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of New York will be reduced from "a to

The arbitrary feature of the apportion-
ment developed some years ago Wheh
California would have been entitled, ui!-
der the system which recognizes the
largest fraction, to an additional repre-
sentative. That fraction was about 6o,-
600 but the house of representatives took
into consideration the fact that Callfol-
MIA had a Chinese population of nearly
Sc, 600 lacking the right of suffrage, and
this consideration operated to deprive
California of her additional representa-
ton A question which will likely be
| raised in the discussion of the reappor-
tionment in the next congress is one tllat
| General Walker raised in 1881 when the
| last apportionment was under consldera-
tion. General Walker claimed that the
| Alabama paradox was conclusive PROOF
that the process employed in obtaining
the allotment of representatives was de-
fective and that it did not in fact "appor-
ton representatives among the several
states according to their respective num-
bers.n He claimed that the remalnders
left after the divisions had been made
should not be used in distributing the
additional representatives but rather the
ouOtients resulting from dividing the
} populations of the states by the increased
numbers of representatives. BY this sys-
TEN he claimed the population OF the aus
trictS formed in the state to when auul-
tional representatives were allotted would
fall as little below the average NUMBER
for the United States as possible; III oth-
> er words that the districts ultimately
formed from the states so increased Wouio
approximate as closely as possible II
= population to that of district formed by
dividing the total population of the Unit
ed States exactly by the proposed tota
! number of representatives. rms sugges
o ton was rejected by the forty-seVentl
= congress which passed the last appor
q tiOnment act.
p Thomas II. MCGEE, the assistant libra
9 ran of the senate and the author of Pro
f lection Echoes from the Capitol, tn
= book which was the subject of some par
l. tisan debate in the senate at its last ses
n sion. is now at work on most valuaDl
v index. 1t is an index of all the commit
n tee reports of the senate for the first cen
n turv of the American congress. Whel
completed it will make an enormous Vol
ume or possibly two volumes aggrega
q ting about 2000 pages. 1t will be invalu
O able for reference and in the study or IN
, problems which come before the commit
!. tees of congress. In consideration o
RI questions which nave been before COL
h gress in some form or other references t
early reports and valuable data can D
obtained by reference to this index.
4 An odd coincidence was recalled b
n the stories of ex-senator Spencer, of A
n ALBANIA, which | told in recent letter
n Senator Spencer's father was surgeo
e in the army and served in the war of Isl:
o During his term in the senate Gener;
4 Spencer was member of the cOmmittt
V on pensions and among the application
,e for special legislation which came b
A. fore the committee, and was referred
y him as a Subcommittee for examination
le was the application of man who IA
n been wounded in the battle of Lundy
- Lane and who had been treated on II
:. field and in the hospital by Surgeon Spe
n Ger, O'BRIEN-BAIN