provided by law.
Where no change shall be hereby made in the
representation of state, then representatives
thereof to the Forty-eighth congress shall be
elected therein as now provided by law. If
the number as hereby provided for shall be
larger than it was before this change, then
the additional representative or representatives
allowed to said state under this apportionment
may be elected by the state at large, and the
other representatives to which the state Is
entitled by districts as now prescribed by the
laws In said state; and If the number hereby
provided for shall In any state be less than it
was before the change hereby made, then the
whole number to such state hereby provided
for shall be elected at large, unless
provided or shall otherwise provide before the
time fxed by law for the next election of rep
resentatlves therein.
Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts ncon-
sistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Memorials against the treatment of Jews in
Russia and polygamy In Utah were pre-
sesented.
A night session was ordered for Monday in
stead OF Tuesday.
The house went into committee OF the
whole, Mr.. Horr of Michigan in the chair,
upon private claims. The first bill on the cal
eDdar was one authorizing the restoration of
Thomas Little to the army with the rank of
captain.
Mr.. McCook, N. Y, in opposing the bill
sent to the clerks desk to have read the aM-
davit of Thomas Little relating to the charge
made against him and which was taken from
the files OF the war department. The language
of the affidavit was so gross many ladies left
the galleries and the reading was stopped BY
objections from Springer, Ills, and Moore,
Tenn, on the ground it was obscene, and it
was stricken from the record. The affidavit,
however, had Its effect and by an overwhelm-
ing vote the enacting clause of the bill was
stricken out thus defeating the measure.
The next bill was one authorizing the pres
ident to place VIM. B. Chambliss, late major
Fourth cavalry, upon the retired list. On
this bill the Democrats refrained from voting
thus leaving the committee without quo
rum, whereupen the committee rose.
The recommendation of the committee as
to the bill relative to Thos. Little, was agreed
to by the house and the enacting clause was
stricken out.
Mr. Valentine, Neb., reported the agricultu-
raj appropriation bill. Committee Of the
whole.
The speaker laid before the house message
from the president in further compliance COM
pliance with the House resolution calling for
Correspondence respecting the war in Perm
transmitting the report of the secretary of
state and accompanying documents. Re-
ferred.
Also q letter from the secretary of war
transmitting the progress Of the report of the
Mississippi river commission. Referred.
The house, after several roll calls, adjourned
until tomorrow.