Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-07-05


are as free and fair and election
returns as honest in Mississippi and
South Carolina as in New Jersey and
Kansas.
THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE.
1t will be noted that more votes
were cast for Representative in the
Third Tennessee district in 1886
than were cast in the ten Georgia dis
tricts in the same year, while in the
first Tennessee district the number
was only la less than the total for
the ten Georgia districts.
Now, as to the weight in legisla-
ton and in conducting the National
Government that is implied i'm these
figures. In the Fiftieth Congress
Georgia furnished the chairmen of
the following House committees !:
Elections; Post-Ofices and POST
Roads; Education; Reform in Civil
Service; and one member each for
the Committees on Ways and Means:
Appropriations; Judiciary; Coinage.
Weights, and Measures; Commerce !:
Foreign Affairs; Territories; Rail-
ways and Canals; Manufactures :
Mines and Mining; Pacific Railroads:
LABOR: Patents; Pensions; Revision
OF the Laws; Expenditures IN th-
State departments; Account: Enrolled
Bills, and Census-four chairmen and
nineteen other members of commit
tees.
In the same Congress South Carroll
na furnished the chairmen of the
Committees on Public Buildings and
Grounds, District of Columbia, and
Labor Troubles in Pennsylvania
and one member each of the follow
ing committees; Banking and Cur.
rency; Coinage, Weights, and Meas.
ures; Foreign Affairs; Military AT
fairs; Naval affairs; Indian Affairs
| Territories Patents; Private Lane
Claims; Revision of the Laws
Reform in the Civil Service; Election
OF President, Vice President, anC
Representatives, and Census-thre,
chairmen and thirteen other mem
bers of committees.
Mississippi furnished the chairman
of the Committee on Levees and I'm
provements of the Mississippi River
and one member each for the follow
ing committees: Elections (Mr
Barry, whose district had returne,
3, OS6 votes) Rivers and Harbors
Agriculture; Foreign Affairs; Mill
tary Affairs Post-Office and Post
Roads; Public Lands; Indian Al
fairs; Pensions; War Claims; Expen
ditures in Navy Department; Expen
ditures in Post-Otfice Department
| Il - D.. i
and Indian Depreciation Claims-on
chairman and fourteen other mem
bers OF committees.
. New Jersey furnished the chairman
of Militia, and one member each {
the following committees: Coinage
Weights, and Measures; Agriculture
Foreign Affairs; Railways and Canals
Manufactures; Public Buildings an
= Grounds; Labor; Militia; Invalid
| Pensions; Election of Presiden
Vice President, and Representatives
? and Indian Depreciation Claims-or
) chairman and eleven other member
J of committees.
5 The twenty-four Representative
: from the three,States Georgia, Mi
: sissippi and South Carolina, VIII
q represented an aggregate returne
S vote of 113,345, filled eight chat
r manships and forty-six other plac,
on House committees in the Fiftiet
II Congress. In the same Congress I'll
e State of New York, with thirty-fol
e Representative backed by a tot
s returned vote OF 930,S37, filed fl,
i chairmanships-the only one
It Importance being that of Census
, and sixty-two other members
l., committees.
" This was an average of ~ commi
o tee places for each Representati
II from the three States first name
II the average vote of each distri
being 4.723, and an average of ]
$ committee places for each Represe
lie tative in the State of New Yo
q where the average total vote .
n district was "a ,4S1, or more thi
Di seven times as great. The first thr
IS States had two members of Il
ID elections committee: New York h,
p none. They had one representati
W on Ways and Means; New York h
&c none. They had three members
K, Foreign Affairs; New York had
one member.
I'd Now, Mr.. Speaker, / wish to c
he attention to the increase OF the We