The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-18
HOUSE.

W NOhs lCA1ASSI hlOf GA
to reconsider the vote by which the
Colerick amendment to the appor-
tionment bill was rejected yester-
day. The amendment provides that
the governor of any state may call a
special election when the legislature
fails to redistrict the state before
the election of representatives
The House tabled the resolution
13e to ia.
The yeas and nays were then or
dered on Colerick's substitute, fix
ing the number of representatives
at 316. Rejected-nays ia, yeas 81.
The question then required on the
substitute offered by Page (Cal.),
providing that the House shall be
composed of 319 members. This
Page decided to withdraw, but as it
was favored by a number of demo
Gratis, objection was made. It was,
however, rejected-yeas 80, nays 14S.
The previous question was then
ordered on the final passage of the
bill, pending which Colerick Qnd.),
moved to recommit it with instruc-
lions to the committee on census to
report provision. that in a state,
where the number of representa-
lives is reduced, it shall be lawful
for the governor, after the state
shall have been redistricted, to pro-
vide for a special election.
The motion to recommit was lost
yeas LOT, nays 142.
The bill then passed without di-
vision. 1t is as follows:
Section BE 1t enacted, etc, That
after the Sd of March, 1888, the
House of Representatives shall be
composed Of 325 member.
The apportionment is the same as
heretofore telegraphed.
Sec. 2-That whenever a new
state is admitted to the Union the
representative or representatives
assigned it shall be in addition to the
number of 325.
Sec. 3-That in each state en-
titled, 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 com
posed Of contiguous territory and
containing as nearly as possible an
equal number Of inhabitants. and
equal in number to the representa-
tives to which such state may be
entitled in Congress. No one dis
trict will be allowed more than one
representative, unless the legiSla-
ture of such state shall otherwise
provide, before the election of such
representatives shall take place as
provided by law, Where no change
shall take place as provided by law,
where no change shall be hereby
made in the representation of
q state three representatives
thereof of the Forty eighth
Congress shall be elected therein as
now provided by law. If the num-
Der, as hereby provided for, shall be
larger than before this change,
then the additional representatives
under this appOrtionment may be
elected by the state at large, and
where representative to which the
state is entitled by districts, as now
prescribed by law in such state.
and if the number hereby provided
for shall in any state be less than it
was before the change hereby made,
such state shall otherwise provide
for the change before the time fixed
by law for the next election of re-
representatives.; all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent Herewith are
hereby repealed.
Memorials against the treatment
of Jews in Russia and polygamy in
Utah were presented.
A night session was ordered for
Monday instead of Tuesday.
The House went into commit
tee of the whole, HOar (Mich.).
in the chair, upon the private
claims. The first bill on the calen-
dar was one authorizing the restO-
ration of Thomas Little to the army
with the rank of captain.
Nc Cook On. y in opposing the
bill, sent to the clerks desk to have
read the affidavit of Thomas Little.
which was taken from the files of
war department. The language Of
the affidavit was so gross that many
ladies left the galleries, and the
reading was stopped by objections
from Springer (IIls.) and Moore
(Tenn.) on the ground that it was
obscene, and it was stricken from
record.
The affidavit, however. had the
effect, and by an Overwhelming
vote, the enacting claSe of the bill
was stricken out, thus defeating the
measure.