The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-12-31
INGALLS, SCHEME.
HE WILL CARRY HIS FIGHT TO THE
UNITED STATES SENATE.

UNITED STATES SENATE.
If he is Defeated for Reelection he viii
Allege that the Kansas House of Rep
rcsentatires is Illegally Constituted.
TOPEKA, December. 26.-The Sena
tLrial contest in Kansas IS at this time
attracting much attention, owing to the
prominence of Senator ingalls,. The
Times recently gave an account Of the
preliminary steps being taken for con
test to be made in the United States
Senate. An interview has jeen haG
with gentleman Of national reputation.
who fully andfreely expressed his views
upon this suhjest. anal gave confrmatory
evidence as to the conspiracy revealed
by the Times. For political reasons his
name will lie withheld. He is in posi-
ton to know absolutely the workings in
the inner circles Of politics. This gentle
man said:
The struggle for the Senatorial sue
cession to John J. ingalls, bids fair to
outrival in stubborn fighting. in persis-
tent of1ort, and in fertile expedients all
others in the history of such elections.
Gathered around and supporting Senator
ingalls, in his offort at reelection are
some Of the strongest and most active
minds in the West, men who for quar-
ter Of century have so managed the
politics of the State that Kansas had
outstrippcd all other Northern States in
piling up majoritics for Republican can
didates in Presidential years. And
while ingalls, would not be their first
choice in the event Of an open field and
fair fight, they recognize that his re. elec-
ton means an extraordinary triumph
for them and continued supremacy in
the management Of their party.
''The Kansas Legislature as now con-
stituted consists Of 40 Senators and l2S
members Of the House Of Representa-
tlves, Classifying them politically there
are 3S Republican Senators, l Democrat,
and there is one vacancy to be filled at a
special election December 30. The va
cancy in all probability will be filled by
al Alliance man, instructed against the
reelection Of ingalls,, so that the Senate
will stand SO Republicans, l Democrat
and Alliance Senator. The House
contains 81 Alliance, 9 Democratic and
2S Republican members. This gives
an Alliance vote of 90, Republican
voDof &C and a Democratic vote of 10.
There is no doubt that four Of the ten
Democratic votes are for Ingalls, to the
bitter end, and that the very great pro-
liabilities are that as against distinctive
Alliance candidate, all ten Of the Demo-
cratic votes will be gwen to ingalls,.
The Alliance people to bridge over
this difficulty could secure FIVE of the
Democratic votes by taking a candidate
thstronS Democratic antecedents, and
one who upon all political questions, ex-
cept silver currency and tariff, would
range himself on the Democratic side of
the chamber. Such aIelection would
-gEfFe t1esn fti72s y VOTES, if they couldhold
their men; but here one Of their main
difficulties would occur. Their total
number of members is composed of
mixed and diverse materials. Nearly
two-thirds have heretofore been active
Republicans. Seven of their number are
Knights Of Labor and are free lances in
politics.
IA Aain, the Republican leaders allege
that the House ofRcpresentatives ought
to contain under the plain terms of the
Constitution. IA members instead Of
l22, that nineteen counties are disfan-
chised by the legislative apportionment
of 1885. This claim is based upon a
provision ofthe Constitution of the State
that declares that the number of Ee-
representatives. and Sena tors shall be reg
ulated by law, but that it shall never
exceed l2S Representatives and 40 Sen
ators. From and after the adoption of
the amendment the House Of Represen-
tatives shall admit one member from
each county in which at least $50 legal
votes were cast at the reXt preceding
general election, and each organized
county in which less than 200 legal
votes were cast at the next preceding
general election shall be attached to and
constitute a part of the Representatives
district Of the county lying next ada
cent to it on the east.' This amend
ment to the Constitution was adopted at
the general election in 1873.
In the apportionment bill Of 1885 no
provision was made and no margin left
for counties orangized after that time,
the whole number Of 12S members being
assigned to counties then organized. 1t
is now asserted that the true censtruc-
lion of this amendment is, that as the
Constitution expressly provides in an
other section that each organized county
shall have at least one Representative,
that the first part of the amendment
was direction to the Legislature IL
making an apportionment, and that the
second was intended to give each of the
new cornties a Representative 10 the
session Of the Legislature succeeding its
and this without reference
to the apportionment in force at the
time.
''Siuce 1885 nineteen counties have
been organized and are now
and have been since 1885 excluded
from representation on the floor Of the
House. The matter was recently
brought before the Supreme Court of
the State by an application for man
lamus against the board Estate canvas
scrs on behalf Of a person elected to the
House in one OF the excluded counties to
compel the board to issue to him GER
tiiicate Of election as member Of the
House. The Supreme Court, following
some old decision refused 10 grant the
writ. This application was urged by
two Of the strongest lawyers in the
State. and their, arguments are held by
the public generally to be conclusive Of
The question.
Another argument supporting this
is founded on Chapter 81 of
L. g ,.t.